Britten Studio News Today

From thundering Thorvaldsdóttir to late-night Bach, it’s a standout year for Britten’s music festival, while at the ROH Jonas Kaufmann made a subdued Werther

Masterpieces made over, reimagined and reborn beside the Suffolk sea. Classical music review by Boyd Tonkin

Sarah Angliss and Ross Sutherland’s taut tale of an 18th-century ‘giant’ and the doctor who wants his body for research is vividly realised in this Aldeburgh festival opener, with tenor Karim Sulayman towering in the lead role

Pianist Malcolm Martineau marshals ten committed singers for the complete song cycles. Classical music/opera review by David Nice

<strong>Editorial:</strong> It may seem staid – to some. But the music played at the Wigmore Hall, and at vital venues like it, stirs the soul

© Philip Vile Text description provided by the architects. Aldeburgh Musics new creative campus at Snape Maltings opened to the public on May 9th. The project, part of a phased development of grade 2 listed 19th century maltings buildings at the edge of the Suffolk marshes, brings a range of derelict granaries and kilns into use as rehearsal and occasional public performance spaces grouped around a communal foyer. The centrepiece of the project is a new build orchestral rehearsal room, the Bri...