South
WHEN 25 May-5 June WHERE Bath TEL +44 (0)1225 463362 WEB
www.bathmusicfest.org.uk HIGHLIGHTS Joanna MacGregor, Arve Henriksen, Britten Sinfonia: MacMillan, MacGregor (25 May); Ute Lemper: Last Tango in Berlin (28 May); Heath and Navarra Quartets: Mendelssohn, Brahms (29 May); Dufay Collective: O Virgo splendens (29 May); Scholtes-Jannsens Piano Duo: Debussy, Ravel, Lutos√awski (1 June); Arte Chorale Moscow: Stravinsky Les Noces, Vespers (2 June); Tokyo Quartet: Haydn, Szymanowski (2 June); Alina Ibragimova: Bach Violin Sonatas and Partitas (4 June).
BRIGHTON No one could ever accuse Brighton Festival of unwillingness to think outside the box. Into guest director shoes previously fi lled by artist Anish Kapoor and composer Brian Eno steps Burmese politician Aung San
festival chair: Joanna MacGregor oversees the multi- themed Bath Festival
Suu Kyi with a programme ‘celebrating themes of freedom of expression, liberty and the power of the individual voice in society’. (Cue a keenly argued book and debate strand, as well as a revival of a Pinter-inspired, site-specifi c theatre in Hove Town Hall and
police cells.) Aung San Suu Kyi’s passion for Western classical music fi nds a powerful resonance in a concert performance of Beethoven’s operatic hymn to freedom, Fidelio – Adam Fischer conducting the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment with
It’s not hard to understand why this festival has become well known to music lovers as one of the most inspiring in the UK’s musical calendar.” Paul Lewis
soprano Janice Watson. There’s more Beethoven too from Leif Ove Andsnes, Stephen Hough and the Heath Quartet. With choral Dove, Trevor Pinnock’s Purcell, Steven Isserlis and Joshua Bell’s Brahms, and Jardin Flambeaux’s Fire Garden Show, Brighton 2011 blazes brightly. WHEN 7-29 May WHERE Brighton, Sussex TEL +44 (0)1273 709709 WEB
www.brightonfestival.org HIGHLIGHTS Janice Watson, OAE/Adam Fischer: Beethoven Fidelio (8 May); Pinnock and Friends: Bach, Handel, Purcell (12 May); Leif Ove Andsnes: Brahms, Schoenberg, Beethoven (15 May); Christopher Maltman, Joseph Middleton: Fauré, Hahn, Schubert (19 May); Stephen Hough: JanáΩek, Scriabin (20 May); City of Birmingham SO/ Festival Chorus: Dove There was a Child, Elgar (22 May); Joshua Bell, Steven Isserlis, Academy of St Martin in the Fields: Brahms, Haydn, Mendelssohn (27 May).
8–21 May
CHIPPING CAMPDEN MUSIC FESTIVAL 2011
“It’s an extraordinary
achievement for the Festival to have come so far so quickly.” Julian Lloyd-Webber
Other artists include: CHARLES ROSEN,
NICOLA BENEDETTI, BORIS BEREZOVSKY, MARK PADMORE
Tel 01386 849018
www.campdenmusicfestival.co.uk
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