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In Britten's Violin Concerto we hear all of that composer's hallmarks: recurring drama, daring virtuosity, and searing harmonies. With this performance the brilliant soloist Daniel Pioro joins the canon of leading violinists to have played Britten's iconic work at the Aldeburgh Festival.

Elizabeth Watts joins the orchestra in Mahler鈥檚 Fourth Symphony, his sunniest. The whole work arises from a simple child-like song, 鈥淭he heavenly life鈥�, that the composer wrote a decade before the symphony itself. It is a work of tremendous, almost celestial, beauty.

In similar fashion, Judith Weir began Forest 鈥渨ith nothing but the opening melody in mind. Nearly everything in the piece has grown from the tiny musical seeds encountered in the opening bars, and the composition has unfolded in a particularly natural and organic way. On reaching the conclusion I felt rather like a fairy-tale character pressing deeper and deeper into a mysterious prospect of trees鈥�.
During the interval, Martin Handley will be joined by Sir Roger Wright, outgoing chief executive of Britten Pears Arts, to select some significant Aldeburgh moments.

Live from Snape Maltings Concert Hall

Presented by Martin Handley

Judith Weir: Forest
Britten: Violin Concerto
G. Mahler: Symphony No.4

Elizabeth Watts (soprano)
Daniel Pioro (violin)
Ryan Wigglesworth (conductor)
麻豆社 Scottish Symphony Orchestra