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Aldeburgh Festival 2026: Welcome to the Orchestra

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

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A rip-roaring tour of the orchestra and a Welcome to Ipswich: two of Britten’s most joyful and energetic works. In the last two years of his life, Britten experienced an astonishing burst of creativity. From chamber pieces to songs to a full-blown cantata, he wrote some of his most enduringly popular and vigorous works while seriously weakened by illness. Welcome Ode was his final work, composed for the Queen’s visit to Ipswich in her Jubilee Ye...

Program

Benjamin Britten - The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra

Benjamin Britten - Welcome Ode

Participants

Ryan Wigglesworth

Conductor

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

Producer

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1 dates (15 Jun - 15 Jun)

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