Latitude Festival
Latitude Festival, Southwold
Saturday 17 - Sunday 18 July 2009
The Guardian
Classical Music Magazine - will open pdf of the article
The Guardian
Budge up, Nick Cave and Grace Jones - Britten Sinfonia set to play Latitude
By Charlotte Higgins
25 March 2009
http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2009/mar/25/arts-diary1
For arts organisations in search of an aura of cool, there’s only one place to perform this summer: the Latitude Festival in Suffolk.
This July - alongside headliners Grace Jones, the Pet Shop Boys and Nick Cave - Britten Sinfonia will become the first orchestra ever to play the event, at Henham Park near Southwold.
Britten Sinfonia, which will perform a programme of Bach vioin concertos, Reich and Piazzolla, is the closest thing Latitude has to a local orchestra. It has residencies in Norwich and Cambridge, and is named after Benjamin Britten, whose beloved Aldeburgh is just down the coast from Southwold.
“There’s such an extraordinary range of people who go to the festival - from children to people well versed in the arts,” said David Butcher, the orchestra’s chief executive. “It’s a fabulous audience to tap into. We hope, with the kind of music we are playing, we’ll allow people to take a fresh look at what a modern orchestra feels like.”
As in the three previous Latitudes, theatre - as well as comedy and literature - will have a strong presence, with the Royal Shakespeare Company, the National Theatre, Paines Plough and Fuel making an appearance.
This year also sees the debut of the Royal Opera House. It won’t be quite the all-guns-blazing experience English National Opera provided when it visited Wagner upon Glastonbury a few years back. Instead, the ROH will present excerpts from Helen Chadwick’s dramatic song cycle Dalston Songs, and choreographer Will Tuckett’s piece Depouillement for Ballet Black.
Calendar
Next Production
Padmore sings Mahler
Bradford on Avon, Cambridge and London
12 - 17 May 2012
Due to family illness, Mark Padmore has had to withdraw from this performance. He will be replaced by baritone Roderick Williams.
Britten Sinfonia at Lunch 4
West Road Concert Hall, Cambridge
01 May 2012 1:00pm
Renowned tenor, Mark Padmore joins Britten Sinfonia for the final concert in the 2011-12 At Lunch series. At the centre of this programme is a work by British composer, Jonathan Dove, co-commissioned by Britten Sinfonia and Wigmore Hall with support from the Tenner for a Tenor campaign.
Britten Sinfonia at Lunch 4
Wigmore Hall, London
02 May 2012 1:00pm
Renowned tenor, Mark Padmore joins Britten Sinfonia for the final concert in the 2011-12 At Lunch series. At the centre of this programme is a work by British composer, Jonathan Dove, co-commissioned by Britten Sinfonia and Wigmore Hall with support from the Tenner for a Tenor campaign.
Norfolk & Norwich Festival - Padmore Sings Mahler
St Andrew's Hall, Norwich
11 May 2012 7:30pm
Due to family illness, Mark Padmore has had to withdraw from this performance. He will be replaced by baritone Roderick Williams.
Padmore sings Mahler
Wiltshire Music Centre, Bradford on Avon
12 May 2012 7:30pm
Due to family illness, Mark Padmore has had to withdraw from this performance. He will be replaced by baritone Roderick Williams.
Padmore sings Mahler
West Road Concert Hall, Cambridge
16 May 2012 7:30pm
Due to family illness, Mark Padmore has had to withdraw from this performance. He will be replaced by baritone Roderick Williams.
Padmore sings Mahler
Southbank Centre's Queen Elizabeth Hall, London
17 May 2012 7:30pm
Due to family illness, Mark Padmore has had to withdraw from this performance. He will be replaced by baritone Roderick Williams.
Brighton Festival - Mahler & Schubert
Corn Exchange, Brighton Dome, Brighton
19 May 2012 7:30pm
Due to family illness, Mark Padmore has had to withdraw from this performance. He will be replaced by baritone Roderick Williams.
Bury St Edmunds Festival
The Apex, Bury St. Edmunds
20 May 2012 7:30pm
Britten Sinfonia returns to the festival for in 2012.
Brighton Festival - King Priam
Corn Exchange, Brighton Dome, Brighton
27 May 2012 7:00pm
‘I have to sing songs for those who can’t sing for themselves. Those songs come from the torments and horrors that have happened. I can’t lose faith in humanity.’ Sir Michael Tippett
Britten Sinfonia at Museo Reina Sofia
Museo Reina Sofia , Madrid
28 May 2012 7:30pm
Fabián Panisello conducts his song cycle Libro del Frio with soprano Allison Bell and Britten Sinfonia
