35 world premieres bloom at rosy English festival

The Aldeburgh Festival often blooms with new music in June but seldom so lavishly as in the summer of 2023.

The list of premieres is breath-catching:
World/Public Premieres – 35
 Sarah Angliss: Giant
 Sadie Harrison: The River Dreams of Winter (public performance)
 Sarah Angliss: Buying the Wind
 David Matthews: Quartet No. 17
 Gibbons: Selection of songs (arr. James Weeks)
 de Falla: Fantasia baetica (orch. Francisco Coll)
 Sally Beamish: Four Songs from Hafez, orchestral version
 Bartók: Six Dances in Bulgarian Rhythm from Mikrokosmos (arr. George Strives)
 Newton Armstrong: The Book of the Sediments
 Ryan Wigglesworth: Vignettes de Jules Renard song cycle
 Leonid Desyatnikov: Tromp l’oeil
 Roderick Williams: Inviolata (after Lusitano) (first public performance)
 Letters to A Young Poet production
 Nathan Williamson: String Quartet
 Schubert Die Schöne Müllerin (arr. Roderick Williams)
 Nouvelles Etudes, 14 tributes to Ligeti including pieces by:
 Benoît Delbecq
 Rolf Hind
 Sidney Corbett
 Silvia Fômina
 Xiaoyong Chen
 Manfred Stahnke
 Ana Sokolović
 Cassie Kinoshi
 Elliot Galvin
 Emily Hazrati
 Mandhira de Saram
 Franghiz Ali-Zadeh
 Nicole Lizée
 Britten Pears Contemporary Ensemble concert: six world premieres from Britten Pears Young Composers

European/UK/English premieres – 9
 Anna Thorvaldsdottir: AIŌN (UK) (pictured)
 Anna Thorvaldsdottir: Reminiscence (UK)
 Anna Thorvaldsdottir: Reflections (UK)
 Bushra El-Turk: Woman at Point Zero (UK)
 Rebecca Saunders: The Mouth (UK)
 Electra Perivolaris: A Winged Woman (English)
 Carter: Three Explorations (European)
 Ligeti: Little Serenade (UK)
 The Art of Being Human production (UK)

Many of the new composers are women and much of their work is woven in and around other festival themes, including the centenary of Gyorgy Ligeti’s birth and an intense focus on string quartets.

Nothing remotely like this at the diminished BBC Proms.