The Ligeti Quartet has curated Ligeti Day in this year’s Aldeburgh Festival to mark the centenary of the great composer’s birth.
Highlights include a concert including 15 world premieres by composers including Ligeti’s son Lukas. In this specially created bonus edition of the Aldeburgh Festival podcast, the quartet members explore these new works and the music of Ligeti himself in advance of Ligeti Day on Friday 23 June.

The Ligeti Quartet has curated Ligeti Day in this year’s Aldeburgh Festival to mark the centenary of the great composer’s birth. Highlights include a concert including 15 world premieres by composers including Ligeti’s son Lukas. In this specially created bonus edition of the Aldeburgh Festival podcast, the quartet members explore these new works and the music of Ligeti himself in advance of Ligeti Day on Friday 23 June.

Bonus episode: The music of Ligeti

The Aldeburgh Festival has been a pilgrimage for lovers of classical music and culture since 1948. Its brings together new commissions, world-premiers and international stars on the stretch of Suffolk Coast which so bewitched its founder, the composer Benjamin Britten. It runs for a fortnight each June. This podcast gets up close with some of the artists taking part in this year's Festival, in a mix of quick fire questions and in-depth discussions, hosted by BCC Radio Three DJ Tom McKinney and Dr Lucy Walker. If you want to know more about the Aldeburgh Festival, this podcast is a great place to start.

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