The Danube Festival of Song, 5–12 July 2016

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The Danube Festival of Song 5–12 July 2016

Mary Bevan • Susan Bullock • Véronique Gens • Miah Persson • Katarina Karnéus • Dorottya Láng • Renata Pokupić Ian Bostridge • Christoph Prégardien • Benjamin Appl • André Schuen • Roderick Williams Susie Allan • Julius Drake • Daniel Heide • Susan Manoff • Malcolm Martineau • Christoph Schnackertz • Roger Vignoles

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The Danube Festival of Song

5–12 July 2016

Twelve of the world’s greatest Lieder singers, seven of the finest pianistaccompanists, eleven beautiful, historic and appropriate halls; eight days of recitals, lectures and discussion: this can only be the MRT Festival of Song.

The third edition takes place along the Danube in July 2016.

Soprano • Mary Bevan, Susan Bullock, Véronique Gens, Miah Persson.

Mezzo-soprano • Katarina Karnéus, Dorottya Láng, Renata Pokupić.

Tenor • Ian Bostridge, Christoph Prégardien.

Baritone • Benjamin Appl, André Schuen, Roderick Williams.

Piano • Susie Allan, Julius Drake, Daniel Heide, Susan Manoff, Malcolm Martineau, Christoph Schnackertz, Roger Vignoles.

An exceptional line-up of artists Just look at the list – every one is an exceptional talent; many are internationally known as leaders in their fields.

The repertoire performed ranges widely.

Schubert has a leading role, which is particularly appropriate in the landscapes and cityscapes he knew so well. Schumann and Liszt figure prominently.

But there are also programmes of Hungarian, Nordic, French and English songs, performed by singers in their mother-tongue – respectively Dorottya Láng, Katarina Karnéus, Véronique Gens and Roderick Williams. The Czech programme is almost in this category, being sung by a Croatian, Renata Pokupić.

Ian Bostridge sings Schumann, a matchless combination, while Christoph Prégardien is the principal Schubertian.

A private audience…

Miah Persson sings Mozart and Susan Bullock sings Wagner, composers for which each is famous. André Schuen inserts songs in the Ladin language from the region of his childhood. Mary Bevan and Benjamin Appl perform duets: an electric combination.

There is only one audience, of no more than 120, consisting of those who take the package which includes not only all the recitals but also accommodation, transport, meals and nearly everything else. They live for the week on board a modern and comfortable river cruiser, which is both hotel and principal means of travel.

Artistic Director & Speaker..................4

Fitness for the festival.......................... 13

Booking form................................ 17–18

The Programme............................... 5–10

Pre-festival tours:

Making a booking................................ 19

Joining & leaving the festival.............. 11

Vienna’s Masterpieces.......................... 14

Booking conditions............................. 19

The ship, prices.............................. 12–13

Budapest......................................... 15–16

Illustration: Krems, mid-19th-century steel engraving.

Previous page: ‘At Homes – 1. Music’ by Phil May, 1894.

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Beautiful historical halls

The spoken word

The comfort of a river cruiser

Each recital takes place in a different hall.

Charming and beautiful, the venues are all of historical significance as well as being excellent spaces for song recitals. Many reflect in their architecture and decoration the music performed in them.

The spoken word, analytical, historical and anecdotal, plays an important role in the festival. There are daily talks by Richard Stokes, who has an unsurpassed knowledge of German-language poetry and art song and is a much sought-after lecturer and singing teacher.

We have chartered the MS Amadeus Royal, one of the more comfortable ships on the waterways of Europe, exclusively for this festival. This enables you to attend all the concerts and see some of the finest scenery and townscape from Budapest to Passau without having to change hotels or drive long distances.

Most are small, creating the closeness between performers and audience which so enhances the experience of this most intimate and reflective of musical forms.

In many ways, however, this venture is far removed from the usual cruising routine: there is little regimentation, no obligatory seating plan, no on-board entertainment – and no piped music.

Richard Stokes Speaker & Artistic Director An inspiring and widely acclaimed lecturer, Richard Stokes plays a key role in the festival through daily lectures and discussions on poets, composers, comparative settings and social background.

Few people in the world know as much about Lieder and art song as Richard. A linguist and literature teacher as well as a musicologist, he taught at Westminster School for many years and is now Professor of Lieder at the Royal Academy of Music.

He gives lectures and master classes all over Britain and abroad, and is a regular jury member of international song competitions.

He has written books on French, German and Spanish song, and his latest volume, The Penguin Book of English Song, will be published in the spring of 2016 by Allen Lane.

He has translated a number of works for the operatic stage including Parsifal, Lulu, Wozzeck, La voix humaine and Jakob Lenz (Wolfgang Rihm), all of which have been performed at English National Opera.

Other published translations include J.S. Bach – The Complete Cantatas, Kafka’s The Trial, Metamorphosis and Letter to his Father, and Jules Renard’s Histoires naturelles. book online at www.martinrandall.com

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Day -1, Monday 4th July: Budapest

Day 1, Tuesday 5th July: Budapest

We are offering the option of arriving in Budapest a day before the festival begins (see page 11 for prices and flight options).

For information on travelling to Budapest, see page 11.

The price for this includes a coach transfer from Budapest airport to the InterContinental Hotel and one night’s accommodation.

Dinner is independent, though festival staff will be on hand to help make restaurant bookings if required.

Overnight Budapest.

The ship, MS Amadeus Royal, is moored in Budapest and is ready for boarding from 4.00pm.

A buffet lunch is provided from c. 1.30pm for all participants at a restaurant near this afternoon’s concert venue.

Budapest results from the triumphant amalgamation of Buda, an impregnable citadel around which the city on the right bank of the Danube developed, and Pest on the left bank whose Parisian elegance extends over less encumbered terrain. The two were rival cities until formal unification in 1872.

Now Budapest is the principal metropolis of East-Central Europe, a city of vitality, splendour and controversy.

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Dorottya Láng mezzo-soprano Julius Drake piano Starting in Budapest, the festival had to begin with Hungarian songs, and a Hungarian singer. The venue is the Solti Hall in the Liszt Academy, recently returned to its original 1907 Secessionist appearance, and the programme includes works by Franz Liszt, Zoltan Kodály and György Ligeti.

Dorottya Láng is an exciting young mezzosoprano who so far is little known to Englishspeaking audiences. Born in Budapest, she studied singing in Vienna and is a member of the Hamburg State Opera.

One of the world’s leading accompanists, British pianist Julius Drake works with many leading artists, both vocal and instrumental, in recital and on disc. This is the first of four recitals in this festival on which he collaborates.

Board the ship, MS Amadeus Royal, after the concert. There is a reception and dinner on board. Sail overnight to Bratislava.

Acknowledgements This brochure was produced in house.

The text was written and edited chiefly by Martin Randall and Tim Greenhalgh. It was designed by Jo Murray and was sent to print on 20th August 2015.

Recital 1, 4.00pm Budapest, The Liszt Academy of Music, Solti Hall: Hungarian Song

Illustration, previous page: Vienna, early-20th-century etching.

Above: Budapest, Parliament House, watercolour c. 1930.

Photographs, top right: Dorottya Làng ©Shirley Suarez; Julius Drake ©Marco Borggreve.

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Day 2, Wednesday 6th July: Bratislava The series of daily lectures begins. Moor at Bratislava.

Now capital of Slovakia, Bratislava (formerly Pressburg) was for 300 years capital of the Habsburg rump of Hungary while Ottoman Turks occupied most of the country. Its compact historic centre is a delight; a dense mesh of unspoilt streets, squares and façades.

Comprehensive restoration has transformed it in the last 20 years into one of the loveliest towns along the Danube.

Recital 2 Bratislava, Moyzes Hall: Czech songs & Frauenliebe Renata Pokupić mezzo-soprano Roger Vignoles piano Acknowledging the Slavic location of the recital, the programme includes songs

by Antonín Dvořák and Václav TomáŠek (1774–1850), whose songs have recently been recorded by Pokupić and Vignoles.

Schumann’s cycle Frauenliebe und -leben follows. The Moyzes Hall is a hidden gem, a modestly sized concert hall built at the turn of the 19th century.

Renata Pokupić is a Croatian mezzo-soprano known internationally for her performances of Baroque, Classical and coloratura opera repertoire as well as for Lieder.

Her expressiveness and beauty of tone win hearts worldwide.

Roger Vignoles is recognised as one of the world’s most distinguished piano accompanists. He regularly partners the finest singers in major venues around the world and is regarded as a leading authority on the song repertoire. He performs at two of the concerts in this festival.

After lunch on board there is free time before the 6.00pm recital. There is plenty to do and see in Bratislava.

Recital 3 Bratislava, Primatial Palace: Duets & solos Mary Bevan soprano Benjamin Appl baritone Julius Drake piano The second concert of the day takes place in the Mirror Hall in the Primatial Palace.

Formerly the seat of the Archbishop of Hungary, now the Town Hall, when completed in 1781 it was the grandest building in downtown Bratislava.

Mary Bevan is an outstanding young British singer, whose numerous awards include the book online at www.martinrandall.com

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Royal Philharmonic Society’s Young Artist Award in 2015. Benjamin Appl is a German baritone who studied at the Guildhall School in London and now performs in opera and Lieder throughout Europe.

The recital includes songs by Schumann, Mendelssohn and Brahms.

After the concert, sail upstream and moor early next morning at Vienna-Nussdorf.

Day 3, Thursday 7th July: Vienna The ship is moored all day at Nussdorf, 20 minutes by coach from the centre of Vienna.

Principal seat of the Habsburgs for over 600 years, Vienna became capital of a vast agglomeration of territories that encompassed much of Central and Eastern Europe. The fabric of the city is a glorious mix of the magnificently imperious and the charmingly unpretentious, and it remains one of the world’s greatest centres of art and music.

Recital 4 Vienna, Konzerthaus, Schubert-Saal: Nordic song Katarina Karnéus mezzo-soprano Julius Drake piano The prolific architectural firm of Fellner & Helmer designed opera houses and concert halls throughout the Habsburg Empire, but the Konzerthaus (1911–13) was their largest undertaking. The 300-seat Schubert-Saal is the smallest of the three auditoria within the complex.

Befitting the origins of the singer, the programme features composers from Norway, Sweden and Finland – Grieg, Sibelius, Wilhelm Peterson-Berger and Wilhelm Stenhammar. Their careers encompassed the years of national reawakening in the Nordic countries, a highly fruitful period of creativity in all the arts.

Illustration, above left: Bratislava, steel engraving c. 1850.

Above right: Vienna, Am Hof, engraving c. 1760.

Born in Stockholm, Katarina Karnéus studied in London at Trinity College and the National Opera Studio. She won BBC Cardiff Singer of the World in 1995 before going on to an international career with major roles at the Metropolitan Opera, Covent Garden, Glyndebourne and the Deutsche Staatsoper.

Photographs, left: Roger Vignoles ©Ben Ealovega; Renata Pokupić ©Chris Gloag. Above, clockwise from top left: Mary Bevan ©Victoria Cadisch; Benjamin Appl ©David Jerusalem; Christoph Prégardien ©Marco Borggreve; Christoph Schnackertz ©Christoph Schnackertz; Katarina Karnéus ©Mats Bäcker.

Return to the ship for lunch after the recital, or remain in Vienna – your choice. The afternoon is free for independent exploration of the city or for a guided tour.

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Recital 5 Vienna, Musikverein, Brahms-Saal: Schubert – poems by Ernst Schulze & others Christoph Prégardien tenor Christoph Schnackertz piano Christoph Prégardien is one of today’s truly great Lieder singers. His highly distinguished career is also notable for his work in opera, oratorio and Baroque music. He regularly works with the young pianist Christoph Schnackertz who is from Cologne.

This carefully constructed all-Schubert programme begins with nine settings of Ernst Schulze and continues with poems by Rückert, Schlegel and others.

Built in 1869 as home of the Vienna Philharmonic, the Musikverein is perhaps the most famous concert hall in the world. This recital of songs by Schubert takes place in the Brahms-Saal, the smaller of the two auditoria.

Return to the ship for dinner. Moor overnight in Nussdorf.

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Day 4, Friday 8th July: Eisenstadt, Eckartsau Drive to Eisenstadt, an attractive country town to the south-east of Vienna. It is dominated by a vast 17th-century mansion, the principal seat of the Esterházy family.

Josef Haydn was in Esterházy service in one way or another for most of his adult life so many of his compositions were first performed in this Schloss.

Recital 6 Eisenstadt, Schloss Esterhàzy, Empiresaal: Haydn & Mozart Miah Persson soprano Roger Vignoles piano Miah Persson, our second Swedish singer, is in demand at leading opera houses around the world. She began her career in Stockholm singing mainly Mozart roles, and though her repertoire is now broad she regularly returns to Classical composers.

Haydn and Mozart form the bulk of this morning’s programme, with a smattering of Scandinavian nuggets.

The concert takes place in the smaller of the two halls, which was refurbished in NeoClassical style towards the end of Haydn’s life.

Return to the ship and during lunch sail from Vienna-Nussdorf to Hainburg,

a small walled town close to the Slovakian border, where Haydn went to school. Drive to Schloss Eckartsau.

Recital 7 Schloss Eckartsau, Festsaal: Wagner & beyond Susan Bullock soprano Malcolm Martineau piano Susan Bullock cbe is one of Britain’s leading dramatic sopranos. She was the first to sing four cycles of Wagner’s Ring at Covent Garden. Other roles include Strauss’s Elektra, Wagner’s Isolde, and more recently Puccini’s Minnie in The Girl of the Golden West, Mrs Lovett in Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd and Elizabeth in Britten’s Gloriana.

This programme includes Wagner’s Wesendonck Lieder and moves through Reger, Schrecker and Marx.

Schloss Eckartsau is a Baroque hunting lodge which was extended for Archduke Franz Ferdinand (he of the Sarajevo assassination 1914). Four years later, in March 1919, it became the last Austrian residence of the last Emperor of Austria.

Return to the ship and sail back upstream to Vienna-Nussdorf during the course of the evening.

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Day 5, Saturday 9th July: Vienna Wake up in Vienna-Nussdorf where, after the morning talk, coaches take you to the centre for a second opportunity to explore the city and visit an art gallery or two. Recommendations include the great Baroque library of the Habsburg palace, the Belvedere Palace for the Klimts and Schieles, the excellent Museum of Historical Musical Instruments and the Kunsthistorisches Museum, one of the greatest art collections in the world.

Recital 8 Vienna, Albertina: Schubert & Liszt André Schuen baritone Daniel Heide piano The Albertina, a Habsburg residence named after a son-in-law of Empress Maria Theresa, is home to one of the world’s greatest collections of prints and drawings. The building was refurbished at the beginning of the 19th century, and the light-filled, delicately Neo-Classical Hall of Muses where the concert takes place is contemporary with Schubert’s maturity.

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André Schuen comes from South Tyrol in Italy and studied at the Salzburg Mozarteum where he won numerous prizes and awards. He has performed in opera houses and festivals in Austria and has developed a wide Lieder repertoire with the pianist Daniel Heide.

Educated in Weimar, Daniel has performed at numerous Lieder recitals in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, France, Italy, Greece and the Czech Republic.

The programme is a fascinating compilation of mainstream songs by Schubert and Liszt (Three Petrarch Sonnets) with a dose of South Tyrolean folksongs in Ladinish by the regional composers Felix Dapoz and Jepele Frontull.

After the concert, return to the ship and sail throughout the evening upstream to Krems.

Illustration, top left: Schloss Esterhàzy, Eisenstadt, steel engraving c. 1850. Top right: Schloss Grafenegg, engraving 1895.

Photographs, clockwise from top right: Susan Bullock ©Christina Raphaelle; Malcolm Martineau ©Alessandro Moggi; André Schuen ©Angelika Schwartz; Daniel Heide ©Alexander Busch; Ian Bostridge ©Sim Canetty-Clarke; Véronique Gens ©Alexandre Weinberger/Virgin Classics; Susan Manoff ©Fumiaki Fujimoto/Oji Hall; Miah Persson ©Mina.

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Day 6, Sunday 10th July: Grafenegg, Dürnstein The boat moors in Krems during the night.

Disembark for the short drive to Schloss Grafenegg, a mediaeval country residence, which was augmented with one of Austria’s most flamboyant and successful essays in Gothic Revival.

Return to the ship and sail through the Wachau, one of the most beautiful stretches of the Danube. Moor at Dürnstein, perhaps the loveliest little town on the river. The ruins of a castle in which Richard the Lionheart was imprisoned cling to a steep hill which rears behind, while a gorgeous Baroque abbey church perches on the waterfront. Disembark for an early evening concert.

Recital 9 Schloss Grafenegg, Gartensaal: French song

Recital 10 Dürnstein Abbey, Prälatensaal: Songs by Schumann

Véronique Gens soprano Susan Manoff piano

Ian Bostridge tenor Julius Drake piano

At the end of a procession of rooms, elaborately decorated with carved and inlaid woodwork, the 1840s Garden Room is filled with natural light.

The venue is the principal reception room in the abbey, perfect in size and shape for a Lieder recital, handsomely decorated with Neoclassical frescoes and looking out over the Danube.

Véronique Gens is one of the finest living French singers. Initially acquiring fame in Baroque opera, she has widened her repertoire to include roles by Mozart and songs by 19th and 20th-century French composers. Susan Manoff was born in New York of Latvian and German descent.

She has become a much sought-after accompanist for art song and also performs chamber music and solo piano in the world’s leading concert halls.

This morning’s programme includes songs by Duparc, Chausson, Hahn and Debussy.

Ian Bostridge is one of Britain’s most distinguished and distinctive tenors, with an international recital career and appearances at Covent Garden, English National Opera, the Bavarian State Opera and elsewhere. His recordings have won international prizes and have been nominated for 12 Grammys.

The programme consists of settings by Robert Schumann of poetry by Eichendorff, Justinus Kerner and Hans Christian Andersen.

Return to the ship and sail overnight to Linz.

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Day 7, Monday 11th July: Linz Moor at Linz, the historic capital of Upper Austria. A picturesque maze of streets, alleys and historic buildings is grouped around the huge market square a few metres from the mooring. There is some free time in Linz before either returning to the ship for lunch or remaining in the centre until the afternoon recital.

Recital 11 Linz, Palais Kaufmännischer Verein: English song Roderick Williams baritone Susie Allan piano The Palais Kaufmännischer Verein was built in the 1890s with a suite of lavishly decorated halls for assorted gatherings and celebrations.

The Picture Hall is a fin-de-siècle creation enriched with gilded Baroque motifs and ennobled with fine history paintings.

Roderick Williams is one of Britain’s most brilliant and versatile baritones and performs repertoire from Baroque to contemporary, in the opera house and on the concert platform.

He is also a composer. Susie Allan studied at Oxford and the Guildhall School and has performed all over Britain and Europe with a variety of well-established singers, in particular Roderick Williams.

Their programme is a wonderful compilation of songs by English composers of the early 20th century – Ralph Vaughan Williams, Roger Quilter, John Ireland, Ivor Gurney, George Butterworth, Gerald Finzi, Peter Warlock, Ernest John Moeran and Benjamin Britten.

Sail upstream overnight from Linz to Passau, with a reception and dinner against a backdrop of river and wooded hills receding into the dusk.

Day 8, Tuesday 12th July: Passau, Munich The ship moors at Passau and coaches leave for Munich city centre and the airport between 8.30 and 9.30am. See page 11 for the options available for return travel to London.

Selecting Option 2 allows for five hours of independent sightseeing in Munich.

Illustrations, left to right: Linz, main square and Old Cathedral, aquatint c. 1930; Passau, 20th-century etching.

More about the concerts Private events. These concerts are planned and administered by Martin Randall Travel.

The audience, no more than 120, consists exclusively of those who have booked the full festival package.

Seating. Specific seats are not reserved.

You sit where you want.

Acoustics. This festival is more concerned with authenticity and ambience than acoustical perfection. While some of the venues have excellent acoustics, others have idiosyncrasies not found in modern concert halls.

Floods and droughts. We cannot rule out changes to the programme arising from exceptionally high or low water levels on the Danube, either of which may bring river traffic to a halt. These might necessitate more travel by coach or the loss of a concert, though we would always try to minimise the impact on the itinerary.

Changes. This brochure was printed 11 months before the festival. Musicians fall ill, venues require restoration, programmes are subject to artists’ changes of mind: there are many unforeseeable circumstances which could necessitate changes to the programme. We ask you to be understanding should they occur.

Photographs: Roderick Williams ©Benjamin Ealovega; Susie Allan ©Simon Denison.

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Joining & leaving the festival If you want to obtain flights through us Flights are not included in the basic price of the festival, but we have reserved some seats on the flights offered below. Please indicate your choices on the booking form.

Fly out on Monday 4th July

Fly back on Tuesday 12th July

Option 1: morning, a day early

Option 4: early-afternoon

London Heathrow to Budapest, departing 8.50am (BA 866, arriving Budapest 12.20pm).

Coach transfer to the Hotel InterContinental Budapest, where one night is spent.

Munich to London Heathrow, departing 12.55pm (BA 951, arriving London Heathrow at 2.00pm).

Price, including flight (one-way), airport transfer and one night’s hotel accommodation: £250 per person (two sharing) or £300 (single occupancy).

Option 2: afternoon, a day early London Heathrow to Budapest, departing 2.35pm (BA 868, arriving Budapest 6.00pm).

Coach transfer to the Hotel InterContinental Budapest, where one night is spent.

Price, including flight (one-way), airport transfer and one night’s hotel accommodation: £210 per person (two sharing) or £260 (single occupancy).

Price, including flight (one-way) and airport transfer: £90.

Option 5: mid-afternoon Munich to London Heathrow, with a stop in Landshut, departing 4.25pm (BA 953, arriving London Heathrow at 5.25pm).

Participants have two hours in Landshut, a former capital of Bavaria with its Renaissance and Baroque house fronts, the great Gothic church of St Martin and the precociously Italianate Renaissance ducal palace.

Price, including flight (one-way) and airport transfer: £130.

Option 6: evening

Fly out on Tuesday 5th July Option 3: morning, day 1 London Heathrow to Budapest, departing 8.50am (BA 866, arriving Budapest 12.20pm).

Coach to the centre of Budapest, where lunch is provided before the afternoon concert.

Board the ship after the concert.

Price, including flight (one-way) and airport transfer: £220.

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Munich to London Heathrow, with free time in Munich, departing 6.50pm (BA 961, arriving London Heathrow at 7.50pm).

Participants have until 3.50pm in Munich.

Price, including flight (one-way) and airport transfer: £100.

Pre-festival tours Vienna’s Masterpieces and Budapest: participants are booked on the 12.55pm flight BA 951 (Option 4) on the final day of the festival (12th July). You do not have to make a choice of inbound journey, or pay an extra supplement for your flight as flights are already included in the cost of the pre-festival tours – see pages 14–16 for full details.

Illustration, above: Vienna, 20th-century etching.

Below: Budapest, wood engraving c. 1880.

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The MS Amadeus Royal is one of the more comfortable cruisers on the waterways of Europe and was completely renovated in 2015.

The multi-national crew is dedicated to the highest standards of service.

With a minimum floor area of 15m2 the cabins are reasonably spacious by the standards of river cruisers. All have windows to the outside and are equipped with the facilities one would expect of a first-class hotel including shower, w.c., individually adjustable air-conditioning, telephone, TV and safe. Special attention has been paid to noise insulation.

In layout and furnishings the cabins are identical, the significant differences being the size of windows and height above water level (higher cabins enjoy marginally better views and fewer stairs). Beds are twins which can be pushed together or separated.

Those on the top two decks (Mozart and Strauss) are the most desirable, having floor to ceiling windows which slide open.

Also on the Mozart deck are four suites measuring approximately 22m2 which have a bath and minibar. Cabins on the Haydn deck have smaller panoramic windows that cannot be opened.

Haydn Deck (lowest) Two sharing: £3,190 per person *Single occupancy: £3,830

Strauss Deck (middle) Two sharing: £3,820 per person *Single occupancy: £4,590

Mozart Deck (top)

The festival package The price includes: Admission to eleven concerts.

Two sharing: £4,250 per person *Single occupancy: £5,100

Accommodation for seven nights on board a first-class river cruiser.

Suites (Mozart Deck)

All meals, from lunch on the first day to breakfast on the last. Wine is provided with lunch and dinner.

Two sharing: £4,990 per person *All cabins are designed to accommodate two passengers. We make a limited amount of cabins on each deck available for single occupancy, which usually sell out quickly. Around three months before the start of the festival we may offer any remaining unsold cabins previously reserved for double occupancy to single travellers on the waiting list at a higher price (Haydn £4,150; Strauss £4,970; Mozart £5,530).

The above prices do not include flights.

We are offering seats on a selection of flights which vary in price. See page 11 for details.

There are no single cabins as such but we are allocating some two-bed cabins for single occupancy.

The public areas on the upper deck include the lounge and bar, a library area and a restaurant which can seat everyone at a single sitting. The sun deck has a small jacuzzi and a tented area for shade. The ship has a lift.

Interval drinks.

Afternoon tea or morning coffee on board the ship when it fits with our itinerary.

Travel by coach to the concert venues when they are beyond walking distance.

Lectures by a musicologist.

All tips for crew, restaurant staff and drivers, and all state and airport taxes.

Practical and historical information and a detailed programme booklet.

The assistance of an experienced team of festival staff.

Information about the ship is available at www.lueftner-cruises.at

Photos above, starting at top: a suite on the Mozart deck; a cabin on the Mozart/Strauss deck; a cabin on the Haydn deck (photo is of a different ship with cabins of an identical size and layout but different décor).

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Deck plans If you would like a particular cabin, please request this on your booking form.

Mozart deck – cabins 301–304 are suites.

Fitness for the festival Quite a lot of walking is necessary to reach the concert venues and to get around the towns visited. The ship has a lift, but most of the venues do not. Participants need to be averagely fit, sure-footed and able to manage everyday walking and stairclimbing without difficulty.

This festival is not really suitable for wheelchair users but please speak to us if you would like to discuss this.

Strauss deck

There is no age limit for this festival or for the pre-festival tours but we do ask that prospective participants assess their fitness by trying some simple exercises described here:

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Self-assessment tests.

Suite 22m2

Cabin 15m2

1. Chair stands. Sit in a dining chair, with arms folded and hands on opposite shoulders. Stand up and sit down at least 8 times in 30 seconds.

2. Step test. Mark a wall at a height that is halfway between your knee and your hip bone. Raise each knee in turn to the mark at least 60 times in 2 minutes.

Below: Dürnstein, lithograph by L.T. Sandmann c. 1840.

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3. Agility test. Place an object 3 yards from the edge of a chair, sit, and record the time it takes to stand up, walk to the object and sit back down. You should be able to do this in under 7 seconds.

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Vienna’s Masterpieces 1–5 July 2016 (mc 741) 5 days • £1,980 Lecturer: Professor David Ekserdjian Focuses on the best of the art in the city – painting, sculpture and decorative arts.

Also the key architectural monuments and characteristic streetscape.

Perfectly located 5-star heritage hotel.

Can be combined with The Danube Festival of Song or booked on its own.

Vienna possesses one of the most significant concentrations of great art to be found anywhere in the world. There are Old Master paintings of the highest quality, indigenous early-modern art and design of the highest

The art collections of an imperial capital

importance, furnishings and decorative arts from many civilizations, precious regalia and goldwork without peer – and much else besides. This tour includes all of the main art museums and many of the smaller or less-visited ones. There is also more than a passing glance at the most important works of architecture, and the lecturer’s input touches on the fascinating and turbulent history of Austria and her empire.

The seat of the Habsburgs, pre-eminent city of the Holy Roman Empire and capital of a vast multinational agglomeration of territories, Vienna is appropriately equipped with magnificent buildings and broad boulevards.

But cheek by jowl with grandiloquent palaces and trumpeting churches are narrow alleys and ancient courtyards which survive from

Vienna, St Stephen’s Cathedral, copper engraving c. 1700.

Pre-festival tour the mediaeval city. In Vienna the magnificent mixes with the unpretentiously charming, imperial display with the Gemütlichkeit of the coffee houses. Diversity and delight.

Itinerary Day 1. Fly at c. 9.15am from London Heathrow to Vienna (Austrian Airlines) and drive to the hotel in the heart of the city. After a light lunch, walk to the Kunsthistorisches Museum (Art History Museum), one of the world’s greatest collections of Old Masters.

For this first visit concentrate on the northern schools, especially the early Netherlandish school, the famous Bruegels, Rubens, Rembrandt and Vermeer.

Day 2. The splendid Belvedere Palace now houses the national collection of Austrian art, mediaeval, Baroque, Biedermeier and Secessionist – Klimt and Schiele. An afternoon walk around the Roman and mediaeval core of the city takes in the Cathedral, the greatest of Gothic buildings in the Danubian lands, distinguished for its late mediaeval sculpture, and the Hofburg, the sprawling winter palace of the Habsburgs.

The precious regalia and objets d’art in the Schatzkammer (Treasury) are the best of their kind.

Day 3. In a park a few minutes from the hotel see the Art Nouveau former metro stations by Otto Wagner and the great Baroque Church of St Charles. The excellent Vienna Museum traces the city’s history through art and artefacts. In the afternoon visit the Secession Building which contains Klimt’s Beethoven Frieze, the magnificent Great Hall of the Court Library and the excellent if small gallery of the Academy of Fine Arts. Among its holdings is a masterpiece by Hieronymus Bosch.

Day 4. Another walk through picturesque streets and squares passes private palaces and public buildings such as the Gothic Revival city hall and the Neo-Classical Parliament. The Leopold Collection comprises excellent examples of the arts from the turn of the nineteenth century. The afternoon is spent in the Kunsthistorisches Museum again, this time concentrating mainly on Italian pictures – Bellini, Titian, Bellotto. There is also the recently re-displayed Kunstkammer here, an outstanding collection of metalwork and sculpture.

Day 5. Take a tram around the Ringstrasse, a boulevard encircling the inner city lined with magnificent palaces and institutions of the later nineteenth century. Visit the Museum of Applied Arts, an outstanding collection from all eras and places, well displayed. Walk back to the hotel through further enchanting

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Art & architecture in Hungary’s capital Pre-festival tour

streetscape. Take a train at c. 12.00 noon from Vienna to Budapest to join The Danube Festival of Song. (Those not continuing onwards to the festival leave the hotel at 3.00pm and return to Heathrow c. 6.45pm.)

Tuesday 12th July. On the final day of the festival, fly from Munich at 12.55pm (British Airways), arriving at Heathrow at 2.00pm (festival flight Option 4 – see page 11).

Lecturer Professor David Ekserdjian. Professor of the History of Art and Film at the University of Leicester since 2004.

Currently a Trustee of the Public Catalogue Foundation, he is a former Trustee of the National Gallery (2005–13) and of Tate (2008–13), and a former Member of the Reviewing Committee on the Export of Works of Art (2003–12). He is the author of numerous publications, including Correggio (1997), Parmigianino (2006), and Alle Origini della Natura Morta (2007). In 2004 he was made an Honorary Citizen of the town of Correggio. He was the organiser of the exhibition Bronze at the Royal Academy in 2012.

Practicalities Price: £1,980 (per person, two sharing) or £2,240 (single occupancy). This includes: air travel (economy class) on scheduled Austrian Airlines and (if booking on the festival) British Airways flights (Airbus A320), coach travel for airport transfers and on one other occasion; accommodation as described below; breakfasts, 1 lunch and 3 dinners with wine; admissions; tips for waiters, drivers and guides; all airport and state taxes; the services of the lecturer. Price without flights: subtract £210.

Accommodation. Hotel Bristol (bristolvienna.com): a 5-star hotel in a superb location on the Ringstrasse near the opera house, traditionally furnished and decorated.

How strenuous? There is quite a lot of walking on this tour and standing around in galleries. Tram is used on some occasions.

Group size: between 10 and 22 participants.

1–5 July 2016 (mc 749) 5 days • £1,670 Lecturer: Dr József Sisa Explore the cultural riches of Budapest – painting, architecture and decorative arts.

Led by a native art historian with excellent English; walks and visits with a local guide.

Includes a visit to the Danube Bend.

Can be combined with The Danube Festival of Song or booked on its own.

In the heart of Buda a rock outcrop rises abruptly beside the Danube. This was an impregnable citadel around which the city on the right bank developed. Adorning the site is the Royal Palace, now housing a number of museums, the Gothic Matthias Church, the key Hungarian national shrine, and an enclave of picturesque little streets.

Across the river lies Pest, extending with Parisian elegance over less encumbered terrain, a rival and independent city until 1872 when it was formally united with Buda.

Now Budapest is the principal metropolis of East-Central Europe, its vitality and splendour emerging again after the post-war period of Soviet domination.

The fortunes of Hungary have been very mixed since the establishment of the country in the tenth century by the Magyars. At the end of the Middle Ages Hungary was one of

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the most powerful and prosperous kingdoms in Europe, and the most precocious in importing the new Renaissance style of art and architecture. But these achievements were wrecked by a devastating two-hundred-year occupation by the Turks; little survives from before this period.

Much of what was built and created during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries stems from the desire to rival Vienna or to express Hungarian cultural difference and yearnings for independence.

Emulation of western models on the one hand, and cultivation of distinctiveness and originality on the other, are in large part responsible for the allure of Budapest.

Itinerary Day 1. Fly at c. 8.45am from London Heathrow to Budapest (British Airways).

After a light lunch cross the Danube on the 19th century Chain Bridge (built by Scotsman Adam Clark) to the hill-top Castle District of Buda. Within the 18th- and 19th-century Royal Palace are the remains of its mediaeval and Renaissance predecessors. The National Gallery housed here has a marvellous collection of Hungarian art from the Middle Ages to the present day.

Day 2. Begin at parliament where the Crown Jewels are displayed. Walk to Vörösmarty Square, heart of the inner city of Pest;

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thence by underground railway (the first on the continent) to Heroes Square and the Millennary Monument (celebrating the founding of the Hungarian state AD 896).

In the afternoon visit the Hungarian National Museum, a major Neo-Classical structure with an interesting permanent collection on the history of Hungary from the earliest times to 1990.

Day 3. Morning walk to see architecture and decoration from the turn of the 19th century and from the Bauhaus. In the afternoon a guided tour of the magnificent 1880s State Opera House.

Day 4. All-day excursion. Travel by coach along the course of the Danube to Esztergom.

Visit Hungary’s first cathedral, the Bakócz chapel and the Christian Museum, one of the finest in the country.

Day 5. The Museum of Applied Arts (1893–6) is one of Ödön Lechner’s most radical and memorable buildings, elaborated with forms from Hungarian folk art and Asia with symbolic references to Attila the Hun in a determined attempt to create a national style.

Transfer to the MS Amadeus Royal in the afternoon to join The Danube Festival of Song.

(Those not continuing onwards to the festival

fly from Budapest to London Heathrow, arriving at c. 3.00pm.)

Tuesday 12th July. On the final day of the festival, fly from Munich at 12.55pm (British Airways), arriving at Heathrow at 2.00pm (festival flight Option 4 – see page 11).

Lecturer Dr József Sisa.

Art historian and Head of Department at the Research Institute for Art History at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in Budapest. He specialises in the 19th century, in particular public buildings, country houses, Gothic revival and garden history. A native Hungarian with fluent English, he lectures in the UK, across Europe and the USA and co-edited The Architecture of Historic Hungary.

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Practicalities Price: £1,670 (per person, two sharing) or £1,930 (single occupancy). This includes: air travel (economy class) on scheduled British Airways flights (Airbus A320); coach travel for transfers and excursions and by Metro on some occasions; accommodation as described below; breakfasts, 1 lunch, 3 dinners with wine; admission charges; all tips for restaurant staff, drivers and guides; all airport and state taxes; the services of the lecturer and Hungarian local guide. Price without flights: subtract £270.

Accommodation. Intercontinental Hotel, Budapest (budapest.intercontinental.com): a modern, international 5-star hotel excellently situated beside the Danube in Pest and close to the Chain Bridge.

How strenuous? There is quite a lot of walking on the excursions, some on uneven or cobbled ground. Average distance by coach per day: 10 miles.

Group size: between 10 and 22 participants.

Illustration, previous page: Budapest, 20th-century etching by F. Conrad. Above: Budapest, ‘Early Morning’, etching by A. Hugh Fisher c. 1910.

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Option 1: morning, Monday 4th July London Heathrow–Budapest, 08.50–12.20 Includes overnight accommodation in Budapest Price: £250 per person (two sharing) or £300 (sole occupancy).

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Inbound flights. Tick to add to your booking. ☐ Option 4: early-afternoon, Tuesday 12th July Munich–London Heathrow, 12.55–14.00 Price: £90

Pre-festival tours. Tick to book. ☐ Vienna’s Masterpieces, 1–5 July 2016 (mc 741).

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We recommend that you contact us first to ascertain that your preferred accommodation is still available. You can make a booking option which we will hold for one week (longer if necessary) pending receipt of your completed Booking Form and deposit. Alternatively, skip this step by making a definite booking straight away at www.martinrandall.com.

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Please ask us to confirm what protection may apply to your booking. If you do not receive an ATOL Certificate then the booking will not be ATOL protected. If you do receive an ATOL Certificate but all the parts of your trip are not listed on it, those parts will not be ATOL protected. In order to be protected under the ATOL scheme you need to be in the UK when you make your booking and/or one of the flights you take must originate or terminate in the UK with the group.

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Our promises to you We aim to be fair, reasonable and sympathetic in all our dealings with clients, and to act always with integrity.

We will meet all our legal and regulatory responsibilities, often going beyond the minimum obligations.

If you cancel. If you have to cancel your participation in the festival and/or a pre-festival tour, there would be a charge which varies according to the period of notice you give. Up to 57 days before departure the deposit only is forfeited. Thereafter a percentage of the total cost will be due:

We aim to provide full and accurate information about our tours and festivals. If there are changes, we will tell you promptly.

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If something does go wrong, we will try to put it right. Our overriding aim is to ensure that every client is satisfied with our services.

We take as the day of cancellation that on which we receive your written confirmation of cancellation.

What we ask of you

If we cancel the festival or pre-festival tour.

We might decide to cancel the festival or tour if at any time up to eight weeks before there were insufficient bookings for it to be viable. We would refund everything you had paid to us.

That you read the information we send to you.

Specific terms Our contract with you. From the time we receive your signed booking form and initial payment, a contract exists between you and Martin Randall Travel Ltd. Eligibility. We reserve the right to refuse a booking without necessarily giving a reason.

You need to have a level of fitness which would not spoil other participants’ enjoyment of the holiday by slowing them down – see ‘Fitness for the festival’ on page 13. To this end we ask you to take the tests described. By signing the booking form you are stating that you have met these requirements. Those participants who are unable to cope during the festival or pre-festival tour may be required to opt out.

Insurance. It is a requirement of booking that you have adequate holiday insurance for the duration of the festival (and pre-festival tour if booking one of these too). Cover for medical treatment, repatriation, loss of property and cancellation charges must be included. Insurance can be obtained from most insurance companies, banks, travel agencies and (in the UK) many retail outlets including Post Offices.

Passports and visas. Participants must have passports, valid for at least six months beyond the date of the festival. No visas are required for travel in Hungary, Austria, Slovakia or Germany for UK or other EU citizens, or for citizens of

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The limits of our liabilities. As principal, we accept responsibility for all ingredients of the festival or pre-festival tour, except those in which the principle of force majeure prevails. Our obligations and responsibilities are also limited where international conventions apply in respect of air, sea or rail carriers, including the Warsaw Convention and its various updates.

If we make changes. Circumstances might arise which prevent us from operating the festival or pre-festival tour exactly as advertised. We would try to devise a satisfactory alternative, but if the change represents a significant loss to the festival or tour we would offer compensation. If you decide to cancel because the alternative we offer is not acceptable we would give a full refund.

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