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A Festival of Music in
Franconia
Concerts along the Main-Danube Canal 16–23 August 2016
La Serenissima • Barocksolisten München • Dorothee Oberlinger recorder & Sonatori de la Gioiosa Marca • Christiane Karg soprano & Gerold Huber piano • The Mandelring Quartet Mozart Chamber Ensemble • Amphion Wind Octet • Markus Märkl harpsichord
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A Festival of Music in
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Concerts along the Main-Danube Canal 16–23 August 2016
• Nine private concerts in beautiful and appropriate historic buildings. • Musicians of the highest calibre, from Germany, Austria and Britain. • The mainly Baroque and Classical music is appropriate to the buildings in which it is performed. • Daily talks on the music. • Accommodation on board a comfortable modern river cruiser. • All meals are included, provided by the ship’s excellent chefs. • The meticulously planned itinerary is full but relaxing and unobtrusively managed by experienced staff. • Time to explore three wonderful historic cities, Regensburg, Nuremberg and Bamberg.
Two rivers and a canal This new MRT music festival follows the highly successful model we have pioneered since 1994: a succession of private concerts in beautiful and appropriate historic buildings, with the audience accommodated on board a comfortable modern river cruiser where they dine, sleep, relax and listen to lectures. In this case, there are two rivers and a canal: the Danube, the Main and the Rhine-MainDanube Canal.
century. The canal finally opened to traffic in 1992, passing through a region which is one of the scenically most alluring and artistically best endowed in Germany.
The beautiful heart of Germany
The Festival visits three of Germany’s best preserved historic cities, Regensburg, Nuremberg and Bamberg, and there is time to explore their architecture, museums and picturesque streetscape as well as attend concerts in some of their best buildings.
In mediaeval and early modern times Franconia was at the heart, geographically and culturally, of the German-speaking world. By the time it was added to the Electorate of Bavaria in 1803 it was already becoming a backwater. Actually, the festival extends beyond Franconia: Regensburg lies in Bavaria proper, but we hope readers (and Bavarians) will allow us to stretch a point for the sake of simplicity of nomenclature.
Appropriate music in historical buildings
The Programme............................... 5–10
Pre-festival tours:
Booking form................................ 17–18
Joining & leaving the Festival.............. 11
Munich’s Masterpieces.................... 14–15
Making a booking................................ 19
The ship, prices.............................. 12–13
Salzburg Summer................................. 16
Booking conditions............................. 19
The attempt to link the two greatest rivers of Europe via an artificial waterway, and hence the North Sea with the Black Sea, was first attempted by Charlemagne in the eighth
As with most of our festivals, a key feature is that most of the concerts are performed in buildings which are of the same period as the music. Most are in palaces or great country houses, but there is also a church, a town hall and a 17th-century warehouse.
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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, 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 twelve 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.
The 18th century dominates, both musically and architecturally. Mozart pops up regularly, as do Bach and Vivaldi, while Couperin, Telemann, Leclair, Mysliveček, Haydn and other Baroque and Classical composers make appearances. One programme stretches back to 16th-century Venice; others reach forward and include Schubert, Mendelssohn, Mahler and Ravel.
Exclusive access
The comfort of a river cruiser
The concerts are private, being exclusive to around a hundred festival participants who book a package which also provides accommodation on a first-class river cruiser, all meals, flights between London and Munich (if required), travel by luxury coach and talks on the music.
To this exceptional artistic experience is added a further pleasure: the comfort and convenience of the ship, the MS Amadeus Royal, chartered exclusively for the festival audience.
Musicians of the highest quality
The spoken word is an important ingredient of the festival. There are daily talks on the music by Misha Donat. For more than 25 years he was a senior music producer for BBC Radio 3, and has given many radio talks and pre-concert talks at numerous venues in Britain. He writes programme notes, particularly for Wigmore Hall, and CD booklets for many labels, and has lectured at universities here and in the USA.
We have engaged outstanding performers from Britain, Austria and Germany – Bavaria in particular. There are the brilliant period-instrument ensembles La Serenissima, Barocksolisten München and the Amphion Octet; dazzling soloists Markus Märkl (harpsichord), Dorothee Oberlinger (recorder) and Xenia Löffler (oboe); starry soprano Christiane Karg; the world-famous Mandelring Quartet and, new stars rising in Salzburg, the Mozart Chamber Ensemble. The potency of the music is further magnified by the size of the venues, which is modest in comparison with conventional concert halls. This creates an intimacy of musical communication which greatly enhances the artistic experience.
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As both hotel and principal means of transport, the ship enables passengers to attend the concerts and visit some fine buildings in the region without having to change hotel or drive long distances. The succession of fine meals is prepared by the excellent on-board chefs. There is little regimentation, no obligatory seating plan, no onboard entertainment, no intrusive announcements – and absolutely no piped music.
Above left: woodcut by Michael Wolgmut from Hartmann Schedel’s ‘Nuremberg Chronicle’ 1493. Opposite page, top: Regensburg, etching 1909 by Ferdinand Schmutzer (1870–1928). Photograph: La Serenissima ©Eric Richmond.
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Day 1, Tuesday 16th August: Passau Fly from London or Manchester to Munich, from where you are taken by coach to Passau. Alternatively, make your way to Passau independently (for ‘joining and leaving the festival’, see page 11). The ship, MS Amadeus Royal, is ready for boarding from 4.00pm. Afternoon tea is available upon arrival.
Piled up on promontories at the confluence of three rivers, the Bavarian city of Passau is dominated by a great Baroque cathedral and crammed with unspoilt streetscape and historic buildings. It was one of the most important episcopal seats in Central Europe and served as a refuge for the Habsburg court in times of danger. After sailing at 6.30pm there is a reception followed by dinner.
Day 2, Wednesday 17th August: Regensburg The series of daily lectures begins as we finish sailing along the Danube at Regensburg. Regensburg is one of the most delightful and best-preserved cities in Germany. The street layout and much of the architecture dates from the Middle Ages when it was a highly important trading centre, with religious foundations and political institutions to match. The 12th-century stone bridge across the Danube is one of the oldest major river crossings in Europe. There is time to explore the city and visit a museum or two.
Concert, 11.45am Regensburg, Salzstädel, Music for a Mixed Taste: Bach, Leclair, Telemann, Vivaldi La Serenissima Adrian Chandler violin, director Adjacent to the mediaeval stone bridge, with a distinctive high, steep roof, the Salzstädel was built in 1620 to provide secure storage for salt, a function which continued until well into the 19th century. The concert is in the roof space, a complex cradle of massive beams, purlins, rafters and posts.
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Much German music in the Baroque era was a ‘mixed taste’, a fusion of French and Italian styles with the contrapuntalism at which German composers excelled. This programme presents works by Leclair, Vivaldi, Telemann, J.S. Bach and his son Wilhelm Friedrich, performed by five virtuosic members of the brilliant Baroque ensemble La Serenissima. Return to the ship for lunch after the concert. There are up to three hours for rest or for visiting Regensburg before the late-afternoon concert.
Concert, 5.00pm Regensburg, Basilica of St Emmeram, Classical ecclesiastical: Mozart & Zach Barocksolisten München
finalised at the time of publication, but there will probably be pieces by W.A. Mozart and Johann Zach (1699–1773). Return to the ship and sail overnight from Regensburg to Nuremberg.
Formerly a monastery church, the Basilica of St Emmeram is basically Romanesque, but in the 1730s it was transformed into one of the major Baroque interiors of Bavaria with paintings and stucco by the Asam brothers. The Munich Baroque Soloists, a spirited period-instrument ensemble based in Bavaria, present a programme of 18thcentury liturgical music. Details were not Above, left to right: Nuremberg, watercolour by William Callow, publ. 1908; The Amphion Octet; Bamberg Cathedral, lithograph 1839; Adrian Chandler ©Eric Richmond. Left: Barocksolisten München
Acknowledgements This brochure was produced in house. The text was written and edited chiefly by Martin Randall and Maddy Anedda. It was designed by Jo Murray and was sent to print on 17th August 2015. book online at www.martinrandall.com
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Day 3, Thursday 18th August: Nuremberg, Ansbach Moor at Nuremberg on the Main-Danube Canal, twenty minutes by coach from the centre; there is a shuttle service for those who want to explore its riches. An immensely rich trading and manufacturing city in the mediaeval and early modern periods, Nuremberg is girt by massive walls and possesses great art and architecture, particularly of the 15th and 16th centuries. Some of the churches contain outstanding sculpture and other works of art, and museums include the Albrecht Dürer House and the German National Museum, home to the finest collection of German mediaeval and Renaissance art in the country. Coaches leave Nuremberg for Ansbach at 4.00pm. Ansbach was not one of the greater princely states of Germany, but in the 18th century its rulers had large ambitions, dynastic and architectural. A daughter of the margrave, Caroline, became Queen of Great Britain as wife of George II; and in a region where palaces abound, stimulated by competitiveness and the absolutist desire to impress, their residence and nearby gardens stand out for their size and artistry. The state apartments survive little altered from the 18th century. info@martinrandall.co.uk
Concert, 6.30pm Ansbach, the Residenz, Mozart & Bohemian friends, Myslivecek, Družecký, Triebensee
Day 4, Friday 19th August: Bamberg
Amphion Wind Octet Xenia Löffler oboe, director The Festsaal of the Residenz, dating to the 1730s, is a glorious statement of the power and enlightenment of the Ansbach margraves. Many of the best wind players in 18thcentury Europe were Bohemians by birth, including most of those for whom Mozart composed. This programme presents Mozart’s Serenade in C minor (K.366), pieces by Josef Mysliveček and Jiří Družecký, and Josef Triebensee’s arrangements of Mozart’s Don Giovanni. Founded in 1998, the Berlin-based, periodinstrument Amphion Wind Ensemble have delighted audiences in many European countries and have become regulars at MRT festivals. Members are graduates of Schola Cantorum Basiliensis and are distinguished soloists in their own right. The group has recorded music by Krommer, Triebensee, Mozart, Rosetti and Beethoven. After the concert, return to the ship for dinner and sail overnight to Bamberg.
One of the loveliest and least spoilt of German towns, Bamberg has fine streetscape, riverside walks and an enchanting upper town. The Romanesque cathedral here houses sculpture of the highest importance, including the Bamberg Rider, a potent image of knightly values. There are coach shuttles to the centre during the morning. Drive in the afternoon through rolling countryside to the little village of Pommersfelden, location of Schloss Weissenstein, the country retreat of Bishop Lothar Franz von Schönborn. This is one of the great houses in Germany, built 1711–18 by Johann Dientzenhofer, member of the leading Franconian dynasty of architects. Schönborn was Bishop of Bamberg and Archbishop of Mainz and one of the most influential figures in the Holy Roman Empire.
Concert, 3.15pm Schloss Weissenstein, Pommersfelden, The Four Seasons: Mossi, Telemann, Pisendel & Vivaldi La Serenissima Adrian Chandler violin, director The grand stairway at Schloss Pommersfelden is one of the grandest in Europe, and the magnificent Marble Hall has frescoes by
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Johann Michael Rottmayr, the greatest Austrian painter of the era. La Serenissima was founded in 1994 by violinist Adrian Chandler primarily to perform the music of Vivaldi. They are among the world’s finest exponents of the Red Priest’s prolific output, performing with exceptional vivacity and sensitivity, throughout Britain and many other countries. Their highly acclaimed recent recording of Vivaldi’s I Quattro Stagioni is the outcome of over two decades of thought and study. This afternoon’s setting is ideal – a Baroque hall in lovely countryside. Pieces by Mossi, Telemann and Pisendel furnish the first half of the concert. Return to the ship for dinner, and then drive to the Domplatz in Bamberg. This is one of Europe’s finest urban spaces, an irregular square bounded by the Romanesque cathedral, a mediaeval and Renaissance range which was once an imperial court, a low wall affording views over one of the loveliest of German cities and two blocks of the episcopal palace, the Neues Residenz. This was constructed and largely decorated 1695–1710, also by Dientzenhofer for Prince-Bishop Schönborn.
Concert, 9.00pm Bamberg, Neue Residenz, Bach et le bon goût: Couperin, d’Anglebert, Bach Markus Märkl harpsichord The Imperial Apartment on the top floor begins with the Kaisersaal (Imperial Hall) whose walls and ceiling are entirely covered in frescoes depicting a history of the Habsburgs, flamboyantly and flatteringly. Around the turn of the 17th and 18th centuries – the date of this hall – a harpsichord style of exceptional refinement and richness of sound developed in France. This had a major impact on Bach’s writing for the instrument. Tonight’s programme includes pieces by François Couperin and Jean-Henri d’Anglebert, and to these are added two of Bach’s essays in the French style, Fantasia pro Cembalo et Fugue en la mineur (BWV 904) and Ouverture nach Französischer Art (BWV 831). Bavarian-born Marcus Märkl is one of Germany’s leading harpsichordists. He studied at Augsburg and at the Schola Cantorum, Basel, and moved to Paris in 1995 and to Cologne in 1998. He is a member of the CordArt ensemble and on the board of the Cologne Festival of Early Music.
Day 5, Saturday 20th August: Bamberg After a leisurely morning sailing along the Main, return to Bamberg in the afternoon for another opportunity to explore the city. There are more fine churches to see, a porcelain museum, the Diocesan Museum, and plenty of attractive walks. After an early supper drive to Schloss Seehof on the outskirts of Bamberg for an evening concert.
Concert, 8.00pm Bamberg, Schloss Seehof, Flauto Veneziano: music for recorder Sonatori de la Gioiosa Marca Dorothee Oberlinger recorder, director The imposing summer residence of the Prince-Bishops of Bamberg began to be built in 1686 on a low hill outside the city. It has four domed corner towers and assertive Baroque ornamentation. The White Hall inside could hardly be more different: redecorated in Rococo style in 1753, its walls are delicately painted in white and blue, and the ceiling fresco of Parnassus by Giuseppe Appiani is light-hearted and gorgeous.
Return to the ship for the night.
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Under this Italian ceiling there is a concert of Venetian flute concertos from the 16th century to the 18th. It showcases the extraordinary talent of Dorothee Oberlinger, one of Germany’s leading recorder players. Since 2004 she has taught as Professor of Recorder at the Mozarteum, Salzburg. She directs her own group, Ensemble 1700, as well as performing and recording with other leading period-instrument groups. Founded in Treviso (a city in the Veneto awarded during the Renaissance the epithet ‘Marca Gioiosa’), the Sonatori de la Gioiosa Marca have become one of the most acclaimed period instrument groups in Italy, renowned both for their Vivaldi interpretations and for their study of lesserknown composers of the Veneto. Return to the ship and sail overnight to Nuremberg.
Above, left to right: copper engraving c. 1770 by Victor Marie Picot (1744–1805) after a painting by Benedetto Luti; Markus Märkl ©Myriam Rehse; Dorothee Oberlinger ©Johannes Ritter; The Mandelring Quartet ©Uwe Arens; Nuremberg, Altes Rathaus, steel engraving c. 1845. Right: (top) Gerold Huber ©Marion Koell; (below) Christiane Karg ©Gisela Schenker.
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Day 6, Sunday 21st August: Nuremberg There is a short drive from the mooring to Schloss Faber Castell. Founded in 1771, the Faber-Castell firm is still in family ownership and is still making pencils (and crayons and cosmetics) on this site on the edge of Nuremberg. In the 1840s the family rehoused themselves in an impressive neo-mediaeval castle, and then doubled its size 1903–6.
sung at other major opera houses. This season she makes her US debut at the Lyric Opera, Chicago, and her house debut at ROH Covent Garden, singing Pamina. Gerold Huber, another Bavarian, is a chamber music player and acclaimed accompanist. The afternoon is free for more visits in Nuremberg before converging for the 5.30pm concert at the Altes Rathaus (Old Town Hall). As one of Europe’s most prosperous trade and
Concert, 10.30am Nuremberg, Schloss Faber-Castell, Fairies & Myths: Mahler & contemporaries Christiane Karg soprano Gerold Huber piano Externally forbidding, the principal interiors of Schloss Faber-Castell come as a glorious surprise. A stunning white marble stair hall leads up to a suite of lavishly decorated reception rooms on the top floor, an outstanding example of Jugenstil, a Central European version of Art Nouveau. The programme, not yet finalised, will have some songs of this period, with composers including Gustav Mahler. Christiane Karg was born in Bavaria, and studied at the Salzburg Mozarteum and at the Verona Conservatory. In 2008 she joined the ensemble of Frankfurt Opera, and has book online at www.martinrandall.com
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manufacturing centres, and as an independent ‘free imperial city’, it is little surprise that Nuremberg built for itself a town hall which ranked among the grandest of mediaeval civic buildings. The original wing was begun in 1332 but it was periodically extended.
Concert, 5.30pm Nuremberg, Altes Rathaus, String quartets: Haydn, Ravel, Mendelssohn The Mandelring Quartet The 40-metre great hall on the first floor of the Old Town Hall has Gothic tracery in its windows and an impressive timber barrelvaulted roof of 1521, reconstructed in the 1980s after war-time destruction. This is one programme which has practically nothing to do with the setting: Haydn, Quartet in D, Op.71 No.2; Ravel, Quartet in F; Mendelssohn, String Quartet in E minor, Op.44 No.2. Again from southern Germany, the Mandelring Quartet are famed for their expressiveness and homogeneity of sound and phrasing. They have won several prestigious prizes, and perform in major venues and festivals worldwide. Their recordings include string quartets by Schubert, Schumann, Mendelssohn and Janáček. Return to the ship after the concert and sail through the night.
Day 7, Monday 22nd August: Regensburg The morning is spent sailing to Regensburg. There is more free time here before the late afternoon concert in Schloss Thurn and Taxis, which incorporates much of the monastic fabric of the ancient monastery of St Emmeram and is one of the largest private residences in Europe.
Concert, 5.00pm Regensburg, Schloss Thurn und Taxis, Opus 29: Haydn, Mozart, Schubert Mozart Chamber Ensemble Wolfgang Redik violin, director The monastery of St Emmeram was dissolved in 1810 and given to Prince von Thurn und Taxis, whose forebears had invented the postal service and ran it on behalf of the Holy Roman Emperors for over three hundred years. His descendants still live here. The wonderful Rococo ballroom was put together in the 19th century but recycles 18th-century ornamentation from another of their palaces.
Engaging leading musicians from Austria and central Europe, the Ensemble was founded by Austrian violinist Wolfgang Redik. For nearly 30 years he was a member of the Vienna Piano Trio, and is now in demand as guest soloist, conductor and teacher around the world, and has a professorship at the Salzburg Mozarteum. Commitment, verve, and intense musicality are qualities that will be on show for this, the final concert of the festival. Return to the ship for a reception and dinner. Sail downstream overnight to Passau.
Day 8, Tuesday 23rd August: 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 flight Option 2 allows for four hours of independent sightseeing in Munich.
The Mozart Chamber Ensemble from Salzburg provide the final concert in this celebratory setting. There is a string quartet by Schubert (Op.29, ‘Rosamunde’) and two symphonies, by Haydn (No.29 in E flat) and Mozart (No.29 in A, K.201). (The recurrence of 29 is coincidental.) Above: Passau, engraving by Hannes Rischert.
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Joining & leaving the festival Flights from the UK We are offering a choice of three scheduled Lufthansa flights to Munich, from London or Manchester. Please note that each outbound flight is tied to a particular inbound flight. You cannot mix flights from different options.
Option 1: Heathrow, lunch at Landshut Fly from London Heathrow to Munich at 9.05am (LH 2471, departing Heathrow 09.05, arriving Munich 11.55). Break the journey to Passau with lunch at Landshut, a former capital of Bavaria. There are two hours here, and it should be possible to see the main street with its Renaissance and Baroque house fronts, the great Gothic church of St Martin or the precociously Italianate Renaissance ducal palace. Return to London Heathrow at 3.35pm (LH 2476, departing Munich 14.35, arriving London Heathrow 15.35).
Option 2: Heathrow, free time in Munich Fly from London Heathrow to Munich at 11.05am (LH 2473, departing London Heathrow 11.05, arriving Munich 13.55). Drive directly from Munich Airport to the ship at Passau, a journey of under two hours. Return to London Heathrow at 7.20pm (LH 2480, departing Munich 18.20, arriving Heathrow 19.20). Coaches take you first to the centre of Munich, where you have about four hours of free time, before continuing to the airport.
Option 3: Manchester Fly from Manchester to Munich at 10.50am (LH 2501, departing Manchester 10.50, arriving Munich 13.50). Drive directly from Munich Airport to the ship at Passau, a journey of under two hours. Return to Manchester at 4.30pm (LH 2502, departing Munich 15.25, arriving Manchester 16.30). Coaches take you first to the centre of Munich, where you have about two hours of free time, before continuing to the airport.
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Option 4: no flights
Munich’s Masterpieces, 12–16 August 2016 (mc 802). Friday 12th August: fly from London Heathrow to Munich at 11.05am. Tuesday 26 August: fly from Munich to London Heathrow, arriving at 3.35pm (festival flight Option 1). See pages 14–15 for full details of this tour.
You can choose not to take any of these flights and to make your own arrangements for joining at Passau, boarding the ship between 4.00pm and 6.00pm. You are welcome to join one of the group transfers from Munich Airport. There is a price reduction for this ‘no flights’ option of £200 per person.
Salzburg Summer, 10–16 August 2016. Full details for this tour will be available in December. Some preliminary information is given on page 16. Please register your interest in the meantime.
It is not usually possible to arrange connecting flights with other regional UK airports.
Above: engraving after William Hogarth (1697–1764).
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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.
Haydn deck (lowest) Two sharing: £3,320 per person *Single occupancy: £3,990
Strauss deck (middle) Two sharing: £3,970 per person *Single occupancy: £4,760
Mozart deck (top) Two sharing: £4,410 per person *Single occupancy: £5,290
The festival package The price includes:
Suites (Mozart deck)
Admission to all nine concerts.
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.
Two sharing: £5,180 per person
Accommodation for seven nights on board a first-class river cruiser.
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.
*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 £4,310; Strauss £5,160; Mozart £5,720).
There are no single cabins as such but we are allocating some two-bed cabins for single occupancy.
No-flights option If you do not want one of the festival flights, subtract £200 from the prices above. (See page 11 for flight options.)
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. Information about the ship is available at www.lueftner-cruises.at
All meals, from dinner on the first day to breakfast on the last. Wine is provided with lunch and dinner. 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.
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). Right: Nuremberg, lithograph c. 1830 after Samuel Prout.
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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.
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.
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Self-assessment tests. There is no age limit for this festival or pre-festival tours, but we do ask that prospective participants assess their fitness by trying these simple exercises:
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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. 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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Munich’s Masterpieces 12–16 August 2016 (mc 802) 5 days • £1,660 Lecturer: Patrick Bade A short and sharp study of the art and architecture of the Bavarian capital. Also the key architectural monuments and characteristic streetscape. The lecturer is the art historian and writer Patrick Bade. Can be combined with A Festival of Music in Franconia or booked on its own. Munich is everyone’s favourite German city. Not only is it the most prosperous in the country, but the attractiveness of the cityscape, the abundance of cultural activity, the relatively relaxed lifestyle and generally amenable ambience make it the most soughtafter place to live and work in Germany.
Art & architecture in the capital of Bavaria
The seat of the Wittelsbachs, who ruled Bavaria from 1255 until 1918 as Counts, Dukes, Electors and, from 1806, as Kings, Munich was a city which grew up around a court, not one spawned by trade or industry. Consequently, artistically and architecturally it is still one of the best-endowed centres in Europe. There are fine buildings of every period, and it is also a city of museums. The Alte Pinakothek has one of the finest collections of Old Masters in the world, and the Treasury in the Residenz and the classical sculpture in the Glyptothek are among the best collections of their kind. The accompanying lecturer, Patrick Bade, is an art historian with a wide range of knowledge and a deep understanding of contemporary Germany.
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Pre-festival tour Itinerary Day 1. Fly at c. 11.00am from London Heathrow to Munich. An afternoon walk passes through the core of the historic city. See the vast Gothic cathedral, the 19thcentury city hall and the little Baroque church of St John Nepomuk created by the Asam brothers. Day 2. By coach along some of the principal streets and boulevards of the city to see architecture of the 19th and 20th centuries. Disembark in the vicinity of the main art galleries and visit the Alte Pinakothek, one of the world’s greatest collections of Old Masters. After lunch continue to Königsplatz, a noble assembly of Neoclassical museums, and visit the Glyptothek, an outstanding collection of Greek and Roman sculpture. The Lenbachhaus has an outstanding collection of German Expressionist paintings.
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Day 3. The morning is spent in the Residenz, rambling palace of the Wittelsbach dynasty, Dukes, Electors and Kings of Bavaria, with sumptuous interiors of the highest arthistorical importance from Renaissance to Romantic, and a marvellous Rococo theatre. After lunch visit the excellent collections of sculpture and decorative arts at the Bavarian National Museum. Day 4. On the edge of Munich, Nymphenburg is one of the finest palace complexes of the 17th and 18th centuries, with main palace, park, gardens and pavilions. The delightful Amalienburg represents the apogee of secular Rococo interiors, and the carriage museum has sleighs made for King Ludwig II. Return to the centre of Munich and visit the Neue Pinakothek, which houses paintings from the 18th to the early 20th centuries. Day 5. A morning walk includes the vast Gothic cathedral and the Town Museum which displays among many other artworks the famous Gothic Morris dancers, created by Erasmus Grasser for the festival hall of the Altes Rathaus. Some free time. After lunch a guided tour of the Villa Stuck, a museum and historic Art Nouveau house dedicated to the works of the Bavarian painter, Franz Stuck. Transfer from Munich to Passau by minbus to join A Festival of Music in Franconia. (Those not continuing onwards to the festival fly from Munich to London Heathrow arriving at c. 5.15pm.) Tuesday 26 August. On the final day of the festival, fly from Munich at 2.40pm arriving at London Heathrow at 3.40pm (festival flight Option 1 – see page 11).
Lecturer Patrick Bade. Historian and writer with wideranging art-historical and musical interests. Educated at University College London and the Courtauld Institute he was senior lecturer at Christies Education for many years. He has also worked for the Art Fund, the Royal Opera House, the National Gallery, Victoria & Albert Museum and spoken on Radio 3 and 4 and Classic FM Radio. He has published extensively on 19th and early 20th Century painting (Ingres, Courbet, Degas, Renoir, Rops, Mucha, Lautrec, Tamara de Lempicka etc) and on historical vocal recordings. His latest book Music Wars 1937–1945, an account of how music was used in World War II, is due to be re-published in German translation in 2015.
Practicalities Price: £1,660. This includes: air travel (economy class) on scheduled Lufthansa flights (Airbus A320); accommodation as described below; travel by private coach for transfers and excursions; breakfasts and 3 dinners with wine; all admission charges; all state and airport taxes; all gratuities for restaurant staff, drivers and guides; the services of the lecturer. Single supplement £260 (double for single occupancy). Price without flights £1,470. Should you choose to combine this tour with A Festival of Music in Franconia, the latter will be charged at the ‘no flights’ price. The transfer between Munich and Passau is included. Accommodation. Hotel Torbräu (torbraeu. de): a friendly, family-run, 4-star hotel in the city centre.
All-inclusive festivals in 2016 We will run the following, in addition to A Festival of Music in Franconia: The Suffolk Festival: Music of Tudor & Stuart England. 13–16 June 2016. Contact us for full details or visit www.martinrandall.com. The Seine Music Festival. 23–30 June 2016. Contact us for full details or visit www.martinrandall.com. The Danube Festival of Song. 5–12 July 2016. Contact us for full details or visit www.martinrandall.com. A Festival of Music in Florence. 16–22 October 2016. Full details will be available in November 2015. Contact us to register your interest.
How strenuous? There is quite a lot of walking and standing around in galleries. Participants need to be able to keep up with a group of averagely fit people. Group size: between 10 and 22 participants.
Left: Munich, Marienplatz, etching by J. Neumann c. 1910. Above: Schloss Nymphenburg, engraving c. 1770.
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Salzburg Summer 10–16 August 2016 Lecturer: Professor Jan Smaczny Full details available in December 2015 Contact us to register your interest The world’s most prestigious music festival. Talks and discussion about the musical fare, visits and excursions in the exceptionally lovely little city of Salzburg and its peerless mountain surrounds, and meals in the best restaurants. Led by musicologist, author and lecturer Professor Jan Smaczny. Can be combined with A Festival of Music in Franconia or booked on its own.
The greatest festival of them all Pre-festival tour Salzburg’s Summer Festival continues to provide the highest standards of performance with a healthy mix of timeless values and cutting-edge ideas. After somewhat turbulent times, it has emerged in the last decade with its reputation undimmed, even enhanced, the controversial innovations and artistic policies having served to renew and revitalise an institution which could so easily have slipped into complacent decline. All this in one of the loveliest cities in Europe. Salzburg is crammed between a fast-flowing river and steep-sided hills, with domes and towers and a formidable castle – the largest in Central Europe – rising above a wonderfully picturesque streetscape. A virtually independent city-state until the nineteenth
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century, it was ruled by Prince-Archbishops many of whom were lavish patrons of architecture and music. There are daily talks on the music and a gentle programme of walks and drives to see the best of the art, architecture and landscape in the vicinity. But there is also plenty of free time to relax and gather energies for the performances. Full details will be available in December. Please register your interest.
Below: Salzburg, lithograph c. 1840.
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☐ Option 1: Heathrow, lunch at Landshut 16th August: London Heathrow–Munich, 09.05–11.55 23rd August: Munich–London Heathrow, 14.35–15.35 ☐ Option 2: Heathrow, free time in Munich 16th August: London Heathrow–Munich, 11.05–13.55 23rd August: Munich–London Heathrow, 18.20–19.20 ☐ Option 3: Manchester 16th August: Manchester–Munich, 10.50–13.50 23rd August: Munich–Manchester, 15.25–16.30 ☐ Option 4: No flights. I will make my own travel arrangements to and from the Festival.
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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. We aim to provide full and accurate information about our tours and festivals. If there are changes, we will tell you promptly. 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.
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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 this 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 Germany for UK or other EU citizens, or for citizens of the USA, Canada, Australia
If you cancel. If you have to cancel your participation in the festival and/or the prefestival 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: from 56 to 29 days: from 28 to 15 days: from 14 to 3 days: within 48 hours:
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We take as the day of cancellation that on which we receive your written confirmation of cancellation. 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. The limits of our liabilities. As principal, we accept responsibility for all ingredients of the festival or 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 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. Financial protection. We provide full financial protection for our package holidays which include international flights, by way of our Air Travel Organiser’s Licence number 3622. When you buy an ATOL protected flight inclusive holiday from us you receive an ATOL Certificate. This lists what is financially protected, where you can get information on what this means for you and who to contact if things go wrong. Most of our flights and flight-inclusive holidays on our website and in our brochure are financially protected by the ATOL scheme. But ATOL protection does not apply to all holiday and travel services listed.
We provide full financial protection for our package holidays that do not include a flight, by way of a bond held by ABTA The Travel Association. We will provide you with the services listed on the ATOL Certificate (or a suitable alternative). In some cases, where we aren’t able do so for reasons of insolvency, an alternative ATOL holder may provide you with the services you have bought or a suitable alternative (at no extra cost to you). You agree to accept that in those circumstances the alternative ATOL holder will perform those obligations and you agree to pay any money outstanding to be paid by you under your contract to that alternative ATOL holder. However, you also agree that in some cases it will not be possible to appoint an alternative ATOL holder, in which case you will be entitled to make a claim under the ATOL scheme (or your credit card issuer where applicable). If we, or the suppliers identified on your ATOL certificate, are unable to provide the services listed (or a suitable alternative, through an alternative ATOL holder or otherwise) for reasons of insolvency, the Trustees of the Air Travel Trust may make a payment to (or confer a benefit on) you under the ATOL scheme. You agree that in return for such a payment or benefit you assign absolutely to those Trustees any claims which you have or may have arising out of or relating to the non-provision of the services, including any claim against us (or your credit card issuer where applicable). You also agree that any such claims maybe re-assigned to another body, if that other body has paid sums you have claimed under the ATOL scheme. English Law. These conditions form part of your contract with Martin Randall Travel Ltd and are governed by English law. All proceedings shall be within the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of England and Wales.
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Above: Bamberg, Rathaus, etching 1929 by M. Schnรถs. All the illustrations in this brochure are in the MRT collection.
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