Music in the Cotswolds The Tallis Scholars | Peter Phillips director Gabrieli Consort | Paul McCreesh director Orchestra of St John’s | John Lubbock conductor | Mathilde Milwidsky violin The English Cornett & Sackbut Ensemble Matthew Long tenor
21–24 May 2018
Contents The Programme.............................................................. 4–7 More about the festival.......................................................8 The concerts | The speaker Pre- and post-festival | The festival package
Practicalities.........................................................................9 Travelling to and from the festival | Fitness
Accommodation & Prices.........................................10–11 Pre- and post-festival....................................................... 12 Booking form..............................................................13–14 Booking details & conditions......................................... 15
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Music in the Cotswolds Six private performances of English music in towns and villages in the Cotswolds, England’s prettiest region. Renaissance polyphony, 20th-century anthems, cornetts and sackbuts, orchestral rhapsodies, folk and art song. The Tallis Scholars, Gabrieli Consort, Orchestra of St John’s, The English Cornett & Sackbut Ensemble, tenor Matthew Long. Concerts in four glorious mediaeval churches, a Regency hall, and an Arts and Crafts home. Choose from five hotels, all traditional countrystyle properties with modern facilities.
21–24 May 2018
Quite simply, there is no prettier part of England than the Cotswolds. The topography of hills and hidden valleys, the exquisitely variegated textures from centuries of farming and grazing, myriad dry-stone walls and ancient hedges, abundant broadleaf woodland and exceptionally picturesque villages: these are reasons enough to visit. As a region to choose for a festival of music, however, the clincher is the cluster of great mediaeval churches. Products of the wealth generated by the wool trade, these mini-cathedrals are among the most beautiful of the parish churches of Europe, and can comfortably seat an audience of a hundred or so. Other venues are a grand Regency hall and an Arts & Crafts home. The music is as beautiful as you would want to hear. Largely English, it ranges from Renaissance polyphony with The Tallis Scholars, world-leaders in their genre, to the burst of bucolic late Romanticism from the great composers of the earlier twentieth century performed by the Orchestra of St John’s.
There is the sumptuous sonority of Tudor-era wind instruments from the English Cornett & Sackbut Ensemble, the stirring magnificence of English anthems with the incomparable Gabrieli Consort, and folk songs and their art song derivatives with the young tenor, Matthew Long. Six concerts in all, and like all our festivals, they are private occasions, with access exclusive to those who take the full package which includes accommodation, dinners, talks, transport to each venue and much else besides. Another feature in favour of the Cotswolds are the good-quality hotels. We have selected five for you to choose from. Between the concerts there is free time in which to explore the lovely towns and villages in which the hotels and concerts are located.
Cover and this page: Cirencester, aquatint 1793 by Joseph Constantine Stadler after Joseph Farington (1747–1821). Left: Northleach, Church of St Peter and St Paul, lithograph published by Vincent Brooks Day & Son c. 1875.
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The Programme Protestant England: sacred music for early Anglicans The Tallis Scholars | Peter Phillips director Church of St Mary, Fairford Weelkes: O Lord, arise, When David heard – Tomkins: When David heard, Almighty God, the fountain of all wisdom – Mundy: O Lord, the maker of all things – Byrd: Great Service Te Deum – Tallis: Te Deum ‘for meanes’ – Byrd: O God, the proud – Tomkins: O God, the proud – Blow: O Lord God of my salvation – Purcell: O God, thou art my God This programme surveys a cappella Anglican music as it developed after the initial Protestant experiments and on into the later 17th century. Here are some of the most remarkable composers ever to write for the Church in English – from Byrd, through Weelkes and Tomkins, to Purcell and Blow – culminating in Purcell’s O God thou art my God, which sums up a hundred years of spectacular musical composition.
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With over four decades of performance and a catalogue of award-winning recordings, Peter Phillips and The Tallis Scholars have done more than any other group to establish sacred vocal music of the Renaissance as one of the great repertoires of Western classical music. They have brought Renaissance works to a wide audience in churches, cathedrals and concert halls on every continent except Antarctica (plans to remedy this omission are in progress). One of England’s greatest ‘wool’ churches, the chief glory of St Mary’s at Fairford is the stained glass – the only complete set of mediaeval narrative glass in England. In this sequence the artist and royal glazier, Barnard Flower, portrays the history of the Christian Church. Remarkably, Fairford also holds the largest surviving collection of late mediaeval woodwork.
Left: Fairford, Church of St Mary, wood engraving 1896 after a drawing by W.H.J. Boot. Below: The Tallis Scholars ©Nick Rutter.
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‘Till the stars fall’: the traditional in English art song
‘Music for Windy Instruments’: cornetts, sackbuts & virginals
Matthew Long tenor | Pianist tbc | Guitarist tbc
The English Cornett & Sackbut Ensemble
Rodmarton Manor
St Peter & St Paul, Northleach
Traditional songs with guitar accompaniment: The Turtle Dove – She Moved through the Fair – The Ash Grove – O Waly Waly – The Last Rose of Summer – The Parting Glass – Auld Lang Syne. Songs with piano accompaniment, Holst: The Thought – Quilter: Go, Lovely Rose – Weep You No More, Sad Fountains – Vaughan Williams: Tired – traditional: Orpheus with his Lute – Butterworth: Six songs from a Shropshire Lad – Finzi: Oh Fair to See.
Parsons: The Song Called Trumpets – Tye: In nomine ‘crye’ – Byrd: Miserere – Christe qui lux – Henry VIII: If Love Now Reynyd – Holborne: Pavane & Galliard – Ferrabosco: Exaudi, Deus – Coperario: Fantasia – Bassano: Fantasia – Anon.: O sancta Maria virgo – The Short Measure Off My Lady Wynkfyld’s Round – Uppon la mi re
The traditional melodies and stories of these Isles were an integral part of the musical palette of our best known English art song composers. Here, Matthew presents gems of the English song repertoire alongside his own arrangements of traditional songs for voice and guitar from across the British Isles.
Instrumental music rarely achieves such sonorous beauty as with the rarely-heard but evocative pairing of sackbuts (renaissance trombones) and cornett – that hybrid renaissance wind instrument capable of such vocality and virtuosity. This programme shows the range of English music for these and other instruments whose heyday lasted from the reign of Henry VIII to the eve of the Civil War.
In 2018, The English Cornett & Sackbut Ensemble celebrates twenty-five years spent at the forefront of the early music scene. In that time the group has performed at many major music festivals and concert halls in the UK and abroad, sometimes in collaboration with other ensembles. They have been involved in many memorable recordings, including Flower Of Cities All with music from Shakespeare’s London and the award-winning Striggio Mass in 40 Parts with I Fagiolini. In the 15th century Northleach was the premier wool-town of the Cotswolds. The wealth this brought found magnificent expression in the staggeringly beautiful Perpendicular church of St Peter and St Paul, which is situated in a tree-lined churchyard on the edge of the village. The interior, brilliantly lit through large clear windows, is full of fascinating mediaeval features including the country’s finest assembly of monumental brasses.
Below left: Matthew Long ©Ria Mishaal. Below right: The English Cornett & Sackbut Ensemble ©Kate Mount.
As a boy treble, Matthew Long toured Italy as Miles in Britten’s The Turn of the Screw. After studying music at the University of York and the Royal College, he worked with some of the UK’s most highly regarded ensembles including The Sixteen, Tenebrae and I Fagiolini, and has been a soloist with leading orchestras. Opera roles include the lead in Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo, first in Venice in 2016 for Martin Randall Travel. He has recently made a recording of British folk songs, classical songs and orchestral arrangements of well known anthems. Rodmarton Manor is one of the finest secular accomplishments of the Arts and Crafts movement. In keeping with the ethos promoted by William Morris and John Ruskin, the house was built and furnished (1909–26) using traditional techniques, local materials and local craftsmen. Also local designers: Ernest and Sidney Barnsley were leading lights in the Cotswolds-based Arts and Crafts phenomenon. The house was commissioned by the Biddulph family, who still live here and have graciously allowed this concert. book online at www.martinrandall.com
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The Programme, continued Orchestral Rhapsody: the spirit of English Romanticism Orchestra of St John’s | John Lubbock conductor Mathilde Milwidsky violin Soprano tbc Pittville Pump Room, Cheltenham Delius: On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring – Summer Night on the River – Vaughan Williams: The Lark Ascending – Quilter: Songs – Walton: Two Pieces from Henry V – Warlock: Capriol Suite – Holst: Brook Green Suite – Britten: Folksongs – Finzi: Rhapsody Masterpieces from the English Rhapsodic tradition, the expression of deep feeling which constitutes a culmination of Romanticism in music. Imbued with love of nature and the countryside, tempered in some cases by experience of the First World Wars. The Orchestra of St John’s was founded fifty years ago by its director, John Lubbock, to build an orchestra that would serve the community and not just be part of the ‘music scene’. Its original home was St John’s Smith Square in Westminster but its centre of gravity has now shifted to Oxfordshire. OSJ appears regularly at concert halls and festivals throughout the country.
The community bias has been the main drive behind John’s tireless enthusiasm to make the highest quality of music-making available to those who might otherwise have had little or no musical experience, and he has gathered around him a group of outstanding performers who share his ethos. In 2015 he was awarded an OBE for services to music and to people with autism and learning difficulties. The Pittville Pump Room is the magnificent centrepiece of comprehensive development of an estate on the edge of Cheltenham built in the 1820s. In Greek Revival style, it is the last and largest of the buildings erected to cater for visitors to Cheltenham in the wake of the discovery of curative waters in the early 18th century and overlooks the lawns and lakes of Pittville Park. The Main Hall is in regular use for concerts. Above: Cheltenham, Pitville Pump Room, steel engraving c. 1850. Left: Mathilde Milwidsky; John Lubbock.
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Catholic England: the last of Latin polyphony The Tallis Scholars | Peter Phillips director St John the Baptist, Burford Taverner: Magnificat (a 6), Quemadmodum – Mundy: In aeternum – White: Exaudiat te – Byrd: Mass for All Saints – Sheppard: Laudem dicite Deo – Mundy: Vox Patris caelestis In their second appearance at this festival, The Tallis Scholars present two of the most elaborate pieces ever written in England for the Catholic Church: John Taverner’s six-part Magnificat and William Mundy’s Vox patris caelestis, arguably the culmination of the great antiphon tradition. Sandwiched between them are some dazzling masterpieces, including Byrd’s Propers for All Saints Day, a response by John Sheppard for men’s voices only and Robert White’s astonishing Exaudiat te, with an Amen to end all Amens.
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Taverner was composing when there was no Church in England other than the thousand-year-old Catholic one. The Catholic musical tradition continued to evolve to the end of Henry VIII’s reign, little molested by Protestant principles, and after the Puritan interlude under Edward VI there was a mini Counter-Reformation under Mary I (1553–58), to the great benefit of composers such as Mundy, Sheppard and White. But thereafter the Reformists gained the upper hand, and recusants like William Byrd ran great risks by secretly composing for the Catholic liturgy. It is possible that his royal employer was aware but turned a blind eye; Elizabeth’s extravagant musical tastes were unconstrained by her avowed Protestantism. The exceptional loveliness of the little town of Burford is not let down by its church, which Simon Jenkins rates as the finest in Oxfordshire. Unlike the other major Cotswolds churches, St John the Baptist is the outcome of piecemeal accretion from the 12th century onwards, funded by individual families rather than a syndicate of citizens. Nor is the church let down by its excellent Victorian glass, which is largely by Charles Kempe.
Visions & Mystics: five great twentieth-century anthems Gabrieli Consort | Paul McCreesh director Organist tbc St John the Baptist, Cirencester Walton: The Twelve (1965) – Howells: A Sequence for St Michael (1961) – Vaughan Williams: A Vision of Aeroplanes (1956) – Finzi: Lo, the full, final sacrifice (1946) – Britten: Rejoice in the Lamb (1943). This is a sequence of five of the most spectacular anthems of the mid-20th century. Transcending liturgical propriety, these works achieve imaginative, almost symphonic levels of expression, setting texts ranging from the ecstatic to the apocalyptic, the sublime to the ridiculous, the universal to the intensely personal. Underpinned by organ parts of the most demanding virtuosity,
Visions & Mystics is a thrilling display of the Gabrieli Consort at its most daring and dynamic. Founded and led by artistic director Paul McCreesh, Gabrieli perform and record great choral and instrumental repertoire from the Renaissance to the present day. They have won an international reputation for excellence, innovation and ambition. Through lively music-making, committed research and the production of ground-breaking recordings, Gabrieli’s mission is to challenge common and accepted perceptions of classical music, and to re-invigorate and innovate in order to sustain the relevance of great art in the 21st century. By some measures the largest parish church in the country, St John the Baptist is the most splendid of the Cotswolds ‘wool’ churches. Its celebrated three-storey south porch is also the largest in England. Inside, the sheer height and width of the three great aisles of the nave, rebuilt 1516–30, are breathtaking. The chancel is 13th- and 14th-century. The organ was built by Father Willis in 1895 and rebuilt by Harrison & Harrison in 2009. Right: Cirencester, St John the Baptist, engraving c. 1900. Above left to right: Peter Phillips ©Eric Richmond; Paul McCreesh ©Andy Staples.
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More about the festival The concerts Exclusive access. The concerts are private, being planned and administered by Martin Randall Travel exclusively for an audience consisting of those who have taken the full festival package. Seats. Specific seats are not reserved. You sit where you want or where there is space. In the churches seating is largely on pews.
Three nights in the hotel of your choice Three dinners and breakfasts Travel between events by private coach Tips for hotel staff, waiters, drivers
Repeats. One venue can accommodate only half the audience so this concert is repeated.
Souvenir programme (c. 150 pages)
The Speaker
Please see pages 10–11 for accommodation and prices.
Left: Cirencester, watercolour by G.F. Nicholls, publ. 1908. This brochure was compiled and designed in house. The text was written and edited chiefly by Martin Randall and Amelia Blackie with assistance from Sarah Pullen. It was sent to print on the 25th April 2017.
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Tickets to all six concerts
Duration. Two concerts are about an hour long with no interval, four are full-length concerts with an interval.
Professor John Bryan is Professor of Music at the University of Huddersfield, a renowned authority on a range of musical matters and artistic adviser to York Early Music Festival. He is also a practising musician, being a member of the Rose Consort of Viols and Musica Antiqua of London and conductor for the York Chamber Orchestra and York Opera. In 2017 he published Early English Viols: Instruments, Makers and Music (Routledge).
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The festival package includes
Talks by a music historian Festival staff to ensure smooth running of the event
Pre- and post-festival Walking in the Cotswolds, 14–21 May 2018. Full details will be available in September 2017. Walking Hadrian’s Wall, 14–20 May 2018. Please contact us for full details or visit www.martinrandall.com. London Day: Arts & Crafts, Friday 25th May 2018. Please contact us for full details or visit www.martinrandall.com. See page 12 for more information.
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Practicalities Travelling to and from the festival Day 1, Monday 21st May The first event. Coaches leave the hotels shortly after 4.00pm for the first concert at Fairford Church (The Tallis Scholars, Protestant polyphony). Bedrooms at the hotels should be ready for occupation from 2.00 or 2.30pm. Travelling by car. There is parking at all hotels, free of charge – see the hotel descriptions on pages 10–11. By rail to Kemble. Coaches meet the direct 11.36–12.51 London Paddington to Kemble train (April 2017 timetable). We recommend that you book train tickets as soon as possible after they are put on sale about three months before the festival. Taxis from stations at Swindon, Oxford or Cheltenham will take 35 to 50 minutes, depending on the hotel chosen (not included in the package price). Pre-festival tours. See page 12. Participants on Walking in the Cotswolds reach their hotels by 3.45pm. Those who have booked on Walking Hadrian’s Wall (14–20 May 2018) make their own way to the festival (though we are happy to advise on train times and to provide a quote for accommodation on the 20th May).
Day 4, Thursday 24th May Return to the hotel. After the last concert, the Gabrieli in Cirencester, coaches return to the hotels by 4.30pm. By rail from Swindon. Coaches also travel from Cirencester to Swindon railway station, arriving by 4.30pm. There is a direct Swindon–London train 16.43–17.39 (timetable April 2017). (Currently – April 2017 – the direct Kemble-Paddington trains are not at convenient times. Kemble, however, is an easy 7-mile taxi journey from Cirencester.) Post-festival London Day. See page 12. Participants joining the Arts & Crafts London Day can join one of the coach transfers above to make their own onwards journey to London.
Fitness Some walking is unavoidable on this festival, between coach and venues and to get around towns and villages visited. Four out of the five hotels do not have a lift; The Swan in Bibury is the exception. Participants need to be sure-footed and able to manage everyday walking and stairclimbing without difficulty. We ask that participants assess their fitness by trying the exercises described on page 15.
‘Everything is so well planned and one feels so ‘looked after’. Music, hotel, food all most enjoyable as always on a MRT holiday.’ – Participant on an MRT music festival in 2016 ‘The attention to detail, the intelligent and creative programme, the kindness of the staff, and the unstinting standard of everything made me feel extraordinarily privileged to be a participant.’ – Participant on an MRT music festival in 2016.
Right: stone pulpit in Northleach, Church of St Peter and St Paul (detail), drawn and etched by Samuel Lysons, publ. 1803.
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Accommodation & Prices We have reserved rooms in five hotels in Lower Slaughter, Burford and Bibury. For location, amenities, comfort, service and price, we believe these are the best in the area. Prices given on these pages are per person. Rooms vary. As is inevitable in historic buildings, rooms vary in size and outlook. Quiet? Traffic noise may affect some rooms, but generally the hotels are in quiet areas with little traffic in the evenings, especially in Lower Slaughter.
Below: Burford, watercolour by G.F. Nicholls, publ. 1920.
The Lamb, Burford
The Swan, Bibury
Bedrooms are spread through several cottages and a main building which was originally a 15th-century weaver’s house – a charming warren of corridors and steps with low ceilings and exposed timber beams, comfortable and cosy. Bedrooms are individually decorated and with antique furnishings and modern touches. Some rooms have a bath with shower fitment, others have both a bath and a shower.
Located in a famously pretty village, The Swan is a 17th-century former coaching inn on the banks of the River Coln. Bedrooms are individually and tastefully decorated with traditional furnishings brought up to date with modern touches. Bathrooms vary in size; some have a bath with shower fitment while others have a bath and a shower.
There are two lounges, as well as a terrace and garden, a good restaurant (three AA rosettes), and a bar which is popular with locals. www.cotswold-inns-hotels.co.uk/the-lamb-inn Prices, per person Two sharing Very Good double or twin room: £1,720 Single occupancy Good double for sole use: £1,720 Very Good double for sole use: £1,880
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There is a fairly small but airy ‘writing room’ at the front, a cosy bar and a garden with seating. Food in the contemporary brasserie is good. This is the only hotel with a lift. www.cotswold-inns-hotels.co.uk/the-swan-hotel Prices, per person Two sharing Very Good double or twin room: £1,790 Single occupancy Good double for sole use: £1,790 Very Good double for sole use: £1,960
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The Country Inn, Lower Slaughter
The Bay Tree, Burford
The Manor House, Lower Slaughter
A couple of minutes from The Manor, this is a more informal and less glitzy hotel. Externally traditional, the modernised interiors still retain the charm of a country inn. Bedrooms are spacious, simply decorated and well equipped. Most bathrooms have a bath with shower fitment; higher categories have both a bath and shower, and a few have a bath in the bedroom.
Bedrooms are spread between the main house, garden rooms, and cottages. All are individually decorated in a charming, traditional style but with a few contemporary twists. Due to the nature of the building, there are lots of stairs and some floors are uneven. Some bathrooms have a bath with shower fitment while others have both a bath and a shower.
For dining, there is a traditional bar area with beamed ceilings or a bright and contemporary restaurant (same menu, two AA rosettes). The Inn sits within four acres of informal seasonal gardens.
The restaurant is bright and contemporary with a flagstone floor and there are two cosy lounges as well as a pretty garden.
Built in the 17th century as a private mansion, this very comfortable 4-star hotel stands in its own grounds in the centre of the village. Bedrooms vary but are a good size, stylishly furnished and well equipped. Bathrooms are generous in size and well lit; some have a glass door to the bedroom. Most have a bath with shower fitment, while higher categories have both a bath and a shower.
www.theslaughtersinn.co.uk Prices, per person Two sharing Superior double or twin room: £1,850 Junior Suite (double or twin): £1,960 Cottage Suite (double): £2,040 Single occupancy – double rooms Classic: £1,960 • Deluxe: £2,040 • Superior: £2,220
www.cotswold-inns-hotels.co.uk/the-bay-tree-hotel Prices, per person Two sharing Very Good double or twin room: £1,880 Excellent double or twin room: £1,930 Suite (super-king): £2,140 Single occupancy Good double for sole use: £1,880 Good Garden double room for sole use: £2,040
The recently renovated downstairs has three elegant lounges and other amenities. The renowned contemporary restaurant has been rewarded three AA rosettes. The Manor is surrounded by five acres of landscaped gardens, set in the picturesque village of Lower Slaughter which borders the River Eye. www.slaughtersmanor.co.uk Prices, per person Two sharing – king-size beds Junior suite: £2,040 • Suite: £2,140 • Garden Suite: £2,310 Single occupancy Classic double for sole use: £2,040 Deluxe double for sole use: £2,220 book online at www.martinrandall.com
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Walking in the Cotswolds
Pre-festival tour 14–21 May 2018 Lecturer: Dr Steven Blake Details available in September 2017 Please contact us to register your interest Six walks through some of the loveliest countryside in the world with stops to enjoy buildings and landscape features. A carefully selected itinerary which favours the lesser-visited and less accessible places over some of the more touristy ones. Several outstanding gardens are a feature, as are manor houses and a handful of the finest parish churches in the country. Stay in Broadway, in a former 15th-century retreat for the Abbots of Pershore. 12
The Cotswolds famously encompasses some of the loveliest countryside in England. Loveliness belongs not only to the countryside but also to the buildings that go with it – viscerally pretty villages, farmsteads, manor houses and market towns. An essential ingredient of the winning formula is the building stone, seemingly 80% honey and 20% lichen, extruded from the hills on which they stand and sculpted by generations of masons who honed their craft with instinctive good taste. The vernacular is timeless and utterly beguiling, though it incorporates some of the grandest and proudest town houses in England. Some could almost have been designed by Andrea Palladio himself – and some practically were, the designs transmitted to Gloucestershire artisans through the innumerable copycat pattern
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Walking Hadrian’s Wall books which buoyed up English provincial building for a couple of centuries. Parish churches are a particular glory of the Cotswolds. Mostly mediaeval, they range from the diminutive, artless and additive – often blessedly under-restored and unmodernised – to the great churches in the larger villages and towns with soaring arcades, acres of glass, elaborately sculptured tombs and towers and spires to rival any in the country. Where did the money come from? Wool. Prized as the best in Europe by the Merchant of Prato in the fourteenth century, wool and cloth manufacturing was the basis for solid prosperity from the Middle Ages to the Industrial Revolution – when the water power of the hills and valleys pushed the region to the forefront before the advent of steam power knocked it back again. Thus the Cotswolds slumbered, ripe for discovery as a rural idyll by the bicyclemounted aesthetes and romantics of the late Victorian era.
Arts & Crafts Post-festival London Day Friday 25th May 2018 (le 877) Lecturer: Dr Paul Atterbury • Price: £240 Please contact us for full details or visit www.martinrandall.com Above left: Cotswolds sheep pasture, watercolour by G.F. Nicholls, publ. 1920. Above right: Hadrian’s Wall near Housesteads, wood engraving c. 1880.
14–20 May 2018 (me 865) 7 days • £1,980 Lecturer: Graeme Stobbs Please contact us for full details or visit www.martinrandall.com The dates of this tour coincide with the beginning of Music in the Cotswolds. The archaeology and history of the largest Roman construction in northern Europe. The most spectacular stretches accessible only on foot – this is also a walking tour through some of the most magnificent scenery in England. Excursions from coast to coast include all the major Roman sites and relevant museums. The lecturer is Graeme Stobbs, curator for the Hadrian’s Wall Museums. The price for this tour (£1,980 per person for two sharing, or £2,120 for single occupancy) does not include accommodation between the tour and festival, but we are happy to provide a quote and to advise on train timetables.
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Music in the Cotswolds 21–24 May 2018
Booking details Making a booking
Booking Conditions
1. Booking option
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We recommend that you contact us first to ascertain that your preferred hotel option 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. You can also make a booking option online.
You need to sign your assent to these booking conditions on the booking form.
2. Definite booking Fill in the Booking Form and send it to us with the deposit(s) or make a definite booking online, at www.martinrandall.com. It is important that you read the Booking Conditions at this stage, and that you sign the Booking Form if booking offline. Full payment is required if you are booking within ten weeks of the festival (i.e. 12th March 2018 or later).
3. Our confirmation Upon receipt of your Booking Form and deposit we send you confirmation of your booking. Further details about the festival may also be sent at this stage, or will follow shortly afterwards. After this your deposit is nonreturnable except in the special circumstances mentioned in the Booking Conditions.
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.
Insurance. It is a requirement of booking that overseas residents have adequate holiday insurance. Cover for medical treatment, repatriation, loss of property and cancellation charges must be included. We strongly recommend that UK residents have holiday insurance in place that covers them in the event that they have to cancel and for the loss or theft of belongings. Experience tells us that free travel insurance offered by some credit card companies is not reliable in the event of a claim. Passports and visas. Overseas residents must have passports, valid for at least six months beyond the date of the festival. Visas are not required for travel in the UK for EU citizens, or citizens of the USA, Canada, Australia or New Zealand. Nationals of other countries should ascertain whether visas are required in their case.
Specific terms
If you cancel. If you have to cancel your participation in the festival 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:
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.
from 56 to 29 days: from 28 to 15 days: from 14 to 3 days: within 48 hours:
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 festival by slowing them down – see ‘Fitness’ on page 9. To this end we ask you to take the fitness tests described on this page. By signing the booking form you are stating that you have met these requirements. If during the festival it transpires you are not able to cope adequately, you may be asked to opt out of certain visits, or be invited to leave altogether.
We take as the day of cancellation that on which we receive your written confirmation of cancellation.
What we ask of you That you read the information we send to you.
Seat belts. These will be provided on coaches and should be worn.
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If you cancel your booking in a double or twin room but are travelling with a companion who chooses not to cancel, the companion will be liable to pay the single occupancy price.
If we cancel the festival. We might decide to cancel the festival if at any time up to eight weeks before departure 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, 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 exactly as advertised. We would try to devise a satisfactory alternative, but if the change represents a significant loss to the festival 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: ABTA. 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. 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.
Fitness tests 1. Chair stands. Sit in a dining chair, with arms folded and hands on opposite shoulders. Stand up and sit down at least eight 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 two minutes. 3. Agility test. Place an object three 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 seven seconds.
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MRT music festivals in 2018 Music in the Cotswolds 21–24 May 2018 A Festival of Music in Prague 13–19 June 2018 The Rhine Valley Music Festival 20–27 June 2018 A Festival of Music in Franconia 25 August–1 September 2018 The Divine Office: Choral Music in Oxford 24–28 September 2018 A Festival of Music in Bologna October 2018 Please contact us to register your interest
Above: Cirencester, church of St John the Baptish, 1920s etching.
Martin Randall Travel Ltd Voysey House Barley Mow Passage London W4 4GF United Kingdom
Martin Randall Australasia PO Box 1024 Indooroopilly QLD 4068 Australia
Tel +44 (0)20 8742 3355 Fax +44 (0)20 8742 7766 info@martinrandall.co.uk www.martinrandall.com
Tel 1300 55 95 95 New Zealand 0800 877 622 Fax +61 (0)7 3371 8288 anz@martinrandall.com.au
Canada Tel (647) 382 1644 Fax (416) 925 2670 canada@martinrandall.ca USA Tel 1 800 988 6168
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