The Danube – Celebrating Beethoven, 24–31 August 2020

CELEBRATING MUSIC AND PLACE 24–31 AUGUST 2020

A musical voyage along Europe’s longest and loveliest river

MARTIN RANDALL FESTIVALS

Martin Randall Festivals bring together world-class musicians for a sequence of private concerts in Europe’s glorious historic buildings, many of which are not normally accessible. We take care of all logistics, from flights and hotels to pre-concert talks.

MUSIC ALONG THE DANUBE 31 AUGUST–7 SEPTEMBER 2019 SACRED MUSIC IN SANTIAGO 28 SEPTEMBER–2 OCTOBER 2019 THE THOMAS TALLIS TRAIL 1–3 NOVEMBER 2019 OPERA IN SOUTHERN SICILY 5–11 NOVEMBER 2019 MUSIC ALONG THE RHINE 30 JUNE–7 JULY 2020 MUSIC IN THE LOIRE VALLEY 7–13 JULY 2020 THE DANUBE: CELEBRATING BEETHOVEN 24–31 AUGUST 2020 THE DIVINE OFFICE 28 SEPTEMBER–2 OCTOBER 2020 MUSIC IN VENICE 2–7 NOVEMBER 2020

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CONTENTS

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AN INTRODUCTION TO THE FESTIVAL

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DISCOVER THE PLACE

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TRAVEL OPTIONS A range of ways to travel to and from the festival.

From the Danube Valley to the Imperial splendour of Vienna.

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THE FESTIVAL PROGRAMME The day-by-day itinerary including details of concerts.

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ACCOMMODATION & PRICES

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PRE-FESTIVAL TOUR Extend your stay in central Europe with our prefestival tour, Franconia.

Information about the ship.

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MEET THE MUSICIANS

International musicians of the highest calibre.

Front cover: 'Beethoven out for a Walk', oil print, c.1890, after painting by Berthold Genzmer (1858– 1927). ©akg-images

BOOKING

The booking form, details of our booking process, and terms and conditions.

Photograph opposite: Melk Monastery, taken on the Danube Festival ©Bill Knight.

Printed: 5 July 2019.

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INTRODUCTION

THE DANUBE: CELEBRATING BEETHOVEN AN INTRODUCTION

'There are and will be a thousand princes; there is only one Beethoven.'

(Ludwig van Beethoven)

The greatest composer of all time.

This 26th iteration of our Danube festival focuses on Beethoven in the 250th anniversary year of his birth. An eightday celebration of arguably the greatest composer of all time, it includes nine concerts which showcase both the depth and breadth of his musical genius, from his larger masterpieces, such as Symphonies 1 and 7 and glorious Mass in C, to his more intimate piano works and string quartets. A smattering of Schubert provides variation.

Musicians of the highest calibre from Austria, the Czech Republic and Britain.

As with all Martin Randall Festivals, the musicians are among the finest in their fields. They include Imogen Cooper, Roderick Williams obe, the Pavel Haas Quartet and the Nash Ensemble.

Outstanding local artists also perform, such as the Wiener Kammerchor, Bach Consort Wien and the Haydn Philharmonic. Musicians love playing for this festival. Not only are the venues an inspiring change from conventional concert halls, but the audiences are among the best in the world – attentive, knowledgeable and appreciative.

Illustration opposite: Beethoven, after a painting by Julius Schmid.

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A singularly beguiling combination of music and place. Concerts take place in historic buildings which are some of the most beautiful in the Danube valley – palaces, churches, monasteries and country houses. But the value of the juxtaposition goes deeper. The buildings are often of the same period as the music performed in them, and in some cases there are specific and potent historical associations between the two, such as the Bergkirche in Eisenstadt where Beethoven’s Mass in C was first performed. The performances are private, being exclusive to the participants who take the festival package (see details opposite). The small size of the audience and venues leads to an intimacy that engenders a rare intensity of musical communication.

Musical insight from a leading expert.

Daily talks by music critic, writer and broadcaster Richard Wigmore enlighten, stimulate, and inform.

INTRODUCTION

TRAVELLING IN COMFORT

THE FESTIVAL PACKAGE

THE SPEAKER

To this exceptional artistic and intellectual experience is added a further pleasure: the comfort and convenience of a first-class river cruiser, chartered exclusively for the festival audience (160 maximum).

Access to the concerts is exclusive to those who take the festival package, the price for which includes:

Acting as both hotel and principal means of transport, the MS Nickovision sails from Passau to Linz, enabling passengers to attend all the concerts and enjoy the art and architecture in the region without having to change hotel or drive long distances. The itinerary takes you through some of the most picturesque stretches of the Danube.

— Daily lectures on the music.

Richard Wigmore is a music writer, lecturer and broadcaster for BBC Radio 3. He writes for BBC Music and Gramophone and has taught classes in Lieder history and interpretation at Guildhall, Trinity Laban and Birkbeck College. His publications include Schubert: The Complete Song Texts and Pocket Guide to Haydn. He has provided much of the artistic direction for this festival and gives daily talks on the music.

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, no intrusive announcements – and absolutely no piped music.

— Nine private concerts.

—A ccommodation on a first-class river cruiser for seven nights.

—R eturn flights between the UK and Munich. Reduced price if you choose to opt out of these. See page 18.

—A ll meals, from dinner on the first day to breakfast on the last, with wine, and interval drinks.

—C oach travel for airport transfers and to the concert venues, when not reached on foot.

—A ll tips, taxes and admission charges.

—A detailed programme booklet.

—T he assistance of an experienced team of German-speaking festival staff.

Optional pre-festival tour: — F ranconia – see page 19.

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THE PROGRAMME

THE FESTIVAL PROGRAMME

Day 1

Day 2

Day 3

Monday 24 August Passau

Tuesday 25 August Grein, Dürnstein

Wednesday 26 August Vienna

Moor at Grein, an attractive little town squeezed between the Danube and the hills with a 16th-century Schloss rising to one side. The series of daily lectures begins.

It is a short walk from the ship to the main square where the town hall houses a tiny theatre. Constructed in 1791, it is the oldest working theatre in Austria. Seating fewer than 150, the audience splits and the hour-long concert is performed twice.

Concert, 10.30am & 12.00 noon: Grein, Stadttheater String Quartets Pavel Haas Quartet

Fly from London or Manchester to Munich and transfer by coach to Passau, or make your way there independently. For travel options, see page 18.

The ship is ready for boarding from 4.00pm. Afternoon tea is available upon arrival.

The Pavel Haas Quartet performs two great contrasting Beethoven String Quartets: No.11, Op.95 Serioso and No. 9 Op.59, No.3, Razumovsky.

Return to the ship for lunch and sail downstream through the Wachau, a beautiful stretch of the Danube. Moor at Dürnstein, where a gorgeous Baroque abbey, perched on the waterfront, is the venue for the evening concert.

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 historic buildings. It was an important episcopal seat in Central Europe and served as a refuge for the Habsburg court in times of danger.

Recital, 6.30pm: Dürnstein Abbey, Prälatensaal Solo piano

In the early evening, once sailing, there is a reception followed by dinner.

Return to the ship for dinner and sail overnight to Vienna.

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Andreas Staier fortepiano A fascinating programme of late Beethoven Bagatelles and Sonatas.

Moor at Handelskai, a short coach transfer 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 magnificent and imperious and the charming and unpretentious. It remains one of the world’s greatest centres of art and music.

There is time to explore the city and an art gallery or two – the Kunsthistorisches Museum should not be missed – before the late-afternoon concert.

THE PROGRAMME

Day 4 Thursday 27 August Eckartsau, Bratislava

Concert, 4.00pm: Vienna, Palais Ferstel Symphonies Haydn Philharmonic Enrico Onofri conductor The concert takes place at the Palais Ferstel, an opulent neo-medieval building of the 1860s. It formerly accommodated the stock exchange and a bank and still houses offices, shops and the famous Café Central.

With his exuberant First Symphony Beethoven announced himself as the successor of Haydn and Mozart, while the Seventh, dubbed by Wagner 'the apotheosis of the dance', was on of the greatest triumphs of his career.

After the concert join the ship at Handelskai for dinner. Sail downstream overnight to Bratislava.

The ship is moored in Bratislava.

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

Recital, 11.30am: Eckartsau, Schloss Eckartsau Lieder Roderick Williams obe baritone Susie Allan piano Linked by their themes of distant or lost love, Beethoven’s revolutionary song cycle An die ferne Geliebte, Op.98 and Schubert’s sublime last songs Schwanengesang D957 (‘Swan song’, sung in English) are performed here by one of Britain’s leading song duos.

Return to the ship after the concert for lunch. Some free time in Bratislava.

Now capital of Slovakia, Bratislava was for 70 years the second city of Czechoslovakia and for 300 years before that the capital (as Pressburg) 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 well restored façades. There are several museums and historic buildings to visit before an earlyevening concert.

Illustrations: Far Left; Dürnstein, German etching 1935.

Left; Vienna, Palais Ferstel, wood engraving 1890.

Photograph ©Ben Ealovega (taken on a Martin Randall Festival in 2019).

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Concert, 5.00pm: Bratislava, Primatial Palace Piano Trios Guarneri Trio Prague The concert takes place in the Mirror Hall of 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 Bratislava after the castle.

The Guarneri Trio performs Beethoven’s Piano Trio in D Major, Op.70 No.1 Ghost and Schubert’s Piano Trio No.2 in E flat, Op.100, both with a particularly haunting slow movement.

Return to the ship for dinner and sail upstream to Vienna overnight.

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THE PROGRAMME

THE FESTIVAL PROGRAMME

Day 5

Day 6

Friday 28 August Vienna, Eisenstadt

Saturday 29 August Melk

Return to the ship for lunch before driving 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, where many of Haydn’s works were first performed.

Up the hill stands the 18th century Bergkirche, a presbytery of a much larger building that was planned but never built.

Moor at Handelskai, where we return to Vienna for a morning concert at the Palais Auersperg, built between 1706 and 1710.

After hosting the resistance movement during the Second World War, the palace became the seat of the first postwar Austrian government.

Recital, 11.00am: Vienna, Palais Auersperg Solo piano Imogen Cooper piano

A successor to Haydn’s late masses, Beethoven’s glorious Mass in C is performed here, where it was premiered in 1807. The church interior is a rococo trompe l’oeil fantasy in pinks and greys.

Concert, 4.30pm: Eisenstadt, Bergkirche Mass in C Wiener Kammerchor Bach Consort Vienna Soloists tbc Sail overnight to Melk, mooring after lunch tomorrow.

Famed for her performances of the Viennese classics, Imogen Cooper brings her insights to Beethoven’s late, monumental set of Diabelli variations Op.120, the 19th century’s answer to Bach’s ‘Goldbergs’.

Concert, 4.45pm: Melk Abbey, Kolomanisaal Beethoven Septet & Schubert Octet Nash Ensemble This is a rare chance to hear in the same programme Beethoven’s ebullient Septet in E-flat, Op.20 – his greatest popular hit in his lifetime – and the ‘twin’ it inspired, Schubert’s irresistbly tuneful Octet in F, D. 803.

Illustrations: Left: Eisenstadt, steel engraving c. 1850.

Right: Linz, main square and Old Cathedral, aquatint c. 1930.

Photographs ©Ben Ealovega (taken on a Martin Randall Festival in 2019).

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Shortly after lunch Melk Abbey appears ahead, dramatically rising on a rock outcrop beside the Danube. Disembark here for a visit to the abbey, a brilliant creation of the Age of Baroque, a sequence comprising ceremonial courtyards, guest apartments, hall and library culminating in a church of unsurpassed decorative richness.

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Return to the ship for dinner. Sail overnight to Linz, mooring after lunch tomorrow.

THE PROGRAMME

Day 7

Day 8

Sunday 30 August Linz

Monday 31 August Passau, Munich

Arrive in Linz, the historic capital of Upper Austria, towards the end of the morning. A picturesque maze of streets, alleys and historic buildings is grouped around the huge market square, only yards from the mooring.

Concert, 3.30pm: Linz, Palais Kaufmännischer Verein String Quartets Elias String Quartet Our closing concert includes three contrasting quartet masterpieces, early, middle and late, culminating in the last music Beethoven completed: Op.18 No.4 in C minor, Op.74 No.10 in E flat; and Op.130 No.13 in B flat.

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

The ship moors at Passau and coaches leave for Munich city centre and the airport between 8.30 and 9.30am. See page 18 for the options available for return travel to London. Selecting Option 2 allows for an afternoon of independent sightseeing in Munich.

' It was a privilege to experience such music performed by musicians of the highest calibre in such marvellous surroundings.'

Participant on The Danube Music Festival in 2012.

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THE MUSICIANS

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THE MUSICIANS

MEET THE MUSICIANS

PAVEL HAAS QUARTET

ANDREAS STAIER

HAYDN PHILHARMONIC

The Pavel Haas Quartet was founded in 2002 by the violinist Veronika Jarůšková and the violist Pavel Nikl. Following their victory in the Prague Spring Festival Competition and Premio Paolo Borciani in Reggio Emilia in 2005, they soon established themselves as one of the world’s most exciting contemporary chamber ensembles.

Andreas Staier first became world famous as a harpsichordist. After studying with Lajos Rovatkay and Ton Koopman, he worked for three years with the Musica Antiqua Köln.

The Haydn Philharmonic – orchestra in residence at Esterházy Palace – was founded by Adam Fischer in 1987 as Austro-Hungarian Haydn Philharmonic with the intention of bringing together the best musicians from both countries to perform the works of Joseph Haydn in an effort to overcome the border created by the Iron Curtain.

Performing at renowned concert venues around the globe, the PHQ have to date recorded six critically acclaimed CDs, which have received numerous prestigious awards.

Highlights of the 2018/19 season include the Edinburgh International and Schubertiade Festivals.

Whether at the harpsichord or the fortepiano, Staier performs at numerous renowned music festivals worldwide with ensembles such as the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra, Concerto Köln and the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin.

Long-time musical partners include the pianists Alexander Melnikov, Christine Schornsheim and Tobias Koch, the violinists Isabelle Faust and Petra Müllejans and the tenor Christoph Prégardien.

The orchestra has made a name for itself outside the Esterházy Palace thanks to numerous tours and performances throughout Europe, the USA, Japan, Korea and China.

Enrico Onofri is guest conductor of the Haydn Philharmonic. He has worked with the Akademie für Alte Musik, Festival Strings Lucerne, Kammerorchesterbasel, Opéra de Lyon and the Vienna Chamber Orchestra. Enrico has been Baroque Violin Professor at the Conservatorio Scarlatti in Palermo since 1999. He gives masterclasses worldwide.

Photographs: Enrico Onofri ©Enzo Alessandra; Andreas Staier ©Josep Molina; Pavel Haas Quartet ©Marco Borggreve; Haydn Philharmonic ©Nancy Horowitz.

Left ©Ben Ealovega (taken on a Martin Randall Festival in 2019).

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Photographs: This page, left to right: Roderick Williams ©Ben Ealovega; Susie Allan ©Simon Denison; Guarneri Trio Prague ©Vincent Dargent; Imogen Cooper ©Sim Canetty-Clarke.

Opposite page, left to right: Wiener Kammerchor ©Michael Farber; Elias String Quartet; Bach Consort Wien ©Julia Wesey; Nash Ensemble ©K. Leighton.

RODERICK WILLIAMS

SUSIE ALLAN

Roderick Williams is one of the most sought after baritones of his generation. He performs a wide repertoire from baroque to contemporary music, in the opera house or on the concert platform worldwide.

Susie Allan, best-known for her work as a perceptive vocal accompanist, performs with international vocal soloists including Emma Bell, Susan Gritton, Rowan Pierce, Jonathan McGovern and Mark Padmore.

He enjoys partnerships with all the major UK opera houses and orchestras, as well as the Berlin Philharmonic, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Russian National Orchestra, Ensemble Orchestral de Paris, Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome, Cincinnati Symphony, Music of the Baroque Chicago, New York Philharmonic and Bach Collegium Japan.

He was awarded an OBE in June 2017.

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Susie’s long-standing musical partnership with Roderick Williams stretches over 20 years. In an exploration of the three Schubert song cycles, a tour of Scwhanengesang, illustrated with poetry readings

by Jenny Agutter, took them both sides of the Atlantic from New York City’s Park Avenue Armory to the Sam Wanamaker Theatre, London.

They record a third disc exploring the songs of Arthur Somervell in summer 2019.

GUARNERI TRIO PRAGUE Formed in 1986, the Guarneri Trio Prague is a leading classical piano trio in Europe. All members of the trio were born in Prague and studied at the Prague Academy of Music.

IMOGEN COOPER Regarded as a fine interpreter of Classical and Romantic repertoire, Imogen Cooper is internationally renowned for her virtuosity and lyricism.

Imogen has a widespread international career and has appeared with the New York The trio performs regularly Philharmonic, Philadelphia, at international festivals Vienna Philharmonic, Royal including Schleswig-Holstein, Prague Spring and Folle Journée Concertgebouw, Leipzig Gewandhaus, Budapest in Nantes. The trio has toured Festival, NHK and London successfully throughout Symphony Orchestras.

Europe, Canada, Australia, North and South America, Recent and future concerto Japan and China. performances include the Berliner Philharmoniker The ensemble has recorded with Sir Simon Rattle, Sydney the complete piano trios of Symphony with Simone Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Young, the BBC Scottish Shostakovich, Schubert, Symphony Orchestra with Brahms and Mozart for the Paris-based label Praga Digitals. Thomas Dausgaard and the Aurora Orchestra with Nicholas Collon.

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THE MUSICIANS

WIENER KAMMERCHOR BACH CONSORT WIEN

NASH ENSEMBLE

ELIAS STRING QUARTET

The Wiener Kammerchor (Vienna Chamber Choir) performs throughout Austria and abroad and has made many recordings.

The Nash Ensemble, Resident Chamber Ensemble at Wigmore Hall since 2010, is acclaimed for its adventurous programming and virtuoso performances. It presents works from Haydn to the avant-garde, and is a major contributor towards the recognition and promotion of contemporary composers.

The Elias Quartet take their name from Mendelssohn’s oratorio, Elijah. They formed at the Royal Northern College of Music where they became Junior Fellows and Associate Quartet. They spent a year studying at the Hochschule in Cologne with the Alban Berg String Quartet.

Since its founding in 1947, the Choir has developed into a trend-setting international ensemble for the modern interpretation of choral music.

It occupies a place on the Austrian cultural scene and at a range of important European festivals that would otherwise be difficult to fill.

Its conductor, Michael Grohotolsky, teaches at Vienna’s University of Music and Performing Arts and is also a freelance voice coach and lecturer.

Bach Consort Wien, cofounded by Rubén Dubrovsky in 1999 in Vienna, counts among Austria’s most important Baroque ensembles.

In addition to numerous performances in the Vienna Musikverein, it is regularly present on concert stages throughout Europe. The ensemble found its specific musical language in the intensive study and analysis of J.S. Bach’s work.

Soloists have included Verónica Cangemi, Florian Boesch, Bernarda Fink, Carlos Mena, Emma Kirkby, Terry Wey, Deborah York, Antonio Giovannini, Kirsten Blaise, Yetzabel Arias, Yeree Suh, Gianluca Buratto, Daniel Johannsen, Christophe Coin and Erich Höbarth.

Numerous accolades have been won over the years, including The Edinburgh Festival Critics award ‘for general artistic excellence’ and two Royal Philharmonic Society awards.

In the 2019/20 season the Nash places the music of Schubert and his contemporaries at the centre of its annual series.

In 2009 the Elias participated in BBC Radio 3’s New Generation Artists’ scheme and was recipient of a Borletti-Buitoni Trust Award. As a result, the quartet mounted ‘The Beethoven Project’: performing Beethoven’s string quartets as cycles. The project culminated with a cycle at Wigmore Hall, recorded live for the Wigmore live label.

More about the concerts Private. All the performances are planned and administered by us, and the audience consists exclusively of those who have taken the festival package.

Acoustics. This festival is more concerned with locale and authenticity than with acoustic perfection. The venues may have idiosyncrasies or reverberations of the sort not found in modern concert halls.

Seating. Specific seats are not reserved. You sit where you want.

Changes. Musicians fall ill, venues may close for repairs, airlines alter schedules: there are many circumstances which could necessitate changes to the programme. We ask you to be understanding should the unforeseen occur.

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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.

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THE PLACE

DISCOVER THE PLACE ' Outstanding. It was a quality tour, in a beautiful part of the world, with world class concerts.'

Participant on The Danube Festival of Song in 2016.

To write about the Danube is to embark on the life story of a large part of Europe. And nowhere on Earth can match the region for its contribution to the canon of Classical music over the course of several hundred years.

Unlike every other long river between the Urals and the Bay of Biscay, this majestic stream has never been the possession of any single state or even of any single empire – whether Frank or Slav, Magyar, Teuton or Turk. Through all geo-political obsessions, the Danube has moved with serene impartiality.

A wonderful diversity of scene complements the ethnic, linguistic and national variety. The stretch of river between Passau and Bratislava is one of the loveliest lengths of riparian scenery anywhere in the world. Its monuments are many and remarkable.

Illustration: DĂźrnstein, early 20th-century etching by Luigi Kasimir.

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This is simply the biggest river of Europe.

From its origins in south-western Germany, the Danube flows to the Black Sea over a course of about 1,750 miles, gathering force from waters which drain 300,000 square miles, passing through 10 countries. More than 300 often furious tributaries pour their national waters into the Danube, but the river placidly swallows them all.

To travel with the Danube is a European experience. There may be no better way of growing into the knowledge of why Europe, even this middle Europe of so many conflicts in the past, has been more than the sum of its parts; and of why these parts, however little they may have seemed to belong to each other (much less love each other), have remained members of one body and segments of one civilisation.

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ACCOMMODATION & PRICES

ACCOMMODATION & PRICES THE SHIP

PRICES

Launched in 2018, the MS Nickovision is a new ship in the Nicko fleet, and one of the more modern river cruisers in Europe.

Main deck (lowest) Two sharing: £3,110 per person Single occupancy: £3,580

Public areas: lounge, bar and three restaurants, the largest of which can accommodate the majority of passengers in one sitting.

Middle deck Two sharing: £3,710 per person Single occupancy: £4,270

There is a smaller restaurant (seating 30 passengers), where an á la carte menu is served. This can be booked on the day and passengers choose to eat at a time that suits them (schedule permitting). The cost of dinner is included regardless of where one decides to eat on board. The third restaurant (seating 60 passengers) is available for an early bird breakfast only.

Upper deck Two sharing: £4,180 per person Single occupancy: £4,810

Cabins on the top decks (Middle and Upper) are the most desirable, with floor-to-ceiling windows that slide open.

Cabins on the lowest deck have smaller windows that don’t open.

In layout and furnishings the cabins are identical, significant differences being the size of windows and height above water level (higher cabins enjoy better views and fewer stairs). The floor area of 14m 2 (all cabins) is smaller than some comparable cruisers.

Daily lectures take place in the lounge.

Please note that sightlines can be poor and as a result the lecturer is not always visible.

All cabins have windows, adjustable airconditioning, telephone, TV and safe.

Bathrooms have showers only.

There are no single cabins as such but we are allocating a number of twin-bed cabins for single occupancy. www.nicko-cruises.de

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No flights: subtract £170 per person from the prices shown.

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TRAVEL OPTIONS

TRAVEL OPTIONS JOINING & LEAVING THE FESTIVAL We are offering a choice of three scheduled Lufthansa flights to Munich, from London or Manchester.

Or you can choose to make your own arrangements for travel to and from the festival, for which there is a price reduction.

Please note that each outbound flight is tied to a particular inbound flight. You cannot mix flights from different options.

PRE-FESTIVAL TOUR This has its own outbound flight arrangement. See page 20 for details.

All pre-festival tour participants then return to the UK on festival flight option 1.

THE NO-FLIGHTS OPTION 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.

Price reduction for ‘no flights’: £170.

FESTIVAL FLIGHT OPTIONS Option 1: Heathrow, lunch at Landshut

Option 2: Heathrow, free time in Munich

Option 3: Manchester

Monday 24th August: London Heathrow to Munich (LH 2471) departing at 09.00, arriving at 11.45. Break the drive to Passau with lunch at Landshut, a former capital of Bavaria. There are two hours here; 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.

Monday 24th August: London Heathrow to Munich (LH 2473) departing at 10.55, arriving 13.40. Drive directly from the airport to the ship at Passau, a journey of under two hours.

Monday 24th August: Manchester to Munich (LH 2501) departing 10.45, arriving 13.45.

Drive directly from the airport to the ship at Passau, a journey of under two hours.

Monday 31st August: Munich to London Heathrow (LH 2476) departing at 14.40 and arriving at 15.45.

Monday 31st August: Munich to London Heathrow (LH 2480) departing at 18.35 and arriving at 19.40. Coaches take you first to the centre of Munich, where you have about four hours of free time.

Monday 31st August: Munich to Manchester (LH 2502), departing at 15.55 and arriving at 17.00. Coaches take you first to the centre of Munich, where you have about two hours of free time.

Note that it is not usually possible to arrange connecting f lights between Manchester and other regional UK airports.

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 some of the venues do not. Participants need to be averagely fit, sure-footed and able to manage everyday walking and stairclimbing without difficulty.

If you have a medical condition or a disability which may affect your holiday or necessitate special arrangements being made for you, please discuss these with us before booking – or, if the condition develops or changes subsequently, as soon as possible before departure.

We ask that you take the simple fitness tests on page 22 before booking.

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Illustration: Melk Abbey, lithograph by Alois Hänisch (1866–1937).

PRE-FESTIVAL TOUR

FRANCONIA ART & ARCHITECTURE IN GERMANY’S MEDIEVAL HEARTLAND

Pre-festival tour 17–24 August 2020 (mg 337) 8 days • £2,870 Lecturer: Dr Jarl Kremeier A neglected region of southern Germany which has an exceptional heritage of art and architecture, enchanting streetscape and natural beauty.

Medieval art including Romanesque sculpture (the Bamberg Rider) and late medieval wood carving by Tilman Riemenschneider.

Baroque and Rococo palaces, churches and paintings, including Tiepolo’s masterpiece.

Once the very heart of the medieval German kingdom, Franconia possesses the loveliest towns and villages in Germany, beautiful countryside and a variety of art and architecture of the highest quality.

Yet remarkably few Britons find their way here – or could even point to the region on a map.

Würzburg, with its vine-clad riverbanks and Baroque palaces, is a delight. The tour stays here for two nights. One of the loveliest and least spoilt of German towns, Bamberg has fine streetscape, riverside walks and picturesque upper town around the Romanesque cathedral. Nuremberg, the home of Dürer, was among the great cities of the Middle Ages, and its churches and museums are filled with outstanding sculpture and painting. Bayreuth was a centre of Rococo culture and remains a mecca for Wagnerians.

The end of the Middle Ages was artistically one of the most creative in Franconia, with Tilman Riemenschneider and Veit Stoss, perhaps Germany’s greatest sculptors, evoking the fraught spirituality of the

age in works of remarkable virtuosity.

The Romanesque sculpture in Bamberg’s cathedral is also of the highest importance.

The 18th century also bequeathed much artistic wealth. The Prince-Bishop’s palace in Würzburg and the pilgrimage church of Vierzehnheiligen (both designed by Balthasar Neumann) are consummate achievements of Baroque and Rococo art and architecture. Moreover, the greatest achievement of 18th century Venetian painting is here: Tiepolo’s ceiling fresco in the Würzburg Residenz.

ITINERARY Day 1: Würzburg. Fly at c. 9.30am from London Heathrow to Frankfurt (Lufthansa). Drive to Würzburg, and check in to the hotel. An afternoon walk to the oldest medieval bridge to survive and visit the Marienburg, the formidable fortress dominating the city from across the River Main. Visit the vast museum within, with its sizeable collection of Riemenschneider sculpture. First of two nights in Würzburg.

Day 2: Würzburg. The Residenz (PrinceBishop’s Palace), designed partly by Balthasar Neumann and extended over time, is one of the finest 18th-century palaces in Europe, with magnificent halls, state apartments, exquisite chapel and ceiling frescoes which are the masterpieces of the Venetian painter Tiepolo. In the afternoon walk around the largely postwar reconstruction of the old centre, with its vast and sombre Romanesque cathedral, delicate Gothic church and flamboyant baroque churches.

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Day 3: Creglingen, Rothenburg, Pommersfelden, Bamberg. Drive through gently undulating countryside to the little pilgrimage church near Creglingen; here see The Assumption by Riemenschneider, his finest work. Rothenburg-ob-derTauber is exceedingly picturesque and has scarcely changed in appearance for hundreds of years; the church of St James has Riemenschneider’s Last Supper. Visit Schloss Weissenstein in Pommersfelden, an early 18th-century country house with a grand Baroque staircase. Continue through lovely landscape to Bamberg. First of four nights here.

Day 4: Bamberg. Morning walk taking in the riverside town. Visit the Gothic Church of our Lady with its Tintoretto altarpiece and the splendid Romanesque cathedral with some of Germany’s finest medieval sculpture, including the Bamberg Rider, a potent image of knightly values.

The Diocesan Museum has outstanding medieval textiles. In the afternoon visit the Neue Residenz, palace of the Prince-Bishops.

Day 5: Bayreuth. All-day excursion.

Bayreuth developed as a minor court city in the 18th century, and a varietal of Rococo decoration evolved in the town palace and at the Hermitage, a complex of gardens, palaces and pavilions, under the patronage of the Markgraf. Visit Wagner’s Festspielhaus, built to the composer’s specifications on a hill outside the town.

Illustration: Bamberg Town Hall, wood engraving c. 1880.

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' Very comprehensive and thoroughly researched material. Ideas flowed and the architectural and artistic detail was always related back to the historical context.'

Participant on Franconia in 2018.

Day 6: Coburg, Vierzehnheiligen. At Coburg visit the formidable fortress above the city, now a museum with good paintings and furnishings. Schloss Ehrenburg, in the centre of town was the home of Prince Albert. Across the valley, the pilgrimage church of Vierzehnheiligen

by Balthasar Neumann is perhaps the greatest of all Rococo churches.

Day 7: Nuremberg. An immensely rich trading and manufacturing city in the Middle Ages, Nuremberg is girt by massive walls and possesses much art and architecture of the 15th and 16th centuries. A walk through the old town includes the church of St Sebaldus, which contains outstanding sculpture by Veit Stoss and others, and the Albrecht Dürer House. St Lorenz is the city’s other great church, and is likewise laden with major artworks including Veit Stoss’s Annunciation (1517/18).

Day 8: Nuremberg. Visit the German National Museum, home to the finest collection of German medieval and Renaissance art in the country. Fly from Munich, arriving Heathrow at c. 5.00pm.

For those who are combining the tour with The Danube: Celebrating Beethoven: Continue by coach to the ship (NickoVision), moored in Passau.

Check in and settle in to your cabin before dinner on board.

LECTURER

PRACTICALITIES

Dr Jarl Kremeier.

Art historian specialising in 17th- to 19th-century architecture and decorative arts; teaches Art History at the Berlin College of Acting and the Senior Student’s Department of Berlin’s Freie Universität.

He studied at the Universities of Würzburg, Berlin and the Courtauld, is a contributor to the Macmillan Dictionary of Art, author of a book on the Würzburg Residenz, and of articles on Baroque architecture and architectural theory.

Price, per person. Two sharing: £2,870 or £2,730 without flights. Single occupancy: £3,220 or £3,080 without flights.

Flights are charged as part of your pre-festival booking, so you take the 'no flights' price for the festival (page 16).

Day 15, 31st August. After the festival, fly Illustration: from Munich to London Heathrow, arriving Nuremburg, watercolour by E. Harrison Compton, publ. 1912. at c. 3.45pm (option 1).

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Included: air travel (economy class) on Lufthansa flights (Airbus A319); travel by private coach throughout; accommodation as described below; breakfasts, 1 picnic lunch and 5 dinners with wine; all admissions; tips for waiters, drivers and guides; all taxes; the services of the lecturer and tour manager.

Accommodation. Hotel Rebstock, Würzburg (rebstock.com): welllocated, comfortable 4-star hotel.

Hotel Villa Geyerswörth, Bamberg (villageyerswoerth.de): elegant, quiet 4-star hotel, conveniently located close to the old town. Le Méridien Grand Hotel, Nuremberg (lemeridiennuernberg.com): modern 4-star hotel in a late 19th-century building, a 10-minute walk from the centre.

Single rooms throughout are doubles for sole use.

How strenuous? The tour involves a lot of walking in town centres, where coach access is restricted, and a lot of standing in museums and churches. A good level of fitness is necessary. It should not be attempted by anyone who has difficulty with everyday walking and stair-climbing.

There are several long drives. Average distance by coach per day: 55 miles.

Group size: 10 –22 participants.

BOOKING FORM

THE DANUBE: CELEBRATING BEETHOVEN 24–31 AUGUST 2020 NAME(S) – We do not use titles on documents issued to festival and tour participants unless you want us to by including them here: Participant 1:

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Option 1: London Heathrow; lunch in Passau on day 1

Middle deck

Twin cabin with beds separate

Option 2: London Heathrow; free time in Munich on day 8

Upper deck

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Option 3: Manchester No flights: making your own way to and from the ship.

PRE-FESTIVAL TOUR – please tick to book.

FRANCONIA 17–24 August 2020 (mg 337) Room type – please tick: Double for sole use Double – two sharing Twin – two sharing Flights – please tick: Group flights: out with the pre-festival tour group and returning with the festival No flights: making your own way to the start of the tour, and onwards at the end of the festival

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Please tick one option: BANK TRANSFER. Please use your surname and the festival code (mg 345) as a reference and ask your bank to allow for all charges.

Account name: Martin Randall Travel Ltd. Bank: Handelsbanken, 2 Chiswick High Road, London W4 1TH. Account number: 8663 3438. Sort code: 40-51-62.

Transfers from non-UK bank accounts: please instruct your bank to send payment in pound sterling (GBP). IBAN: GB98 HAND 4051 6286 6334 38. Swift/BIC code: HAND GB22.

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OR Full balance Required if you are booking within 10 weeks of departure.

Carbon offset donation: tick to add £5 per person. We support the India Solar Water Heating project (visit www.martinrandall.com/sustainable-tourism for details).

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1. C hair 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. S tep 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. A gility 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.

An additional indication of the f itness required is that you should be able to walk unaided at a pace of three miles per hour for at least half an hour at a time, and to stand for at least 30 minutes.

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Making a booking 1. Booking option. We recommend that you contact us first to make an optional booking which we will hold for seven days. To confirm it please send the booking form and deposit within this period – the deposit is 10% of your total booking price.

Alternatively, make a definite booking straight away through our website.

2. Definite booking. Fill in the booking form and send it to us with the deposit. It is important that you read the Booking Conditions at this stage, and that you sign the booking form. Full payment is required if you are booking within ten weeks of departure.

3. Our confirmation. Upon receipt of the booking form and deposit we shall send you confirmation of your booking. After this your deposit is nonreturnable except in the special circumstances mentioned in the Booking Conditions. Further details about the festival or tour may also be sent at this stage, or will follow shortly afterwards.

Booking Conditions Please read these. You need to sign your assent to these booking conditions on the booking form.

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

—W e will meet all our legal and regulatory responsibilities, usually going far beyond the minimum obligations.

—W e aim to provide full and accurate information about our holidays. If there are changes, we will tell you promptly.

— I f something does go wrong, we try to put it right.

Our overriding aim is to ensure that every client is satisfied with our services.

What we ask of you. 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. You must be in good health and have a level of fitness that would not impair other participants’ enjoyment by slowing them down or by absorbing disproportionate attention from our staff. Please read ‘Fitness for the festival’ on page 18 and take the self-assessment tests opposite; by signing the booking form you are stating that you have passed these tests.

If during the festival or tour it transpires, in the judgement of our staff, that you are not able to cope, you may be asked to opt out of certain visits or to leave the festival or tour altogether. This would be at your own expense. We reserve the right to refuse to accept a booking without necessarily giving a reason.

Foreign Office advice. Before booking, please refer to the FCO website – www.fco.gov.uk – to ensure you understand the travel advice for Germany, Austria and Slovakia. Non-UK citizens should look at the advice issued by their governments, which may differ significantly.

Insurance. It is a requirement of booking that you have adequate holiday insurance cover. The insurance must cover, at minimum, medical treatment, repatriation,

loss of property and loss of payments to us in the event that you cancel the festival or tour. If you are making your own arrangements for international travel, please ensure you have insurance that protects you in the rare event of Martin Randall Travel cancelling the festival or tour. Experience indicates that free travel insurance offered by some credit card companies is not to be relied upon.

Passports and visas. Your passport must be valid for at least six months beyond the date of the festival or tour. In the event of a ‘no-deal’ Brexit, additional validity may be required. Visas are not currently required for Germany, Austria and Slovakia for UK or other EU citizens, or for citizens of the USA, Canada, Australia or New Zealand. Nationals of other countries should ascertain whether visas are required in their case, and obtain them if they are.

If you cancel. If you have to withdraw from the festival or tour, there would be a charge which varies according to the period of notice you give. Up to 57 days before the festival or tour the deposit would be forfeited. Thereafter a percentage of the total cost of the tour will be due: up to 57 days: between 56 and 29 days: between 28 and 15 days: between 14 days and 3 days: within 48 hours:

deposit only 40% 60% 80% 100%

If you cancel your booking in a double or twin cabin but are travelling with a companion who chooses to continue to participate in the festival, the companion would have to pay the single-occupancy price.

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

If we cancel the festival or tour. We may decide to cancel a festival or tour if there were insufficient bookings for it to be viable (though this would always be more than eight weeks before departure). We would refund you with everything you had paid us.

Safety and security. Cancellation may also occur if civil unrest, war, natural disaster or other circumstances amounting to force majeure arise in the region to which the festival or tour was due to go. If the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office advises against travel, we would either cancel or adjust the itinerary to avoid risky areas. We would also treat sympathetically a wish to withdraw from a festival or tour to a troubled region even if the FCO does not advise against travel there.

Health and safety. We have a safety auditing process in place and, as a minimum, request that all of our suppliers comply with local health and safety regulations. We ask that you take note of the safety information we provide.

The limits of our liabilities. As principal, we accept responsibility for all ingredients of a 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 a 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 in your view an adequate substitute, we would give a full refund.

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Financial protection. Any money you have paid to us for a festival or tour which includes an international flight is protected by our Air Travel Organiser’s Licence (ATOL, number 3622). Payments for holidays which do not include a flight from/to the UK are protected by ABTA – The Travel Association. So, in the (highly unlikely) event of our insolvency in advance of the festival or tour, you would get your money back, or if we failed after it had begun, the festival or tour would be able to continue and you would be returned to the UK at its conclusion. Clients living elsewhere who have arranged their own flights should ensure their personal travel insurance covers repatriation in the event of holiday supplier failure.

Financial protection: the official text. We are required to publish the following. 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 flightinclusive 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. 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.

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 nonprovision 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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