The Danube Music Festival 2012

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The Danube Music Festival In association with Wigmore Hall. Curated by John Gilhooly 17–24 August 2012

The Festival Directors There have been many times when Wigmore Hall audience members have spoken to me enthusiastically about Martin Randall music festivals, which certainly make a lasting impression on those who attend them. Whilst I was no stranger to them, it still came as a surprise – a very agreeable one – when Martin invited me to curate the programmes for the 2012 Danube Music Festival.

Martin Randall and Wigmore Hall have enjoyed a long association already and the idea of such a collaborative venture was, therefore, doubly welcome. Although I’m not familiar with every venue in the festival, I do know the ethos of choosing appropriate artists and music for them and have tried to do so accordingly. I can’t think, for instance, of a finer vocal group to highlight the glories of Melk Abbey than Stile Antico, or a more atmospheric and historic place in which to hear the rich sound of the baryton – Haydn’s own favourite instrument – than Esterháza Palace.

Though these occasions will be particular pleasures for me, I can, of course, warmly commend all the superb artists who so readily agreed to perform for this festival. The wonderful soprano Christiane Karg, who I confidently predict will become an instant hit when she makes her debut at the Hall in 2012, joins a host of musicians; all of them established Wigmore favourites. I am very pleased that the baritone Henk Neven, who made such a wonderful impression with his debut recital last season, could be part of this special festival. Also, Alina Ibragimova will join us for solo Bach, following a number of sold-out Wigmore recitals and a thrilling survey of Beethoven’s Violin Sonatas for our record label Wigmore Hall Live.

Wigmore Hall has for decades been the world’s finest concert hall for chamber music and song, but it has not rested on its laurels.

During the five years of John Gilhooly’s leadership its stock has risen even higher, with a scarcely believable increase in ticket sales of 50%, an ever wider variety of music and a broadening of the audience without any disenchantment among its loyal core.

For an institution already at the top of the tree, and at a time when ‘classical’ music is slipping from its position at the heart of shared national culture, that is a very remarkable achievement.

It is an honour for Martin Randall Travel to be associated with Wigmore through the 2012 Danube Festival of Music, which I have been running since its inception in 1994. As with every music festival, in each edition there have been changes. Always some of the artists are new to the festival, usually there is a venue or two we haven’t used before and the over-arching theme or organising principle is regularly renewed.

So I asked John whether he would like to select the artists for the 2012 festival and transform it into a sort of Wigmore on Water.

Slightly to my surprise he agreed with alacrity. The happy result of our planning and plotting is now in your hands, and a thrilling prospect it is too. Please join us.

Martin Randall.

It has been a real pleasure for me to put these programmes together and I hope you enjoy hearing these special concerts in such beautiful surroundings as much as I will.

John Gilhooly.

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The Danube Music Festival In association with Wigmore Hall. Curated by John Gilhooly.

17–24 August 2012 Matching music & place

This festival combines music and architecture in a singularly beguiling way. The nine private concerts take place in palaces, churches, theatres and other historic buildings which are among the most beautiful along the Danube.

But the value of the juxtaposition goes deeper than visual attraction.

The buildings are generally of the same period as the music performed in them, and in some cases there are specific historical associations between the two. Matching music and place – that is the governing principle of this festival.

Musicians of the highest calibre

Now in its nineteenth year, it is established as a prestigious annual event in the musical calendar, attracting musicians of the highest calibre.

The festival explores the music of the Austro-Hungarian Empire – Haydn, Mozart, Schubert, Bruckner, Dvořák and a number of less familiar composers. There is also music by composers from elsewhere in Europe.

Wigmore abroad

There is a new feature this year, which is that the artists have been selected by John Gilhooly, Director of the Wigmore Hall in London, the world’s leading centre for chamber music and song.

Almost all the musicians are Wigmore Hall favourites, or are due to make their debut in 2012.

John worked closely with Martin Randall and his team to ensure a good fit between artists, music and place.

A rare intensity of musical communication

The concerts are private, being accessible exclusively to the 140 participants who take a package which includes accommodation, all meals, lectures and much else besides.

The size of the audience in combination with the relatively small capacity of the venues leads to an informality and intimacy, which engenders a rare intensity of musical communication.

Musicians love playing for this festival. Not only are the venues an inspiring change from modern concert halls, but the audiences are among the best in the world – attentive, knowledgeable, appreciative.

The spoken word

Talks and lecturers are another important ingredient. Roderick Swanston, music lecturer and broadcaster, and Tim Blanning,

Emeritus Professor of Modern European History at the University of Cambridge, give daily talks on the music and the history of the region. (Their biographies can be found on page 11.)

Travelling in comfort

To this exceptional artistic and intellectual experience is added a further pleasure: the comfort and convenience of a first-class river cruiser which is both hotel and principal means of travel.

The MS Amadeus Elegant is one of the more comfortable cruisers on the waterways of Europe, and we have chartered it exclusively for this festival. This enables you to attend all the concerts and see some of the finest scenery and townscape in the region without having to change hotels or drive long distances.

In many ways, however, this venture is far removed from the usual cruising routine: there is little regimentation, no obligatory seating plan, no on-board entertainment – and no piped music. More time is spent ashore than is conventional but there is also plenty of time to relax on board the ship.

Walking alternative

For up to twenty-two of the audience there is the option of guided walks through some of the most ravishing scenery of the Danube valley. The walking party stays in hotels rather than on the ship, attends six of the nine concerts and is provided with its own lecturer, Richard Wigmore (no relation). See pages 15–16 for details.

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The Programme Contents The Programme.................................................................4–10 More about the concerts..........................................................6 Fitness for the festival..............................................................8 The Speakers..........................................................................11 Britain’s leading provider of cultural tours.............................11 The Ship................................................................................12 The Package, Prices................................................................13 Other festivals in 2012..........................................................13 Pre-festival tour: Salzburg Summer.......................................14 The Walking Party...........................................................15–16 Booking form..................................................................17–18 Booking details......................................................................19 Illustration: Grein, engraving after Jacob Alt c. 1840.

Day 1, Friday 17th August

The ship, MS Amadeus Elegant, is ready for boarding from 4.00pm.

Afternoon tea is available.

Travelling to Passau

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.

Flights from the UK. We are offering a choice of three scheduled Lufthansa flights to Munich, from Manchester or London. It may be possible to arrange connecting flights with bmi (British Midland) from Edinburgh, Glasgow, Aberdeen or Belfast; please enquire.

After sailing at c. 6.30pm there are introductory talks, a reception and dinner.

Please choose one flight option only. If you choose flight Option 1 for the outbound flight from London Heathrow to Munich, you also return to London on the Option 1 flight. If you choose flight Option 2, you return on the Option 2 flight, and so on.

Day 2, Saturday 18th August Grein, Melk, Dürnstein

Option 1: Fly from London Heathrow to Munich at 9.30am.

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. (LH 2471, departing London 9.30am, arriving Munich 12.20pm.)

Moor at Grein, a picturesque little town squeezed between the Danube and the hills with a 16th-century Schloss rising to one side.

It is a short walk from the ship to the main square where the tiny municipal theatre lies hidden within the town hall. Constructed in 1791 – the year the Magic Flute was composed – it is the oldest working theatre in Austria.

Option 2: Fly from London Heathrow to Munich at 11.05am.

Drive directly from Munich Airport to the ship at Passau, a journey of under two hours. (LH 2473, departing London 11.05am, arriving Munich 1.55pm.)

Grein, Stadttheater Michael Collins (clarinet), Heath Quartet Mozart and Brahms Quintets

Option 3: Fly from Manchester to Munich at 11.00am. Drive from Munich Airport to the ship at Passau, a journey of under two hours. (LH 2501, departing Manchester 11.00am, arriving Munich 1.55pm.)

Michael Collins is one of today’s most sought-after soloists.

At sixteen he won the woodwind section of the first ever BBC Young Musician of the Year Award and went on to become one of the world’s leading clarinettists. He is also a noted conductor, recently appointed as Principal Conductor of the City of London Sinfonia. His extensive discography has also won him many awards.

Option 4 (‘No flights’): Making your own arrangements. 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 £160 per person.

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Founded in 2002 at the Royal Northern College of Music, the Heath Quartet was selected for representation by YCAT 4

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‘All that I had come to expect from Martin Randall. A wonderful selection, at times heart-rending, and wonderful artists.’

A.S., Essex, The Danube Festival 2011.

Clockwise from above: The Heath Quartet; Michael Collins; Stile Antico.

(Young Classical Artist Trust) in 2008, and has gone on to win several international awards and to be granted a Borletti-Buitoni Special Ensemble Scholarship. The Quartet has undertaken two complete Beethoven cycles, and their increasingly busy schedule is now taking them to all the major concert halls. They are currently Senior Chamber Music Fellows at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.

composer, Heinrich Isaac, celebrated as second only to the great Josquin des Prez. The music in this programme showcases motets written for Maximillian’s Habsburg court

by Isaac and his contemporaries.

Return to the ship and sail downstream through the Wachau, one of the most beautiful stretches of the Danube. Moor at Dürnstein, perhaps the loveliest little town on the river. The ruins of a castle in which Richard the Lionheart was imprisoned rise on a steep hill behind, while a Baroque church is perched above the waterfront.

Disembark for a late evening concert, again with Stile Antico.

The concert includes Mozart’s Clarinet Quintet in A (K581) and Brahms’ Clarinet Quintet in B minor, Op.115.

Sail downstream after the concert and moor at Melk. Dramatically situated on an outcrop rising above the Danube, Melk Abbey is one of the most brilliant creations of the Age of Baroque. A sequence comprising ceremonial courts, guest apartments, hall and library culminates in a church of unsurpassed decorative richness. The concert here (one hour, no interval) takes place in the Kolomanisaal, a hall – once the summer refectory – not normally accessible to visitors, which has frescoes by Paul Troger (1744).

Dürnstein Abbey, Church Stile Antico Anglican and Recusant Compline The Divine Office is the most spiritually charged musical tradition to have emerged from western civilization, and has in essentials changed little in nearly fifteen hundred years.

The last of the eight Canonical Hours is performed this evening, featuring largely English composers such as Tallis, Byrd and Sheppard. The programme also features the singing of the votive antiphon of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

Melk Abbey, Kolomanisaal Stile Antico Vocal music for Maximillian I, Holy Roman Emperor

Sail overnight from Dürnstein to Vienna-Nussdorf.

Stile Antico is an ensemble of young British singers now established as one of the most exciting and original new voices in its field. Working without a conductor, the members of the group each contribute artistically to the musical result, with stunning effect. They tour throughout the world with Renaissance Tudor, Flemish and Spanish music. Their recent release Song of Songs won the 2009 Gramophone Award for Early Music and reached the top of the US Classical Chart.

Like any self-respecting Renaissance monarch, Maximillian equipped his court with a ‘chapel’ of some of the finest musicians of the day. Foremost among these was the court T H E DA N U BE M U S IC F E S T I VA L

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Day 3, Sunday 19th August Vienna

Principal seat of the Habsburgs for over six hundred years, Vienna became capital of a vast agglomeration of territories that encompassed much of Central and Eastern Europe. A glorious mix of great and small, of the imperiously magnificent and the charmingly unpretentious, the city is one of the world’s greatest centres of art, architecture and music.

Albertina, Hall of the Muses Christiane Karg soprano Burkhard Kehring piano Songs of Night and Dreams This is a privileged opportunity to hear Christiane Karg, a young Bavarian soprano who has already conquered European audiences and is set to make a huge impression when she performs at Wigmore Hall. Her first Lieder recording, also partnered by Burkhard Kehring, won the prestigious Echo Klassik Award, and in 2009 the magazine Opernwelt named her as Young Performer of the Year.

More about the concerts

Private events. These concerts are planned by John Gilhooly and Martin Randall Travel, and administered by the latter. The audience consists exclusively of those who have bought the full festival package.

Burkhard Kehring has performed in most of the world’s major concert halls and music festivals. He has been official accompanist at master classes with such artists as Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Marilyn Horne and Hermann Prey, and works regularly with distinguished singers, including Robert Holl, Júlia Várady, Andreas Schmidt and Dietrich FischerDieskau.

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, some have idiosyncrasies not found in modern concert halls.

The Albertina, which houses one of the world’s greatest collections of prints and drawings, is a town palace with beautiful interiors of the 1820s – contemporary, therefore, with Schubert songs, including Nacht und Träume. This theme continues within songs by Wolf, Brahms and Strauss.

Changes. Musicians fall ill, venues require restoration, rivers flood (or run dry): there are many unforeseeable circumstances which could necessitate changes to the programme. We ask you to be understanding should they occur.

Moor overnight at Vienna-Nussdorf.

Floods and droughts. Climate change is affecting weather patterns. 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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Above left: street in Vienna, early 20th-century etching.

Photos: Christiane Karg; Burkhard Kehring.

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‘This was an exceptionally interesting week. Beautifully organised from start to finish, with a well planned programme, lecturer of the highest distinction, and top class performers giving something out of the ordinary.’

M.H. & E.H., Surrey, The Danube Festival 2011.

Day 4, Monday 20th August Bratislava

Sail during the morning to Bratislava (Pressburg in German, Pozony in Hungarian). Now capital of Slovakia, it was capital of the Habsburg rump of Hungary for three hundred years, both during and after the Turkish occupation. Its historic centre is one of the most attractive along the Danube, a network of unspoilt streets, squares and beautifully restored buildings.

Bratislava, Primatial Palace Vienna Piano Trio Czech Piano Trios Garlanded with awards, the Vienna Piano Trio has been delighting audiences worldwide for over 20 years. The Trio is already a favourite with Martin Randall regulars, having appeared at many MRT Music Festivals as well as Music at the Castle weekends. It is also often heard at Wigmore Hall and holds a Residency there in the 2011–2012 season.

The Trio is unquestionably one of the most widely respected chamber groups currently performing, and appears in every major concert hall and at all the significant international festivals.

Top: Devín Castle at the Slovak-Austrian border.

Above: The Vienna Piano Trio ©Nancy Horowitz.

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Today’s concert celebrates the Slavic ingredient of the Austro-Hungarian empire, with Dvořák’s Piano Trio No.3 in F Minor among other works. The venue is the Mirror Hall of the 18th-century residence of the Archbishops of Hungary, the grandest of Bratislava’s palaces.

Moor overnight at Bratislava.

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Day 5, Tuesday 21st August Fertöd

Drive from Slovakia into Hungary and to Eszterháza, summer residence of Prince Nikolaus of Esterházy and hence Joseph Haydn’s principal place of work for nearly thirty years. Perhaps the most spectacularly beautiful country house in Central Europe, this lateRococo, early-Neoclassical confection is gradually being restored to its former glory. Lunch is provided here under a grove of horsechestnuts (there is a wet-weather alternative).

Top: Eszterháza Palace at Fertöd in Hungary, copper engraving of the late 18th century.

Above: The Esterházy Ensemble.

Eszterháza Palace, Ceremonial Hall Esterházy Ensemble Baryton Trios The Esterházy Ensemble, directed by Michael Brüssing, specialises in music for the baryton and viola da gamba, and is particularly associated with the Haydn baryton trios so beloved of Prince Nikolaus Esterházy, himself a keen player of the instrument. Their recording of every one of these trios written by Haydn was completed in 2009, to widespread acclaim.

The baryton (viola di bordone) is an exotic stringed instrument rather like a bass viol with the addition of sympathetic strings. Rare even in the eighteenth century, it became an obsession of Prince Nikolaus Esterházy, who demanded a regular supply of music for the instrument.

Haydn duly obliged with duos, divertimenti, concertos and no fewer than 126 trios.

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 does not have a lift, nor do most of the venues. Participants need to be averagely fit, sure-footed and able to manage everyday walking and stairclimbing without difficulty.

The recital takes place in the principal hall of the palace, which is a delight - white and gold, classicism on holiday.

Seating fewer than a hundred, the audience splits and the hour-long concert is performed twice.

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

There is no age limit on our river festivals.

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Sail overnight from Bratislava to Tulln (Austria).

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‘Thank you to everyone concerned for an unforgettable experience… The whole week was a triumph.’

H.M., Surrey, The Danube Festival 2011.

Day 6, Wednesday 22nd August

Dürnstein Abbey, Prälatensaal Alina Ibragimova violin Bach Suites & Partitas

Atzenbrugg, Dürnstein

Alina Ibragimova was born in Russia and moved to England in 1996 when her father became principal double bass with the London Symphony Orchestra. She attended the Yehudi Menuhin School and began winning awards and plaudits at a very early age. She is now regarded as one of the most prodigiously gifted artists of her generation and has a flourishing international career.

Disembark at Tulln and drive to the village of Atzenbrugg. Here is a modest manor house once tenanted by the uncle of one of Schubert’s circle, Franz von Schober, whither Schubert came with friends in the early 1820s. Entertainments were contrived which came to be known as ‘Schubertiades’ – music was played, songs sung, poems read, drinks drunk, jolly japes perpetrated.

Schloss Atzenbrugg Henk Neven baritone Hans Eijsackers piano Schubert Songs

The venue is the principal reception room in the abbey, perfect in size and shape for a recital of solo violin, handsomely decorated with Neoclassical frescoes.

Sail overnight from Dürnstein to Linz.

Henk Neven won the Fortis MeesPierson Award in 2008, joined the Radio 3 New Generation Artists Scheme in 2009 and won the Dutch Music Prize, the Netherlands’ highest honour for a classical musician, in 2011. He has a busy career in opera houses and concert halls throughout Europe.

Also Dutch, Hans Eijsackers was born in 1967 and won many prizes at an early age. He performs as a soloist, accompanist and chamber musician, and is a piano professor at both the Academy of Utrecht and the Royal Conservatory of The Hague.

Wood-framed, Viennese and dating to 1864, the piano at Schloss Atzenbrugg produces a sound with which Schubert would have been familiar. The hall seats fewer than a hundred, so the audience splits and the hour-long recital is performed twice.

Clockwise, from above left: Henk Neven; Alina Ibragimova; Hans Eijsackers ©Marco Borggreve.

After the concert, sail upstream to Dürnstein once more, where the ship moors in the late afternoon.

Dürnstein, steel engraving after Jacob Alt c. 1840.

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Left: Linz, main square and Old Cathedral, aquatint with etching c. 1930.

Above: The Scottish Ensemble ©Joanne Green.

Day 7, Thursday 23rd August

Day 8, Friday 24th August

Moor in the morning at Linz, capital of Upper Austria. Around the huge market square, which is only yards away from the mooring, lies a picturesque maze of streets, passages and historic buildings. There is time to explore the city and its museums.

The ship moors at Passau and coaches leave for Munich city centre and the airport between 8.30 and 9.30am.

Linz

Passau, Munich

Option 1. Those who flew from Heathrow at 9.30am join a return flight (LH 2476) which is scheduled to arrive into London Heathrow at 2.20pm. Coaches take you directly from Passau to Munich Airport.

Palais Kaufmännischer Verein, Picture Hall Scottish Ensemble Jonathan Morton Artistic Director Austro-Hungarian Finale

Option 2. Those who flew from Heathrow at 11.00am join a return flight (LH 2480) which is scheduled to arrive into London Heathrow at 7.20pm. Coaches take you first to the centre of Munich, where you have about four hours of free time, before continuing to the airport.

The Scottish Ensemble is a renowned string ensemble formed from some of the best string players in Europe, led from the violin by Artistic Director Jonathan Morton. Based in Glasgow, the Ensemble plays internationally and in recent years tours have included China, Germany and France, while in Scotland they have an annual 30-concert series.

Option 3. Those flying to Manchester have two hours in the centre of Munich before being taken to the airport. The flight (LH 2502) is due to arrive into Manchester International airport at 4.45pm.

Option 4. Those who have made their own flight arrangements are welcome to join one of the transfers to Munich or the airport.

The final programme is a medley of string pieces from the Austro-Hungarian Empire: Mozart’s Divertimento in F (K138), Dvořák’s Notturno and Serenade, JanáČek’s Kreutzer, and Bruckner’s Adagio (he spent much of his life in Linz).

Pre-festival tour. Those who flew out with Salzburg Summer join the Option 1 return flight (please see above).

The concert is held in the Palais Kaufmännischer Verein, which has a suite of lavishly decorated halls built in the 1890s for assorted gatherings and celebrations. The ‘Picture Hall’ is a fin-de-siècle creation smeared with gilded neoBaroque motifs and ennobled with fine history paintings.

Sail upstream from Linz to Passau, with a reception and dinner against a backdrop of river and wooded hills.

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The Speakers Roderick Swanston is a musicologist widely known as a lecturer and critic, combining immense learning with wit and enthusiasm. Formerly professor of music theory and history at the Royal College of Music, he lectures at Imperial College London, is a speaker at several music festivals and concert halls and is a frequent broadcaster on BBC Radios 3 and 4.

Britain’s leading provider of cultural tours

At Martin Randall Travel we aim to provide the best planned, best led and altogether the most fulfilling and enjoyable cultural tours available. Within Europe and the Middle East we offer an unsurpassed range of events focusing primarily on art, architecture and music, and also on archaeology, history and gastronomy.

MRT has for over two decades led the cultural tours market through incessant innovation and improvement, setting the benchmarks for itinerary planning, operational systems and service standards. There are two kinds of holiday:

All-inclusive music festivals began with the Danube in 1994, since when they have spread from St. Petersburg to Seville and from Newcastle to Naples. The audiences number between forty and three hundred.

Tim Blanning is Emeritus Professor of Modern European History at the University of Cambridge, Fellow of Sidney Sussex College and Fellow of the British Academy. Among his many books are Joseph II, the award-winning The Culture of Power and the Power of Culture, the best-selling The Pursuit of Glory: Europe 1648–1815 and the much-translated The Triumph of Music.

Small-group tours, all accompanied by an expert lecturer, have twenty-two participants or fewer. Commencing in 1988, there are now around two hundred a year in nearly forty countries.

Munich, Marienplatz and cathedral towers, lithograph after Samuel Prout 1839.

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The Ship The MS Amadeus Elegant is one of the more comfortable cruisers on the waterways of Europe. The multi-national crew is dedicated to the highest standards of service.

Cabins

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, writing desk, telephone, TV, hairdrier and safe. Special attention has been paid to noise insulation to ensure quiet, even when under way.

Suite, c. 22m2 1. Bed 2. Television 3. Toilet 4. Wash basin 5. Bath-tub 6. Cabinet 7. Telephone 8. Writing desk 9. Balcony 10. Armchair 11. Minibar 12. Table 13. Chair

In layout and furnishings all of the cabins are identical apart from the suites, the significant differences being the size of windows and height above water level (higher cabins enjoy marginally better views and fewer stairs).

Those on the top two decks (‘Mozart’ and ‘Strauss’) are the most desirable, with the former having floor to ceiling windows (177 x 211 cm) on the outer wall which slide open, and the latter having only slightly smaller windows (145 x 211 cm), which also slide open. Also on the ‘Mozart deck’ are nine suites measuring approximately 22m2 which have armchairs and table, a bath and minibar in addition to the standard cabin facilities. The suites have comparable windows to those in other ‘Mozart deck’ cabins, but specifications vary. Please contact us for details.

Cabin, c. 15m2 1. Bed 2. Television 3. Toilet 4. Wash basin 5. Shower 6. Cabinet 7. Telephone 8. Writing desk 9. Window façade 10. Chair

Cabins on the lowest (‘Haydn’) deck have smaller windows (35 x 153 cm) that do not open.

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

The public areas on the uppermost (‘Mozart’) deck include the lounge and bar, and a library area. The restaurant is located on the middle (‘Strauss’) deck, and can seat everyone at a single sitting. The sun deck has a small heated pool and a tented area for shade.

Top to bottom: Mozart deck suite; Mozart deck cabin; Haydn deck cabin.

Deck plan

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

This festival was devised and planned by Martin Randall and Lizzie Howard. The brochure was designed inhouse by Jo Murray.

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2012 Festivals

The Package, Prices The Festival Package Admission to all nine concerts (six concerts for the walking party) and daily lectures.

Accommodation on a first-class river cruiser for seven nights, or in hotels for the walking party for six nights.

A choice of flights between the UK and Munich for those on the ship, or London and Vienna for the walking party. (There is a price reduction if you do not use these.)

All meals, from dinner on the first day to breakfast on the last, with wine, and interval drinks. For the walkers, 5 dinners and 4 lunches are included.

Coach travel between airport and ship or hotel and to the concert venues (when not reached on foot).

All tips, taxes and admission charges.

Prices Haydn Deck (lowest) £2,900 per person sharing a cabin £3,480 for single occupancy

Martin Randall Travel runs four or five all-inclusive music festivals per year. We provide not only the audience but also the music: artists, venues, programming. Travel, accommodation, meals and lectures are all part of these unique packages.

Strauss Deck (middle) £3,540 per person sharing a cabin £4,240 for single occupancy

In 2012, as well as The Danube Music Festival, we are running the following festivals:

Suites (Mozart Deck) £4,440 per person sharing a cabin

The Rhine Valley Music Festival

Mozart Deck (top) £3,860 per person sharing a cabin £4,630 for single occupancy

No-flights option: if you do not want one of the festival flights, subtract £160 from these prices.

Deposit: £300 per person

Practical and historical information and a detailed programme booklet.

The assistance of an experienced team of festival staff.

31 May–7 June 2012 Nine concerts in historic buildings, with Paul Lewis (piano), the Schuppanzigh Quartet and the Mandelring Quartet.

Among the other performers are some of the most outstanding period instrument ensembles in Europe, La Petite Bande, Cantus Cölln, the Freiburger Barockorchester and the Amphion Wind Octet. This festival is already on sale.

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The Divine Office

24–28 September 2012 A celebration of choral music in Oxford college chapels, the centrepiece of which is a cycle of the eight Offices of the Hours, sung at the appropriate times of day. There is a total of seventeen performances by the best of Oxford’s college choirs and several professional groups including the Tallis Scholars, Stile Antico and the Gabrieli Consort. This festival is already on sale.

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A Festival of Music in Rome 4–9 November 2012

Concerts in some of the most glorious palaces and churches in Rome by some of the world’s leading interpreters of Baroque and Renaissance music. Details available Spring 2012.

After a drawing by Phil May, 1894.

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Salzburg Summer Day 2. A leisurely start before the morning concert, and a talk. Morning concert at the Mozarteum with the Salzburg Mozarteum Orchestra, Heinz Holliger (conductor), Thomas Zehetmair (violin), Ruth Killius (viola): Luigi Dalla Piccola, ‘Piccola Musica Notturna’; Mozart, Sinfonia Concertante for violin, viola and orchestra, K364; Holliger, world première of a work commissioned by the Salzburg Festival; Mozart, ‘Eine Kleine Nachtmusik’.

In the afternoon there is an introductory walk around the historic centre of the city.

Evening opera at the Großes Festspielhaus: Tamerlano (Handel), with Les Musiciens du Louvre and Marc Minkowski, Bajun Mehta (Tamerlano), Plácido Domingo (Bajazet), Julia Lezhneva (Asteria), Franco Fagioli (Andronico), Marianne Crebassa (Irene), Michael Volle (Leone).

Salzburg, after a drawing by W.H. Drake published in 1937.

11–17 August 2011 (my 325) 7 days • £4,830 Lecturer: Professor Jan Smaczny Five operas and two concerts at the world’s most prestigious music festival.

Conductors include Ivor Bolton, Riccardo Chailly, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Riccardo Muti and Sir Simon Rattle, and among the singers are Magdalena Kožená, Plácido Domingo, Jonas Kaufmann and Michael Schade.

Talks and discussion about the music, visits and excursions in and around the exceptionally lovely little city of Salzburg and meals in the best restaurants.

This tour can be combined with The Danube Music Festival (17–24 August).

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.

Our selection this year includes an amazing line-up of great conductors, singers and orchestras. There is also a unique opportunity to see Mozart’s Magic Flute paired with its sequel, Peter Winter’s The M A RT I N R A N D A L L T R AV E L

Labyrinth, to a text by Schikanaeder (the librettist of Flute). Premiered in 1798, it was a huge success, with nearly eighty performances by 1805. This almost forgotten opera extends the adventures of Pamina, Tamino and Sarastro with theatrical bravado, spectacular scenery and captivating music by Winter, the chief composer to the Bavarian Court.

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 century, it was ruled by PrinceArchbishops 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. The prevalence of afternoon performances means that three of the evenings are without music, allowing for a leisurely dinner and an early night.

Itinerary

Day 1. Fly at c. 11.00am from London Heathrow to Munich. Drive through Bavaria to Austria and Salzburg (180km).

Introductory lecture followed by dinner.

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Day 3. A morning walk through the centre of Salzburg includes the Mozart family home, now an excellent museum, and the Mirabell Gardens. Afternoon opera at the Felsenreitschule: The Magic Flute (Mozart), Nikolaus Harnoncourt (conductor), JensDaniel Herzog (director), Georg Zeppenfeld (Sarastro), Bernard Richter (Tamino), Mandy Fredrich (the Queen of Night), Julia Kleiter (Pamina).

Day 4. Drive to St Gilgen, Mozart’s mother’s home village, and cross the lake by boat to St Wolfgang, a delightful village with a pilgrimage church housing an altarpiece by Michael Pacher (1481).

Free time in the afternoon. Evening opera at the Großes Festspielhaus: Carmen (Bizet), Sir Simon Rattle (conductor), Aletta Collins (director), Magdalena Kožená (Carmen), Jonas Kaufmann (Don José), Kostas Smoriginas (Escamillo).

Day 5. Visit the Neue Residenz which houses the excellently refurbished city museum and a chance to see some of the other historic buildings in the heart of the city. Afternoon opera at the Haus für Mozart: Ariadne auf Naxos (Strauss), Riccardo Chailly (conductor), Sven-Eric Bechtolf (director), Emily Magee (Ariadne), Elena Moșuc (Zerbinetta), Eva Liebau (Naiad), MarieClaude Chappuis (Dryad), Eleonora Buratto (Echo), Roberto Saccà (Bacchus), Gabriel Bermúdez (Harlequin), Michael Laurenz (Scaramuccio), Tobias Kehrer (Truffaldino), Martin Mitterrutzner (Brighella), Peter Matić (the Major-Domo).

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The afternoon is free. Evening opera at the Residenzhof: The Labyrinth (Von Winter): Ivor Bolton (conductor), Alexandra Liedtke (director), Christof Fischesser (Sarastro), Julia Novikova (the Queen of Night), Malin Hartelius (Pamina), Michael Schade (Tamino), Thomas Tatzl (Papageno), Regula Mühlemann (Papagena), Anton Scharinger (Old Papageno), Ute Gfrerer (Old Papagena).

Day 7. Morning concert at the Großes Festspielhaus with the Vienna Philharmonic, Riccardo Muti (conductor), Julia Kleiter (soprano), Saimir Pirgu (tenor), Ildar Abdrazakov (bass), Vienna Philharmonic, Concert Association of the Vienna State Opera Chorus: Liszt, ‘Von der Wiege bis zum Grabe’ and ‘Les Préludes’; Berlioz, Messe Solenelle.

Lunch in Salzburg before driving to Munich. Fly from Munich Airport, arriving at Heathrow at 7.20pm. Or, if joining The Danube Music Festival, by coach to Passau, joining the festival in the afternoon.

Practicalities

Price: £4,830 (deposit £400). This includes: tickets to 5 operas and 2 concerts costing c. £1,860; air travel (economy class) on scheduled Lufthansa flights (Airbus 320); private coach travel for transfers and excursions; accommodation as described below; breakfasts, 3 lunches and 4 dinners with wine, water, coffee; all admissions; all tips; all taxes; the services of the lecturer.

Single supplement £370. Price without flights £4,610. Should you choose to combine this tour with The Danube Music Festival, the latter will be charged at the no-flights price.

The transfer between Salzburg and Passau is included.

Hotel: a comfortable 4-star hotel, a short walk from the Mirabell Gardens and the Mozarteum. The venues of the other six performances are about 35 minutes away on foot. Transport is provided for those who wish, when dinners are not en route. Rooms are modern, public areas more traditional.

Dinners are at the hotel and in restaurants elsewhere.

How strenuous? Quite a lot of walking.

Average distance by coach per day: 40 miles.

Small group: between 10 and 22 participants.

Krems, early 20th-century etching.

17–23 August 2012 (my 332) 7 days• £2,880 (includes 6 concerts) Lecturer: Richard Wigmore This variant on the festival package includes six concerts and five half-day country walks.

The Austrian stretch of the Danube valley is, for much of its length, of considerable beauty, with much variety of landscape – cultivated lowlands, forested peaks, open alluvial plains, vine-clad hillsides, upland pastures, and, of course, the mighty river meandering towards the Black Sea. There are pine and fir and larch, but broadleaves predominate – beech, birch, oak, poplar.

Though hardly classifiable as strenuous, this tour should only be considered by those who are used to regular country walking with some uphill content. There are hills, and a few fairly steep climbs for short stretches, but no mountains, and most of the routes are along gently undulating paths. The durations are between two and two-and-ahalf hours.

Fuller details of the concerts are given on pages 4–10.

Itinerary

Day 1: London to Vienna. Fly at c. 2.00pm from London Heathrow to Vienna and drive to Melk, a little town on the Danube nestling under the mighty abbey. First of two nights in Melk.

Day 2: Melk, Dürnstein. Drive beside the Danube to begin the walk from Felbring to Emmersdorf (c. 2 1/2 hours). This passes

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over low hills and through fields and woods.

Towards the end there are glimpses of the dome and spires and finally the whole vast bulk of Melk Abbey across the river. After lunch, return to Melk where there is a chance to visit the abbey state apartments and church, which are among the most brilliant creations of the Age of Baroque, before the early evening recital.

Concert with Stile Antico in Melk Abbey (see page 5).

Dinner is on board MS Amadeus Elegant with the ship-borne festival participants.

The ship sails downstream to Dürnstein where there is another concert.

Concert in Dürnstein Abbey with Stile Antico (see page 5).

Return by coach to Melk.

Day 3: Leopoldsberg, Vienna. Drive towards Vienna and up the Leopoldsberg, a high hill from where there are fine views over the capital and the Danube valley.

Descend through beech woods, vineyards and salubrious ivy-clad suburbs (c. 11/2 hours). In the attractive wine-producing village of Heiligenstadt, visit the appartment where Beethoven lived (and wrote the ‘Heiligenstadt Testament’). Drive into the centre of Vienna and settle into the hotel before the early evening recital.

Concert in the Albertina with Christiane Karg and Burkhard Kehring (see page 6).

Spend the first of three nights in Vienna.

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Day 4: Vienna, Bratislava. Free morning in Vienna. In the early afternoon drive to Bratislava, where there is a little free time to explore this highly attractive capital of Slovakia.

From The Foreign Tour of Brown, Jones & Robinson

by Richard Doyle (1824–1883).

Concert in the Primatial Palace with the Vienna Piano Trio (see page 7).

Return by coach to Vienna.

Day 5: Fertöd, Vienna. Drive through the gently rolling Burgenland countryside and enter Hungary for a walk through the wetlands of the Neusiedler See. Drive on to Fertöd. The Esterházys’ 1780s summer palace at Fertöd is the largest country house in Hungary, and the most beautiful.

Visit the restored apartments and the tumbledown outbuildings. Lunch is a buffet in a grove of horse-chestnuts.

Concert in Eszterháza Palace with the Esterházy Ensemble (page 8).

Third and final night in Vienna.

Day 6: Göttweig, Dürnstein. Drive up to Göttweig Abbey, a magnificent building which crowns a prominent hill, and begin the walk (c. 2 hours), which incorporates a segment of the pilgrimage route to Santiago.

After a steep descent, walk to the Danube through vineyards on gently inclined land.

Cross the river for lunch in Krems and then drive on to Dürnstein for the final night of the tour.

Concert in Dürnstein Abbey Church with Alina Ibragimova (see page 9).

Overnight Dürnstein.

Day 7: Dürnstein. Set off on foot along a little-used road which climbs into the vineclad hills overlooking the Danube and dips periodically into shaded gullies – a highly attractive walk (c. 2 1/2 hours) with abundant wild flowers, butterflies and views over redroofed villages in the valley below. Return to the hotel before travelling by coach to Vienna Airport. Return to Heathrow at c.

6.30pm.

Practicalities

Price £2,880 (deposit: £250). This includes: air travel (economy class) on scheduled bmi (British Midland) flights (Airbus A319 and A321); travel by coach for transfers and excursions; six private concerts (The Danube Music Festival); accommodation as described below; breakfasts, 4 lunches and 5 dinners, with wine, water, coffee; admission M A RT I N R A N D A L L T R AV E L

charges to museums; all tips and taxes; the services of the lecturer and tour manager.

Single supplement £310. Price without flights £2,650.

Lecturer. Richard Wigmore is a music writer, lecturer and broadcaster who writes for BBC Music Magazine, Gramophone, Goldberg and for many record labels and concert halls. He can be heard regularly on BBC Radio 3, and gives classes in Lied history and interpretation at Birkbeck College, London University. He is a graduate of Cambridge University and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, London. Publications include Schubert: the complete song texts (Gollanz 1992) and The Pocket Guide to Haydn (Faber 2009).

Hotels. Melk (2 nights): a family-run 4-star hotel in the centre of the town, fairly 16

simple but adequately comfortable. Vienna (3 nights): a 5-star hotel in a historic building on the Ringstrasse. All rooms are well equipped and most have a bath. There are two restaurants and a bar. Dürnstein (1 night): a lovely old-fashioned hotel occupying a historic building with garden and outdoor pool.

How strenuous? This is a walking tour: it is essential for participants to be in good physical condition and to be used to country walking with uphill content. There are a few moderately steep climbs for short stretches, but no walk is more than 5 miles or 2.5 hours. Except on one occasion, there is opportunity to return to the hotel to freshen up before every concert or dinner.

Small group: the tour will operate with between 9 and 22 participants.

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It is essential to be able to cope with the walking and the steps required to get to the concert venues. See ‘Fitness’ on page 8.

There is no age limit for the festival, though we cannot accept bookings on the tour preceding the festival or on ‘Walking the Danube’ from those who would be 81 or over at the time of departure.

Passports and visas Participants must have passports, valid for at least six months beyond the date of the festival. No visas are required for the countries visited during the festival (Austria, Germany, Hungary, Slovakia) for UK or other EU citizens, or for citizens of the USA, Canada, Australia or New Zealand.

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