Mid-week & weekend Chamber Music, 2018–2019 season

Mid-week & weekend

Chamber Music

2018/19 SEASON The Endellion String Quartet The Albion Quartet ‘Rising Stars’ featuring the Castalian String Quartet, Amatis Trio, Clare Hammond and The Gesualdo Six The Nash Ensemble The Heath Quartet The Fitzwilliam String Quartet

INTRODUCTION

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Hear great Classical music performed by outstanding musicians of international repute.

Enjoy the intimacy and intensity of a recital hall little bigger than a large drawing room.

Listen to pre-concert talks by a musicologist or by the musicians themselves.

Mingle with the musicians and the speaker as well as likeminded fellow music lovers.

Stay in a famous and very comfortable hotel, and enjoy great food.

‘ It felt like a well-organised house party with all the musicians joining in. The level of professionalism and yet the feeling of informality was superb.’ Participant on a Music Weekend in 2017.

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Opt for a package which includes accommodation for two nights and dinners, or select tickets for individual concerts (complementary interval drinks for all).

Martin Randall Festivals staff are in attendance to help these events run smoothly and enjoyably.

Illustration: woodcut by Pietro Parigi, 1922.

CONTENTS

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15–17 October 2018 The Swan Hotel, Lavenham

23–25 November 2018 The Castle Hotel, Taunton

25–27 January 2019 The Castle Hotel, Taunton

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1–3 March 2019 The Castle Hotel, Taunton

5–7 April 2019 The Castle Hotel, Taunton

THE ENDELLION STRING QUARTET

THE NASH ENSEMBLE

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THE HOTELS

THE ALBION QUARTET

THE HEATH QUARTET

RISING STARS

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THE FITZWILLIAM STRING QUARTET 14–16 May 2019 The Swan Hotel, Lavenham

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BOOKING DETAILS

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THE ENDELLION STRING QUARTET 15–17 October 2018 (me 221) The Swan Hotel, Lavenham Price: from £760 Speaker: Stephen Johnson

Andrew Watkinson violin Ralph de Souza violin Garfield Jackson viola David Waterman cello During the course of three days, we will cover 100 years of extraordinary quartet development, from early Haydn to Janáček. We will hear works by some of the greatest quartet composers – Haydn, Beethoven, Schubert and Mendelssohn – as well as celebrated quartets by composers more famous for works in other genres.

The Endellion String Quartet has been together for almost forty years, and during that time has captivated audiences worldwide, ‘playing to each other with a sense almost of discovery, communicating to the audience on a level of unusual intimacy’ (The Guardian). The group has won multiple awards, including the prestigious Royal Philharmonic Society Award for Best Chamber Ensemble in 1996.

Monday 15 October, 5.15pm Pre-concert talk: 4.45pm

Prices

Schubert, Quartettsatz D703 Mendelssohn, Quartet No.3 in D, Op.44 No.1 Smetana, String Quartet No.1 in E

Two sharing (per person): Standard double or twin £760 Superior double or twin £810 Junior suite £890 Suite £960

Tuesday 16 October, 11.00am Pre-concert talk: 10.30am

Single occupancy: Double room for sole use £780

Haydn, Quartet Op.20 No.5 Beethoven, Quartet Op.14 No.1 Debussy, Quartet Op.10

Tuesday 16 October, 5.15pm Pre-concert talk: 4.45pm Beethoven, Quartet Op.18 No.3 Janáček, Quartet No.1 Tchaikovsky, Quartet No.1

Wednesday 17 October, 11.00am Pre-concert talk: 10.30am

Prices include: all concerts and pre-concert talks, accommodation for two nights at The Swan Hotel & Spa, breakfasts, two afternoon teas, two dinners, interval drinks, programme, tips for hotel staff.

Individual concert tickets: £20 mornings, £25 evenings.

Interval drinks and a programme are also included. See page 15 for how to book these.

Wolf, Italian Serenade Haydn, Quartet Op.76 No.1 Beethoven, Quartet Op.59 No.2 Speaker. Stephen Johnson often presents BBC Radio 3’s Discovering Music and broadcasts on BBC Radio 4. He has also been a critic and journalist.

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Photo: ©Eric Richmond.

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THE ALBION QUARTET 23–25 November 2018 (me 320) The Castle Hotel, Taunton Price: from £780 Speaker: Richard Wigmore

Tamsin Waley-Cohen violin Emma Parker violins Rosalind Ventris viola Nathaniel Boyd cello The Albion Quartet have fast-established a reputation for imaginative and eclectic programming – the music performed at this weekend will range from ‘Papa Haydn’ to the 20th century, to William Walton’s String Quartet No.1.

The group’s four members each previously performed with some of the UK’s foremost ensembles (the Badke and Navarra Quartets, and the London Bridge Trio), and have enjoyed numerous competition successes including winning the Melbourne and Florence International Chamber Music Competitions, and awards from the Borletti-Buitoni Trust and ECHO Rising Stars, among others.

They describe themselves as having come together through the shared belief in the visceral, communicative power of the string quartet – along with a thirst for exploring the repertoire of the genre through innovative and creative programming.

Friday 23 November, 6.00pm Pre-concert talk: 5.30pm Haydn, Quartet in F minor, Op.20 No.5 Walton, String Quartet No.1

Saturday 24 November, 11.00am Pre-concert talk: 10.30am Haydn, Quartet in C, Op.20 No.2 Dvořák, String Quartet No.10 in E flat, Op.51 Slavonic

Saturday 24 November, 6.00pm Pre-concert talk: 5.30pm Haydn, String Quartet in D, Op.64, No.5 Lark Beethoven, String Quartet No.10 in E flat, Op.74 Harp

Sunday 25 November, 11.00am Pre-concert talk: 10.30am Mozart, String Quartet No.21 in D, K.575 Prussian No.1 Beethoven, String Quartet No.13 in B flat, Op.130 Lieb Speaker. Richard Wigmore is a writer, lecturer, and broadcaster for BBC Radio 3. He writes for BBC Music Magazine and Gramophone.

Prices Two sharing (per person): Standard double or twin £780 Garden Room: £960 Single occupancy: Single room (single bed) £780 Doubles for sole use may be available at a later stage for a supplement.

One dinner only: subtract £40 if you wish to attend one dinner only.

Prices include: all concerts and talks, accommodation for two nights at The Castle Hotel, breakfasts, two afternoon teas, dinners (choose to attend one or two dinners), interval drinks, programme, tips for hotel staff.

Individual concert tickets: £20 mornings, £25 evenings.

Interval drinks and a programme are also included. See page 15 for how to book these.

Photo: ©Steve Gullick.

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RISING STARS 25–27 January 2019 (mf 413) The Castle Hotel, Taunton Price: from £780 Speaker: Stephen Johnson

Castalian String Quartet The Gesualdo Six Amatis Piano Trio Clare Hammond piano Three ensembles and a soloist descend on Taunton for an exciting opportunity to hear some of the highly talented musicians in the early stages of their career. ‘Rising stars’ is perhaps a misnomer is some cases: they have already risen (or risen further since we engaged them) and are already in demand by concert halls and festivals worldwide.

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Castalian String Quartet Formed in 2011, the Castalian Quartet enjoyed success on the competition circuit (prizes at Lyon, Hannover and Banff ) and won awards from the Young Classical Artists Trust in 2016 and the Borletti-Buitoni Trust in 2018. They are now being signed up by promoters across Europe, Wigmore Hall among them.

Clare Hammond (piano) Clare is a pianist of ‘amazing power and panache’ (Telegraph) and is recognised for the virtuosity and authority of her performances and for her ‘brilliantly imaginative concert programmes’ (BBC Music ‘Rising Star’). In 2016, she won the Royal Philharmonic Society’s ‘Young Artist Award’.

The Gesualdo Six Comprising some of the UK’s finest young consort singers, the group was formed in 2014 for a performance of Gesualdo’s Tenebrae Responsories in Cambridge. They went on to give over sixty performances around the United Kingdom and abroad in its first three years. The director, Owain Park, is also a composer.

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Amatis Piano Trio Violinist Lea Hausmann, cellist Samuel Shepherd and pianist Mengjie Han founded The Amatis in 2014. Since winning the audience prize at the GrachtenfestivalConcours in Amsterdam, and the International Parkhouse Award at Wigmore Hall in 2015, they have been named Dutch Classical Talent 2016 and become BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artists.

Friday 25 January, 6.00pm Pre-concert talk: 5.30pm Castalian String Quartet Haydn, String Quartet in C, Op.20, No.2 Britten, String Quartet No.2 in C, Op.36 Brahms, String Quartet No.2 in A minor, Op.51, No.2

Saturday 26 January, 11.00am Clare Hammond piano Pre-concert talk: 10.30am Haydn, Sonata in C, Hob XVI:48; Mendelssohn, The Bee’s Wedding; Schumann, Humoreske, Op.20; Debussy, Préludes, selection; Rimsky-Korsakov, Flight of the Bumblebee; Rachmaninov, Sonata No.2 in B flat, Op.36.

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Saturday 26 January, 6.00pm & 9.15pm Pre-concert talk: 5.00pm The Gesualdo Six Part 1 will be held in the St John’s Church in Taunton (pre-concert talk at the hotel), with the second part at the hotel after dinner.

Part 1: St John’s Church, 6.00pm Tallis, Te lucis ante terminum; Cornelius, The Three Kings; De Machaut, Gloria from Messe de Nostre Dame; Byrd, Aspice Domine; Rimkus, My Heart is Singing Like a Bird; Marsh, Fading; Ligeti, Selection from Nonsense Madrigals; Park, Sequence In Parenthesis; Rheinberger, Abendlied Part 2: The Castle Hotel, 9.15pm Londonderry Air arr. Peter Knight; Molly Malone arr. Owain Park; Tallis, selection from Tunes for Archbishop Parker’s Psalter; Greensleeves arr. Bob Chilcott; The Oak & the Ash arr. Gordon Langford; Poulenc, Les Petites Voix; Oh my love is like a red, red rose arr.

Simon Carrington; Migildi Magaldi arr. Bill Ives.

Sunday 27 January, 11.00am Pre-concert talk: 10.30am Amatis Piano Trio Beethoven, Piano Trio in E flat, Op.1, No.1 Shostakovich, Piano Trio No.1 in C minor, Op.8 Mendelssohn, Piano Trio No.1 in D minor, Op.49 Speaker. Stephen Johnson often presents BBC Radio 3’s Discovering Music and broadcasts on BBC Radio 4. He has also been a critic and journalist.

Prices Two sharing (per person): Standard double or twin £780 Garden Room: £960 Single occupancy: Single room (single bed) £780 Doubles for sole use may be available at a later stage for a supplement.

Prices include: all concerts and talks, accommodation for two nights at The Castle Hotel, breakfasts, two afternoon teas, dinners (choose to attend one or two dinners), interval drinks, programme, tips for hotel staff.

One dinner only: subtract £40 if you wish to attend one dinner only.

Photos, left–right: Amatis Piano Trio ©Ib Hausmann; Clare Hammond ©Julie Kim; Castalian String Quartet ©Kaupo Kikkas; Gesualdo Six ©Ash Mills.

Individual concert tickets: Friday 25 January, evening: £25.

Both morning concerts: £20.

Saturday 26 January, evening: £30 for parts 1 and 2 combined, or £20 for just one part.

Interval drinks and a programme are also included. See page 15 for how to book these.

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THE NASH ENSEMBLE 1–3 March 2019 (mf 431) The Castle Hotel, Taunton Price: from £810 Speaker: Misha Donat

Ian Brown piano Benjamin Nabarro violin Zoë Beyers violin Lawrence Power viola Adrian Brendel cello Described as ‘chamber music royalty’ (Sunday Times) the Nash Ensemble has been thrilling audiences with its adventurous programming and virtuoso performances for over forty years.

It has premièred over 300 new works, of which over 200 have been specially commissioned.

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

Five members of the Nash join us for a weekend of music for piano and strings, including some for strings alone. Their first three concerts will offer us some of the best-known works in the repertoire. For their finale, a celebration of three of our greatest English composers: Britten, Bridge and Elgar – perhaps fitting, in this quintessentially English setting.

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Friday 1 March, 6.00pm Pre-concert talk: 5.30pm Haydn, Piano Trio in G, Hob. XV:25, Gypsy Mozart, Piano Concerto No.21 in E flat, K.449 Schumann, Piano Quintet, Op.44

Saturday 2 March, 11.00am Pre-concert talk: 10.30am Dvořák, Piano Quartet, Op.87 Brahms, Piano Quintet, Op.34

Saturday 2 March, 6.00pm Pre-concert talk: 5.30pm Haydn, String Quartet in B flat, Op.76 No.4 Sunrise Dvořák, Piano Quintet, Op.81

Sunday 3 March, 11.00am Pre-concert talk: 10.30am Frank Bridge, Phantasie Quartet in F-sharp minor, H.55 Britten, Three Divertimenti for String Quartet No.12 Elgar, Piano Quartet, Op.84 No.40 Speaker. Misha Donat is a writer and lecturer. He is a regular broadcaster, and a speaker at several British concert venues.

Prices Two sharing (per person): Standard double or twin £810 Garden Room: £990 Single occupancy: Single room (single bed) £810 Doubles for sole use may be available at a later stage for a supplement.

Prices include: all concerts and talks, accommodation for two nights at The Castle Hotel, breakfasts, two afternoon teas, dinners (choose to attend one or two dinners), interval drinks, programme, tips for hotel staff.

One dinner only: subtract £40 if you wish to attend one dinner only.

Individual concert tickets: £20 mornings, £25 evenings.

Interval drinks and a programme are also included. See page 15 for how to book these.

Photos, clockwise from top left: Ian Brown; Benjamin Nabarro; Zoë Beyers; Adrian Brendel; Lawrence Power.

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THE HEATH QUARTET 5–7 April 2019 (mf 467) The Castle Hotel, Taunton Price: from £810 Speaker: Richard Wigmore

Oliver Heath violin Sara Wolstenholme violin Gary Pomeroy viola Christopher Murray cello Guest viola to be conf irmed

Friday 5 April, 6.00pm Pre-concert talk: 5.30pm Haydn, Quartet in D, Op.20 No.4 Mozart, Quintet No.2 in C, K.406 Mozart, Quintet in D, K.593

The dynamic and charismatic Heath Quartet, formed in 2002, have earned a reputation as one of the most exciting British chamber groups.

Saturday 6 April, 11.00am Pre-concert talk: 10.30am

Since winning the Royal Philharmonic Society’s Young Artists Award in 2013, they have won other prizes including the 2016 Gramophone Chamber Award for their recording of Tippett’s string quartets. They have had a busy 2017/18 season, including a 5-concert series at London’s Wigmore Hall and concert cycles at the Boulez Saal and Kilkenny Festival.

Saturday 6 April, 6.00pm Pre-concert talk: 5.30pm

Their programme focuses mainly on Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven – those of the two latter composers being indebted to the first. We will also hear Ravel’s Quartet in F, one of the definitive works for chamber strings from the early 20th century.

Speaker. Richard Wigmore is a writer, lecturer, and broadcaster for BBC Radio 3. He writes for BBC Music Magazine and Gramophone.

Mozart, Quartet No.19 in C, K.465 Ravel, Quartet in F Mozart, Quintet No.6, K.614

Beethoven, Quartet No.9 in C, Op.59, No.3 Rasumovsky Mozart, Quintet in G minor, K.516

Sunday 7 April, 11.00am Pre-concert talk: 10.30am Beethoven, Quartet in E flat Op.127 Mozart, Quintet in C, K.515

Prices Two sharing (per person): Standard double or twin £810 Garden Room: £990 Single occupancy: Single room (single bed) £810 Doubles for sole use may be available at a later stage for a supplement.

Prices include: all concerts and talks, accommodation for two nights at The Castle Hotel, breakfasts, two afternoon teas, dinners (choose to attend one or two dinners), interval drinks, programme, tips for hotel staff.

One dinner only: subtract £40 if you wish to attend one dinner only.

Individual concert tickets: £20 mornings, £25 evenings.

Interval drinks and a programme are also included. See page 15 for how to book these.

Photo: ©Simon Way.

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THE FITZWILLIAM STRING QUARTET 14 –16 May 2019 (mf 519) The Swan Hotel, Lavenham Price: from £790 Speaker: Alan George

Lucy Russell violin Marcus Barcham Stevens violin Alan George viola Sally Pendlebury cello The Fitzwilliam is now one of the longest established string quartets in the world, yet more recently its history is built around a younger generation of players combining amicably with one original member.

Tuesday 14 May, 5.15pm Pre-concert talk: 4.45pm Praetorius/Brahms, Chorale Prelude: Es ist ein Ros’ Enstsprungen, Op.122 No.8 Mozart, Ave Verum Corpus Suk, Meditation on the St Wenceslas Chorale Schubert, Quartet in G, D.887

Wednesday 15 May, 11.00am Pre-concert talk: 10.30am

Originally founded in Cambridge Purcell, Fantazias: No.8 in 1968, the group first became M Barcham-Stevens, Fantasias well known through a close after Purcell personal association with Bach, excerpts from The Art Shostakovich, who entrusted them of Fugue with the premières (in the West) of Beethoven, Quartet in his last three quartets.

C-sharp minor, Op.131 Their programme ranges chronologically from the birth of Praetorius in 1571 to the quartet’s own resident composer Marcus Barcham Stevens, demonstrating the unbelievable wealth and diversity of language and expression available to the 21st century string quartet.

The quartet’s viola player, Alan George, will give pre-concert talks.

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Wednesday 15 May, 5.15pm Pre-concert talk: 4.45pm

Prices Two sharing (per person): Standard double or twin £790 Superior double or twin £840 Junior suite £920 Suite £990 Single occupancy: Double room for sole use £810 Prices include: all concerts and pre-concert talks, accommodation for two nights at The Swan Hotel & Spa, breakfasts, two afternoon teas, two dinners, interval drinks, programme, tips for hotel staff.

Individual concert tickets: £20 mornings, £25 evenings.

Interval drinks and a programme are also included. See page 15 for how to book these.

Glazunov, Two Noveletten, Op.15 Shostakovich, Quartet No.14 Tchaikovsky, Quartet No.2, Op.22

Thursday 16 May, 11.00am Pre-concert talk: 10.30am Purcell, Music from The Fairy Queen Delius, Late Swallows Borodin, Quartet No.2 in D Haydn, Quartet in D Minor, Op.76 No.2 CONTACT US: +44 (0)20 8742 3355

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Extension with excursions 13–16 May 2019: You can choose to arrive a day early in Lavenham (Monday 13 May) and take guided excursions to parish churches around Suffolk.

Suffolk is rural England at its most alluring with outstandingly attractive towns and villages.

There is a clutch of parish churches of cathedral-like proportions which are at least partly Tudor in date. These glorious buildings, some of the most beautiful and best preserved parish churches in Europe, are evidence of the huge wealth the region accrued through the wool trade at the end of the Middle Ages.

Excursions are led by Dr James Alexander Cameron – an expert on mediaeval England. These are timed carefully to fit in around the concerts and meals.

Illustration: Bury St Edmunds, mid-19th-century lithograph.

Monday 13 May Leaving The Swan at 2.30pm, visit the mediaeval parish churches of Kedington and Clare.

Tuesday 14 May Morning visit to the churches of St Mary and St Andrew, and the church of St Mary and Cathedral of St James in Bury St Edmunds.

Wednesday 15 May Leaving on foot at 2.00pm, we visit the Church of St Peter & St Paul in Lavenham.

Thursday 16 May After the morning, we leave for lunch in Long Melford and then visit the Church of the Holy Trinity.

Choose to transfer back to the hotel or onwards to Sudbury.

Prices including 13 May and excursions Two sharing (per person): Standard double or twin £1,410 Superior double or twin £1480 Junior suite £1,590 Suite £1,700 Single occupancy: Double room for sole use £1,480 Prices include: all concerts and pre-concert talks, accommodation for three nights at The Swan Hotel & Spa, breakfasts, two afternoon teas, three dinners, four excursions (including admissions, transport, one lunch and the services of the lecturer), interval drinks, programme, tips for hotel staff.

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THE HOTELS

THE CASTLE HOTEL TAUNTON

THE SWAN HOTEL & SPA LAVENHAM

The Castle is renowned for its excellent service, for comforts traditional and modern, and for its superb catering. It has been owned and run by the Chapman family for over sixty years. Chamber music events have been held here since 1977, and we took over the running of them in 2003.

The Swan Hotel at Lavenham. has been an inn since 1667 and is one of the loveliest small-town hotels in England. It spreads through a number of contiguous half-timber buildings which date to the 15th and 16th centuries.

The hotel’s bedrooms are individually and charmingly decorated. Doubles and twins are mainly of a good size, and the largest – the Garden Rooms – overlook the garden. There is no single-occupancy supplement for the rooms with single beds. The majority of rooms have a bath with a shower fitment.

The hotel has a lift, though some bedrooms are then accessed via stairs. The Music Room is on a mezzanine level, up a flight of stairs from the lobby – there is provision for wheelchair users (please contact us for more information).

Taunton lies on the doorstep of Exmoor and the Quantocks, areas with some of the loveliest countryside in England. www.the-castle-hotel.com

The bedrooms have been recently renovated in a pleasingly restrained manner which retains their historical character. Most bathrooms have a bath with shower fitment. Facilities include a bar, extensive lounge areas, a brasserie and the Weavers’ House Spa. Festival dinners are served in the hall.

Due to the historical nature of the building, the hotel does not have a lift, and on the ground floor there are steps to negotiate. A limited number bedrooms are available on the ground floor. If you have access requirements, please contact us as soon as possible.

Lavenham is only around 60 miles from London and yet it feels a world apart, and an age away.

Surrounded by gently rolling farming country, this Suffolk village is noted for its outstanding 15thcentury church and half-timbered mediaeval houses. www.theswanatlavenham.co.uk

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The Endellion String Quartet (page 4) 15–17 October 2018 The Swan Hotel, Lavenham

THE SWAN HOTEL & SPA, LAVENHAM

The Albion Quartet (page 5) 23–25 November 2018 The Castle Hotel, Taunton

Two sharing:

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R ising Stars (pages 6–7) 25–27 January 2019 The Castle Hotel, Taunton

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he Nash Ensemble (page 8) T 1–3 March 2019 The Castle Hotel, Taunton The Heath Quartet (page 9) 5–7 April 2019 The Castle Hotel, Taunton Fitzwilliam String Quartet (pages 10–11) 14–16 May 2019 The Swan Hotel, Lavenham Tick to book the 13th May extension with excursions (see page 11)

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Please read the hotels information on page 12 if you use a wheelchair or have difficulties with negotiating stairs, and do contact us if you would like to discuss your access requirements in general.

For events in Taunton, individual concert ticket bookings are handled by the hotel. Please call 01823 272 671 or visit www.thecastle-hotel.com/ticketing.

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MRT is Britain’s leading specialist in cultural travel and one of the most respected tour operators and music promoters in the world. For nearly thirty years the company has led the field through incessant innovation and improvement, setting the benchmarks for itinerary planning, operational systems and service standards.

Martin Randall Travel Ltd

Voysey House Barley Mow Passage London W4 4GF Tel: +44 (0)20 8742 3355 info@martinrandall.co.uk www.martinrandall.com AITO 5085 ABTA Y6050

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