Seville: A Festival of Spanish Music (10–15 May 2012)

Seville A Festival of Spanish Music 10–15 May 2013

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Seville A Festival of Spanish Music 10–15 May 2013 Renaissance and Baroque Seville was a place of prosperity and dynamism, and as a consequence the arts flourished. Musicians and composers in particular found many eager patrons, and the city became a centre of music the equal of anywhere in Europe.

Columbus’s 1492 voyage of discovery.

Transatlantic conquest, pillage, trade and colonisation led to sudden and massive increase in wealth. Hopes of adventure and enrichment attracted the ambitious, the enterprising and the talented from all over Spain, and beyond.

administering the colonies and collecting taxes. As a principal residence of the kings of Spain and location of a lumbering bureaucracy, Seville became the de facto capital of the country – and this at a time when it was becoming the dominant power in Europe.

Seville was the principal Spanish gateway to the Americas in the century following Christopher

The state was deeply involved from the beginning, licensing the entrepreneurs, organising security,

This was not the first period during which Seville basked in prosperity and cultural sophistication. While most of the rest of Europe was enveloped in the Dark Ages, an enlightened civilization thrived here under four hundred years of Arab rule. And for generations after the conquest by Christians in 1248, Mudéjar artists, musicians and craftsmen dominated the higher arts.

This festival is a journey from Islamic, Jewish and Christian music of mediaeval Spain, through the musical glories of Seville’s Golden Age, to the works of Spanish composers of the early 20th century, so heavily influenced by Andalusian culture.

Leading exponents of Spanish early music – from Spain, Britain and Morocco – perform in a variety of beautiful historic buildings.

Matching music with place – that is the raison d’etre of this festival.

Carefully planned with regard to pace, balance, musical type and architecture, the experience is enhanced with talks, dinners, optional visits and the company of like-minded fellow participants.

Front cover illustration: In the Garden of the Alcazar, Seville, 1893, Elgood, George Samuel (1851–1943) / Private Collection / Photo © Chris Beetles Ltd, London / The Bridgeman Art Library.

‘There were extraordinary high points where music, execution and surroundings came together unforgettably.’

D.L., Oxfordshire, participant on a recent MRT festival.

Contents:

Joining the festival................................... 4

Independent or group travel?................. 13

The Programme................................. 5–11

Pre-festival tours:

The festival package................................. 4 More about the concerts.......................... 7 Fit for the festival.................................... 9 The Speakers.......................................... 12 Optional visits....................................... 12 Hotels & prices............................... 13–14

Extra meals............................................ 14 Off-beat Andalucía, 6–10 May 2013....... 15 Art in Madrid, 6–10 May 2013.............. 16 Booking form.................................. 17–18 Making a booking................................. 19 Booking conditions............................... 19

The kernel of Seville consists of a clutch of major buildings – among them the cathedral, largest church in the world, and the Alcázar, citadel and royal residence – linked by a sequence of ceremonial plazas. But tracts of the centre more resemble a small Andalusian town than a city once at the forefront of European affairs.

A dense network of alleys and tiny squares abut great edifices of church and state. Tendrils of narrow streets curl haphazardly towards the periphery, some flanked by whitewashed buildings of only two or three storeys. The strident sunlight is filtered through ironwork balconies and the pot plants which festoon them, and through emaciated doorways there are glimpses of tiled patios and lush greenery, and the sound of gently splashing water.

Seville is a city of birdsong. Orange trees line avenues and squares, palms and evergreens give shade in roadside havens. Extensive parks reach right to the city centre, ponds and fountains are never far away.

Teeming, cacophonous, a kaleidoscope of colour, Seville is a city of the south. Life is geared to the fierce heat of the summer, with darkened rooms, ubiquitous tiles and long siestas. There is a degree of denial about the chilly winters. By May summer is just beginning, meaning daytime temperatures should be pleasantly warm.

Illustration, opposite page: Seville, Giralda, wood engraving c. 1860. Above right: Sevillian street scene, engraving c. 1850.

Sevillians are not noted for their friendliness or subservience, many being among the last living embodiments of traditional Spanish grandeza. On the other hand Seville is famous for displays of passion with its extravagant and flamboyant fiestas, magnificent religious processions and the gritty intensity of flamenco (vitiated by staging, so we have not laid on a performance in this festival; we can point you to the backstreet bars for a more authentic experience).

Seville has the finest museum of Spanish art outside Madrid, superb and varied architecture, fabulously endowed churches, hauntingly picturesque vistas. Though tourists abound, very few stay more than a couple of days, leaving to you the luxury of prolonged exposure and the gentle acquisition of familiarity with a living, pulsating, becalmed, evocative and very real city.

One day of the festival is spent in Cádiz, whose history mirrored that of Seville, if on a smaller scale, and with the difference that it commanded one of the great natural harbours of the Atlantic seaboard. This really came into its own when the river route to Seville became impassable.

Much of the fabric of the city today – churches, public buildings and squares and the mighty ramparts – date from the eighteenth century.

Since then, Cádiz has settled happily into a low-key existence, its narrow streets, tree-lined boulevards and seafront promenades blissfully free of tourists. It is also a city with musical associations; Haydn’s fervently Catholic orchestral piece, The Seven Last Words of Christ on the Cross was commissioned for the Good Friday service here in 1786; and Manuel de Falla was born in Cádiz and is buried in the cathedral.

Joining the festival Flights from the UK. We are offering flights from London Heathrow to Seville, via Madrid, with British Airways and Iberia airlines on 9th or 10th May. It may be possible to arrange connecting flights from regional airports. Please enquire.

The ‘option’ you choose to fly out with also determines your inbound flights (see page 11 for details).

Arriving 9th May

Option 1. 9th May: depart London Heathrow 10.10, arrive Madrid 13.30 (BA 458). Depart Madrid 15.45, arrive Seville 16.55 (IB 2474).

Option 2. 9th May: depart London Heathrow 15.00, arrive Madrid 18.35 (IB 3179). Depart Madrid 19.55, arrive Seville 21.00 (IB 2476).

Arriving 10th May

Option 3. 10th May: depart London Heathrow 10.10, arrive Madrid 13.30 (BA 458). Depart Madrid 15.45, arrive Seville 16.55 (IB 2474).

Option 4. No flights. You can choose not to take any of these flights and instead make your own arrangements. There is a reduction of £220 per person for the package without flights.

Ryanair and Easyjet fly directly to Seville from London Gatwick and Stansted. Times and prices can be found on their websites (schedules are subject to change).

Left: The Alcazar, wood engraving from Le Tour du Monde, 1866.

The festival package

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

All tips for restaurant staff, porters and drivers, and all taxes.

Nine concerts. These are essentially private, and tickets to individual events will not be available.

During the festival there will be a team of Spanish-speaking staff to ensure that everything runs smoothly.

Accommodation for five or six nights (you choose) in one of five carefully selected hotels in the historic centre.

Every participant is provided with comprehensive information in a printed programme.

Flights between the UK and Spain with British Airways and Iberia. (There is a price reduction if you make your own arrangements for getting to Seville.)

Extra services which can be booked:

Coach travel between the airport and your hotel and to and from Cádiz.

Meals. Three dinners and one lunch with wine, mineral water and coffee, all breakfasts and interval drinks.

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Lectures on the music and on other aspects of Spanish history and culture.

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A range of optional visits led by art historians and appropriate experts (see page 12).

A package of two extra dinners (see page 14).

Pre-festival tours (see pages 15–16).

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The Programme Thursday 9th May

Evening concert: Songs of the Golden Age Orphénica Lyra, José Miguel Moreno (director) Raquel Andueza (soprano) Jordi Domenech (counter-tenor) Iglesia de Santa Cruz

The first festival event is dinner on Friday 10th May. However, there is the option of arriving in Seville a day early, allowing more time to settle in and explore. Flight Option 1 arrives at c.

5.00pm and Flight Option 2 at c. 9.00pm (or you can choose Option 4 and make your own way).

Orphénica Lyra perform sixteenth- and seventeenth- century songs by Guerrero, Mudarra, Fuenllana, Selma y Salaverde, Marín, Durón, Guerau and Hidalgo.

Participants on Option 1 are encouraged to let us know if they would like to eat with other festival participants this evening.

Friday 10th May

For those flying from London today (Option 3), arrival at your hotel in Seville is about 6.15pm, allowing time for a quick turnaround before dinner and the concert.

For those already in Seville the day is free until dinner and the evening concert. There is the option of joining a tour of the Fine Arts Museum and the Hospital de la Caridad with an MRT lecturer (see page 12). Or you could visit Córdoba, c. 40 minutes away by high-speed train. (This is not a guided tour, but we can advise on getting there.)

A tapas dinner for all participants precedes the concert.

Below: steel engraving after David Roberts, 1846 from The Chaplet.

Orphénica Lyra was established in 1999 and is dedicated to historically informed performance of Renaissance and Baroque Spanish music.Their founder and director, José Miguel Moreno, is Spain’s leading player of the vihuela (the courtly predecessor of the guitar), and one of the world’s leading performers of historical plucked instruments. Together they have made several award-winning recordings on the Glossa label and have toured throughout Europe and beyond.

Raquel Andueza studied in Pamplona, Madrid and at the Guildhall School of Music where she received the singing prize.

She works with many groups in Spain and abroad and appears in major music festivals across Europe.

Jordi Domenech was also a student at the Guildhall, and at the Royal Academy of Music, and has performed with leading ensembles including Early Opera Company and La Colombina.

He has appeared at La Scala, El Liceu and the Teatro Massimo in Palermo.

The Barrio de Santa Cruz is a pretty quarter of narrow, winding streets in the historic heart of Seville, and its parish church one of the great Baroque churches of the city. It is also one of the most restrained, an austerity deriving from its monastic origins.

Jordi Domenech.

Raquel Andueza.

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The Alcázar, engraving c. 1840.

Saturday 11th May Morning talks The day begins with an hour of talks on music, history and art

by Richard Langham Smith and Adam Hopkins. The venue is a small auditorium within the Teatro de la Maestranza. See page 12 for details of the speakers.

A concert follows, for which the audience divides.

Morning concert: Cancionero Music for the Spanish Court 1470–1520 Dufay Collective Casa de Salinas The combined courts of Ferdinand and Isabella of Castile and Aragon produced many musical treasures. The musical establishment was equal to any, with musicians and singers from around Europe welcomed into this lavish and creative environment. This concert represents a selection of the sounds and musical styles heard in the court entertainments and feasts in the late 15th century. Drawing largely from the great courtly song collection, the Cancionero Palacio and other contemporary sources, The Dufay Collective perform courtly songs, romantic and bucolic, interspersed with dances and instrumental fantasias on shawms, sackbut, vihuela, lute, harp, harpsichord, flute and recorders.

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The venue is the sixteenth-century Casa de Salinas, a modest palace in the Barrio de Santa Cruz with a beautiful Mudéjar arcaded patio at its core, now glazed over. It is still a family home.

The afternoon is free with the chance to join one of the optional visits (see page 12).

Evening concert: From Al-Andalus to Andalucía, Caliphs to Kings El Arabi Ensemble, Eduardo Paniagua (director) The Orlando Consort El Real Alcázar Seville’s Alcázar is a rare and beautiful monument to the unique cultural diversity of southern Spain in the Middle Ages and Renaissance. A royal palace built by generations of Christian kings, it incorporates some of the most beautiful Mudéjar architecture and decoration to have survived. A high defensive wall hides a sequence of halls and chambers and courtyards built and embellished from the thirteenth to the sixteenth centuries.

Glorious shady gardens share this private space.

The palace makes a marvellous setting for this mixed programme of Moorish, Sephardic and Christian music from the same centuries as the architecture. In the first part of the programme, participants promenade through the Mudéjar palace to hear solo and duet performances by Eduardo Paniagua and El Arabi Ensemble. w w w. m a r t i n r a n d a l l . c o m

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Top to bottom: The Orlando Consort; El Arabi Ensemble.

The Gold Tower, wood engraving in The Illustrated London News 1886.

For the second part these musicians perform as an ensemble in the Salón de Fiestas in the Gothic palace.

More about the concerts

Finally, the Orlando Consort perform a programme entitled Music for a Spanish Garden, an exploration of how composers of the early sixteenth century employed floral imagery to illustrate earthly and heavenly love.

Exclusive access. The concerts are private, being planned and administered by Martin Randall Travel exclusively for an audience of a maximum of 200.

Eduardo Paniagua is a pioneer in the performance of mediaeval music in Spain. He has formed several groups to explore Andalusian and Moorish repertoire and El Arabi Ensemble consists of one Spanish and three Moroccan musicians dedicated to evocative recontructions of Moorish music of al-Andalus and the Maghreb.

The Orlando Consort are four male voices from Britain. They have achieved a reputation as one of Europe’s most expert and consistently challenging groups performing repertoire from 1050 to 1550. They have appeared at many top festivals throughout the world and have made numerous recordings.

Dinner follows the concert.

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

Comfort. Seats in three of the venues are church pews; consider bringing a cushion. Expect to wear a warm layer during evening concerts in churches.

Acoustics. This festival is more concerned with authenticity than acoustical perfection. Some venues have idiosyncrasies or reverberations of the sort which are not found in modern purpose-built concert halls.

Concert times. Three of the venues are too small to accommodate all 200 participants and so these concerts are repeated. All participants are provided with a programme which ensures they can attend all the concerts and other events for which they have booked.

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

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The Seville Baroque Orchestra is one of the most significant early music ensembles in Spain today. Formed in 1995 by Barry Sargent and Ventura Rico, it has gone from strength to strength with a long list of renowned guest conductors including Harry Christophers, Christophe Coin, Sigiswald Kuijken and Monica Huggett. The ensemble has recorded several CDs and performs frequently at festivals throughout Spain, France, Italy, Germany and Switzerland.

Sunday 12th May Morning talks A further hour of talks in the Maestranza by Owen Rees and Gijs van Hensbergen.

Morning concert: The Baroque in Spain Orquesta Barroca de Sevilla Marta Almajano (soprano) Venue to be confirmed The fast-paced and passionate works of Andalusian Baroque composers Juan Francés de Iribarren and Jaime Torrens were much influenced by modern Italian thinking. This programme combines a selection of their cantatas with works by Domenico Scarlatti (arranged by Charles Avison) and Luigi Boccherini.

Both of these composers spent much of their lives in Spain (Scarlatti was four years in Seville), both in service to the Spanish court, and both were unsurprisingly influenced by the folk music of their adopted country.

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Marta Almajano trained in Zaragoza and Barcelona and has since performed in festivals and concert halls around the world.

She works regularly with Al Ayre Español – particularly on the revival of Baroque zarzuela – and also Europa Galante, Ensemble Baroque de Limoges and New York Baroque Collegium.

The afternoon is free with the chance to join one of the optional visits (see page 12).

Dinner is independent this evening, unless you opt for the extra meals package (see page 14).

Evening concert: A Requiem for Phillip II Contrapunctus Owen Rees (director) Catedral de Sevilla The elaborate celebration of funeral rites was a central element of Spanish life. Morales’ setting (Phillip II died in 1598) is a seminal work in the development of the tradition. Incorporating plainchant and polyphony, it displays a striking clarity and transparency of texture which paradoxically enhances the emotional charge.

Illustration: Cathedral, high altar, wood engraving after David Roberts c. 1850.

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Contrapunctus is Vocal Consort in Residence at the University of Oxford. Coupling powerful interpretations with pathbreaking scholarship, the choir presents music by the best known composers as well as unfamiliar masterpieces from Spain, Portugal, England, the Low Countries, and Germany, particularly from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The choir’s director, Owen Rees, is tutor of music at Queen’s college, Oxford, and one of our festival speakers.

Cristóbal de Morales was native to Seville and a chorister at Seville cathedral, making it an appropriate setting for his requiem mass for the funeral of King Phillip II.

Fit for the festival

Walking is the only viable way of getting around on this festival, from your hotel to concerts, lecture halls and restaurants. Even after the drive to Cádiz, you will need to walk from the coach to the venue.

The concerts are within easy walking distance of the hotels, the longest walks being 20 to 30 minutes. But there are hazards – narrow pavements or none at all on streets shared with cars and motorbikes, and uneven paving.

Participants need to be averagely fit and moderately nimble, able to manage everyday walking and stairclimbing without any difficulties. However, unlike our tours for small groups, there is no age limit as you can make your own way in your own time between places.

By volume the largest cathedral anywhere, when the chapter embarked on the construction of Seville cathedral in 1402 they proclaimed that they wanted ‘a building so magnificent in scale that posterity will say we were mad.’

Monday 13th May A day in Cádiz Day 4 of the festival is spent in the delightful Atlantic port town of Cádiz, two hours by coach from Seville. As well as attending a concert in the Oratorio de Santa Cueva, there is time to wander the gridplan of narrow streets, visit the cathedral or the former women’s hospital containing El Greco’s St Francis of Assisi.

Lunch is included for all participants.

Concert: Seven Last Words London Haydn Quartet Oratorio de Santa Cueva, Cádiz The requirement for seven successive penitential adagios presented Haydn with a major challenge, which the composer rose to magnificently. The choral work, which he considered to be one of his finest, was commissioned for the Good Friday service at the Oratorio de Santa Cueva in Cádiz in 1786. We recreate this experience with a performance of the version for string quartet, composed one year later. There is opportunity also to see the upper cupola decorated with three frescoes by Goya.

Above: Cadiz Cathedral, late-19th-century wood engraving from Picturesque Europe Vol.IV. Below: The London Haydn Quartet.

Since its formation in 2000, The London Haydn Quartet has become one of the most respected ensembles specialising in historically informed performance of the classical repertoire.

Playing with gut strings and classical bows, their passion for Haydn has led them to present many all-Haydn programmes at venues such as Wigmore Hall, the Concertgebouw and Carnegie Hall.

Drive back to Seville in the early evening. Dinner is independent, unless you opt for the extra meals package (see page 14).

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Tuesday 14th May Morning talks and concerts Morning talks by Richard Langham Smith and Xavier Bray are followed by two short concerts of Spanish music from the 19thand 20th-centuries, performed in two of the grand salones of the Hotel Alfonso XIII. The hotel was built in 1928 to accommodate the pretigious attendees of the Ibero-American Exhibtion in 1929. The Salón Real has emerald green walls and a coffered ceiling adorned with eleven crystal and bronze chandeliers, while the Salón Híspalis is decorated in a neo-classical style with gilt stucco, silk and linen walls and geometric marble floors.

Morning concerts: The Spirit of Andalucía Javier Perianes (piano) Hotel Alfonso XIII, Salón Real Carlos Bonell (guitar) Hotel Alfonso XIII, Salón Híspalis This morning’s concerts showcase the surge of Neo-Romantic nationalism, liberalism and interest in regional identity that occured in Spain, as elsewhere in Europe, in the late 19th century. The simultaneous development of a Spanish school of music was inspired both by a revival of interest in the Spanish Golden Age and by studies of folk music. Dances such as the jota, fandango and seguidilla entered the concert hall.

Manuel de Falla (1876–1946) was born in Cádiz and took great inspiration from Andalusian folk music and flamenco, although always employing them with discretion in his music. The programme for piano features his Serenata Andaluza, very much like Chopin in style, Four Spanish Pieces, containing impressionist influences and the Fantasica Baetica (Baetica being the name given to present-day Andalucía by the Romans).

The programme for guitar includes music by de Falla’s contemporaries, including Leyenda: Asturias and Serenata: Granada by Isaac Albéniz; Spanish Dance ‘Andaluza’ by Enrique Granados; Pequeña Sevillana by Joaquín Rodrigo and Fandanguillo by Joaquín Turina.

Javier Perianes is one of Spain’s most exciting new artists with a growing international reputation. He is Artist in Residence at the 2012 Granada Festival, the Teatro de la Maestranza in Seville and with the Seville Orchestra. In September 2011 he released a disc devoted to the piano music of Manuel de Falla, including a live recording of Nights in the Gardens of Spain with the BBC Symphony Orchestra under Josep Pons.

He will perform at the Royal Festival Hall with the London Philharmonic in February 2013.

The celebrated guitarist Carlos Bonell was born in London of Spanish parents and studied at the Royal College of Music, where he was later the youngest person ever to be made professor in 1972. His career includes TV, Film and CD recordings (he has made more than twenty albums), tours to over forty countries around the world, concertos with major orchestras and the creation of his own ensemble.

The afternoon is free with the chance to join one of the optional visits (see page 12).

Left: 17th-century copper engraving.

Top, left to right: Javier Perianes; Carlos Bonell; Ex Cathedra.

Right: Cathedral, copper engraving c. 1800.

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also covered the dome with polychromatic glazed tiles, a style typical in Andalucía. The 17th-century retable altarpiece was created by Cayetano da Costa.

Dinner for all participants follows the concert.

Wednesday 15th May

Coaches leave for Seville airport for the departure of the following London-bound flights: Option 1: depart Seville 10.05, arrive Madrid 11.10 (IB 2471).

Depart Madrid 12.40, arrive London Heathrow 14.05 (IB 3164).

Evening concert: New World Symphonies Ex Cathedra, Jeffrey Skidmore (director) Iglesia del Salvador

Option 2: depart Seville 13.45, arrive Madrid 14.50 (IB 2473).

Depart Madrid 16.30, arrive London Heathrow 17.50 (IB 3166).

The discovery of the Americas has been described as the greatest event in the history of the world. The exploits of Cortés in Mexico and Pizarro in Peru in the early sixteenth century are well documented but what is probably less well known is the spread of Christianity which accompanied the invasion. At many centres priests began by teaching the liturgy through plainchant and polyphony by composers such as Victoria and Morales from books sent from Spain. As a result, a staggering amount of vibrant music was to be produced in the two hundred years that followed, with evocative texts full of Spanish and indigenous imagery.

Option 3: depart Seville 13.45, arrive Madrid 14.50 (IB 2473).

Depart Madrid 16.30, arrive London Heathrow 17.50 (IB 3166).

This programme features Baroque music by composers native to the Americas (Tomas Pascual, Francisco Hernández), those that emigrated ( Juan Gutiérrez de Padilla, Hernando Franco) and those that influenced Latin American music (Tomas Luís de Victoria, Alonso Lobo).

Off-Beat Andalucía: drive back to Málaga for the afternoon flight, departing at 14.30, arriving at London Gatwick at 16.15 (BA 2715).

Option 4. No flights. You are welcome to join one of the above transfers to Seville airport.

And for those of you who are joining one of two tours that link to the festival: Art in Madrid: depart Seville 10.05, arrive Madrid 11.10 (IB 2471). Depart Madrid 12.40, arrive London Heathrow 14.05 (IB 3164).

Jeffrey Skidmore was eighteen when he founded Ex Cathedra in his home city of Birmingham. Now widely acknowledged as one of the finest ensembles in Britain, Ex Cathedra comprises a specialist chamber choir, a vocal consort, a period instrument orchestra and a thriving education programme.

Seville is a fitting backdrop for this New World programme: Columbus is buried in Seville Cathedral and the Casa de Contratación, based in Seville, controlled all taxes and duties associated with Spain’s colonial conquests and the Golden Age which followed. The venue is the magnificent Baroque church of Iglesia del Salvador, built between 1674 and 1712 on the site of a 9th-century mosque. The façade was designed

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Dr Xavier Bray. Art historian specialising in Spanish art and sculpture and Chief Curator of Dulwich Picture Gallery.

Former posts include Assistant Curator of 17th- and 18thcentury European paintings at the National Gallery, London, where he curated numerous exhibitions: El Greco, Caravaggio: the final years, Velázquez and The Sacred Made Real: Spanish Painting and Sculpture 1600–1700. He completed his PhD at Trinity College, Dublin.

Participants can choose to sign up to visits to some of the key monuments in Seville. Visits are led by Xavier Bray, Adam Hopkins or Gijs van Hensbergen.

The price includes admission costs and gratuities. Numbers are limited to 20.

Gijs van Hensbergen.

Art historian and author specialising in Spain and the USA. His books include Gaudí, In the Kitchens of Castile and Guernica and he has published in the Burlington Magazine and Wall Street Journal. He read languages at Utrecht University and Art History at the Courtauld, and undertook postgraduate studies in American art of the 1960s. He has worked in England, the USA and Spain as exhibitions organiser, TV researcher and critic and is currently working for prolonged periods of time in New York.

Adam Hopkins.

Journalist and author, now living in a mountain village in Spain. He studied at King’s College, Cambridge and has contributed extensively to national newspapers in Britain on Spanish culture and travel. His books include Spanish Journeys: a Portrait of Spain, Holland: its History, Paintings and People and Crete: its Past, Present and People. Together with his wife, Gaby Macphedran, he has devised many tours in Spain and Portugal.

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Professor Richard Langham Smith.

Writer and broadcaster with a particular interest in French, Spanish and Catalan music. His first interest was in Early Music as a choral conductor and harpsichordist. He is currently Research Professor at the Royal College of Music and was made a Chevalier de l’ordre des arts et des lettres for his reconstruction of an unpublished opera

by Debussy on the subject of the teenage Spanish warrior known as El Cid. Dr Owen Rees. Fellow and tutor in music at The Queen’s College, Oxford University, director of the college chapel choir and the professional ensemble Contrapunctus. He specialises in the music of Spain and Portugal from the fifteenth to the mid-seventeenth centuries. He has broadcast on BBC Radios 3 and 4 and released CD recordings on the Hyperion, Herald, Guild and Unicorn Kanchana labels to high critical acclaim. His published studies include work on the Spanish composers Cristóbal de Morales and Francisco Guerrero.

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To request a place, tick the relevant box on the booking form. As many of the visits run at the same time, you are unlikely to be able to join more than two or three. Places are assigned on a firstcome, first-served basis.

Art in Seville, 10th May only (for those arriving on 9th). Includes the Museo de Bellas Artes with an excellent collection of Spanish masters (Zurbarán, Velázquez, Murillo) and the Hospital de la Caridad, renowned for the series of paintings by Murillo, and also works by Valdés Leal.

Lunch is included. Led by Dr Xavier Bray. c. 10.00–16.30. Price £80.

Seville Cathedral. The largest Gothic church in the world. The Capilla Mayor, treasury and sanctuary are of particular interest. c. 1 hour 15 mins. Price £20.

Museo de Bellas Artes. The finest art gallery in Spain after the Prado, one of the largest collections of works from the Spanish Golden Age. c. 1 hour 30 mins.

Price £20.

El Real Alcázar. The fortified royal palace is one of Spain’s greatest buildings; built

by Moorish architects for Castilian kings, it consists of a sequence of apartments and magnificent reception rooms around courtyards and gardens. c. 1 hour 30 mins. £20.

Hospital de la Caridad. Seville’s most striking 17th-century building, with paintings by Murillo and Valdés Leal. c. 1 hour. Price £20.

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Hotels & prices Hotel accommodation for five or six nights is included in the price of the festival. There are five hotels to choose from.

The choice of hotel determines the price you pay. Apart from the standard of accommodation, the ingredients in the basic festival package are the same for everyone. See page 4 for details of what is included.

We have chosen a range of hotels with great care. For location, character, amenities, comfort, maintenance and service, within their respective price bands these are as good as Seville can offer.

All are in the historic centre and within walking distance of the festival events.

Four out of the five have restaurants, all have lifts and all have roof terraces or gardens. Free wireless internet access is available in the public areas of all the hotels.

That said, the hotel business is not an area in which Seville particularly excels.

Service is often indifferent, standards of maintenance sometimes disappointing (carpets in particular are rarely properly cared for) and among other characteristic idiosyncrasies which could be mentioned is the pervasive smell of drains. Rooms often have a low level of lighting, which is often the case in hot countries, and ceramic tiled floors are cold underfoot.

The deposit for the festival is £300 per person.

Price without flights: subtract £220.

Hotel Amadeus, 3-star A small, family-run hotel in two adjacent 18th-century houses, in a quiet street in the Barrio Santa Cruz. Décor in public areas follows a musical theme, but is neutral in the bedrooms. There is a roof terrace and sitting room from where you can order drinks. Rooms for two people sharing are superior doubles or twins.

Single travellers can choose between a standard double or a (larger) superior double.

Downsides: breakfast is continental; there is no restaurant. www.hotelamadeussevilla.com

Superior double/twin room for two people sharing: Arriving 10th May, £2,270 per person Arriving 9th May, £2,350 per person Standard double room for single occupancy: Arriving 10th May, £2,410 Arriving 9th May, £2,520 Superior double room for single occupancy: Arriving 10th May, £2,530 Arriving 9th May, £2,660

Independent or group travel?

If you are uneasy about travelling as part of a group, you can avoid the optional extras and participate in the festival merely by turning up to the concerts (we tell you where and when, and how to get there). The rest of the time is your own.

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Very well located close to the cathedral with a magnificent view of the Giralda from the roof terrace. The 42 bedrooms are spacious and have been recently renovated in a contemporary style.

Bathrooms have yet to be redecorated but are functional. The public areas include a restaurant with exposed Roman remains, a bar and a courtyard garden.

Downsides: it is at the simpler end of the 4-star category; service can seem to be indifferent. www.hotelhusalosseises.com

Double/twin room for two people sharing: Arriving 10th May, £2,480 per person Arriving 9th May, £2,560 per person Double room for single occupancy: Arriving 10th May, £2,620 Arriving 9th May, £2,730

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opportunity for social interaction you can have group dinners every evening, sign up for some art-historical walks and visits and take advantage of any assistance offered for getting to the venues.

For the independent traveller or a group tour? The answer is both. It’s up to you to choose the degree of independence you wish to maintain during the festival.

But if you prefer to have some guidance and assistance and

Hotel Husa Los Seises, 4-star

Though there will be up to 200 participants, you will frequently find yourself in much smaller units.

Participants are spread through five hotels, and numbers at each restaurant and on the optional walks and visits are limited. Special attention will be paid by festival staff to participants travelling on their own.

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Hotels & Prices Las Casas de la Judería, 4-star

The most Andalusian and charming of our selection, this hotel has been created from several contiguous 16th-century palaces in the Barrio Santa Cruz. It consists of a succession of open-air arcaded patios with tiles, ironwork, plants and fountains.

Bedroom furnishings and decoration are attractive with some antiques, rugs, prints and chintz upholstery. There is a roof terrace and restaurant.

Downsides: bedrooms vary in size, outlook and distance from reception, a few are eccentric, some have little natural light and plumbing can be noisy. www.casasypalacios.com

Hotel Vincci La Rábida, 4-star

A smart hotel located off the tourist trail and yet only 7 minutes walk from the cathedral. It is a member of a reliable Spanish group which reflects in its well-maintained and well-appointed bedrooms and good service. The décor is a combination of traditional and modern. There is a large atrium with galleries around, pink stucco lustro walls, a restaurant, bar and a roof terrace with excellent views.

Downsides: the residential location can feel a bit cut off from the bustle of the historic core. www.vinccihoteles.com

Hotel Alfonso XIII, 5-star Illustrious hotel built for the 1929 Expo (and fully renovated in 2012), with a reputation as one of the grand hotels of Europe. Decoration is exuberant and colourfully historicist – Castilian, Moorish and Andalusian – with silk wall hangings, carved woodwork, Mudéjar stucco, lustreware tiles, chandeliers, antiques. Public rooms are old-fashioned, opulent, spacious. Single rooms measure 22m² with a queen-sized bed, Deluxe rooms are 28m², Grand Deluxe rooms are 41m² with king-sized beds, Junior Suites are a minimum of 50m² with good views.

There are gardens, an outdoor pool, two restaurants and a tapas bar.

Downsides: it is on the periphery of the historic centre. www.starwoodhotels.com/luxury

Standard double/twin room for two people sharing: Arriving 10th May, £2,650 per person Arriving 9th May, £2,730 per person Superior double/twin room for two people sharing. This is a larger room: Arriving 10th May, £2,740 per person Arriving 9th May, £2,830 per person Standard double room for single occupancy: Arriving 10th May, £2,890 Arriving 9th May, £3,020

Double/twin room for two people sharing: Arriving 10th May, £2,740 per person Arriving 9th May, £2,830 per person Double room for single occupancy: Arriving 10th May, £3,060 Arriving 9th May, £3,210

Illustration below: from The Foreign Tour of Brown, Jones & Robinson, 1904.

Extra meals

There is the option to book two additional dinners on days 3 and 4.

This ensures good food and wine in selected restaurants in the company of other festival participants. The cost is £90 (two-course dinner, including wine, mineral water, coffee and gratuity). Tick the relevant box on the booking form.

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Deluxe double/twin room for two people sharing: Arriving 10th May, £3,320 per person Arriving 9th May, £3,520 per person Grand Deluxe double/twin room for two people sharing: Arriving 10th May, £3,590 per person Arriving 9th May, £3,820 per person Junior Suite, double/twin for two people sharing: Arriving 10th May, £4,620 per person Arriving 9th May, £5,060 per person Queen single room: Arriving 10th May, £3,860 Arriving 9th May, £4,170 Deluxe double room for single occupancy: Arriving 10th May, £4,050 Arriving 9th May, £4,390 w w w. m a r t i n r a n d a l l . c o m

Off-beat Andalucía 6–10 May 2013 (mz 561) 5 days • £1,180 Lecturer: Adam Hopkins Pre-festival tour

centre within Arab walls. Visit by arrangement the 15th-cent. church of San Juan Bautista which contains a great Gothic altarpiece

by Alejo Fernández (who is also responsible for the one in Seville Cathedral) and nine lesser-known Zurbaráns. Visit by tractor and trailer the Cortijo de Arenales, a private estate dedicated principally to the rearing of bulls.

Illustration: Osuna, portal of the Palacio del Marqués de la Gomera.

Lesser-known towns and villages with time to stop and stare.

Combines countryside and farms with architecture and art.

Led by Adam Hopkins, author of Spanish Journeys and one of our most experienced lecturers.

Nowhere in Europe remains undiscovered. Travel journalists, tourist boards, and, yes, even tour operators periodically claim to have identified an incidence of touristic virginity, but the reality is that travellers have now reached into every chink and crevice of the continent where there is anything of beauty or charm to see.

Just occasionally, however, it is possible to find wonderful places whose attractions are out of all proportion to the paltry number of visitors they receive. The small Andalusian towns on this tour are prime examples. The main base is Antequera and from here we penetrate the surrounding region with time to wander streets rich in small town atmosphere.

Wonderful though the places are, there is no point in pretending that they can muster the richness of art and architecture in, say, Seville.

True, there is one church which has nine Zurbaráns, another with five Riberas, and many sights which will give enormous pleasure, but the expectation is that the circumstance of going to towns with few other visitors should more than make up for any shortage of internationally renowned masterpieces.

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the ‘white towns’ of Andalucía are extraordinarily attractive. They are largely unspoilt and surprisingly well restored. Between the towns stretch rolling landscapes fringed with jagged hills, with fields of wheat and barley ‘that clothe the land and meet the sky’ or corduroy stripes of olive groves.

Day 5: Écija, Seville. The many church towers of Écija are visible from afar. Of the numerous Baroque palaces see Palacio de Peñaflor and Palacio del Marqués de Benameji, and visit the GothicMudéjar church of Santiago.

Continue to Seville, arriving at your chosen festival hotel c. 4.00pm. The festival begins this evening with the first concert and dinner.

Day 10, 15th May: drive to Málaga for the afternoon flight, arriving at London Gatwick at c. 4.15pm.

Itinerary

Practicalities

Day 1. Fly at c. 10.00am from London Gatwick to Málaga. Continue to the pretty town of Antequera where all four nights are spent. Introductory talk in the hotel before dinner.

Price: £1,180 (deposit £100). This needs to be added to the Festival price arriving on 10th May (see pages 13–14). It includes: private coach travel; accommodation; breakfasts, 2 lunches and 3 dinners, with wine, water, coffee; all admissions; all tips; all taxes; the services of the lecturer and tour manager. Single supplement £120 (double for sole use). Flights (with British Airways, London–Málaga– London, Boeing 737) are charged as part of the festival and therefore are not included in this tour price.

Day 2: Osuna, Antequera. Osuna is clustered on a hillside with limitless landscape beyond. Start at the 16th-century university and the spacious Collegiate Church, a Gothic-Renaissance hybrid whose artworks include five paintings by Ribera. See also the church and cloister of the neighbouring nunnery. Back in Antequera visit the Collegiate church of Santa María la Mayor with a handsome classical façade and the church of Nuestra Señora del Carmen whose Baroque altarpiece soars to thirteen metres.

Day 3: Priego de Córdoba. Drive through a rolling agricultural patchwork to hills clad in olive groves, and climb steadily into the limestone sierra. The Arab core of Priego de Córdoba, with its narrow curving alleys and cascading geraniums, stands on a high cliff. The octagonal sacristy of the church of La Asunción, richly decorated with stucco, is one of the Baroque treasures of Andalucía. Olive oil sampling with lunch.

Day 4: Marchena. Drive west to Marchena, a rarely visited market town with an extensive historic

Hotel. The modern (and recently renovated) 4-star Parador in Antequera, a 15-minute walk from the centre.

How strenuous? There is a lot of walking, some of it uphill. Average distance by coach per day: 104 miles.

Small group: 12–22 participants.

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Art in Madrid 6–10 May 2013 (mz 552) 5 days • £1,310 Lecturer: Gijs van Hensbergen Pre-festival tour

Day 5. Walk to the Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, one of the greatest modern art museums and home to Picasso’s Guernica plus works

by Miró, Dalí and Tàpies. Take an afternoon AVE (high-speed train) to Seville (duration: 2 hours 30 minutes) and check into your chosen festival hotel by c. 5.15pm.

The festival begins this evening with the first concert and dinner.

Two visits to the Prado plus the Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection and the Reina Sofía, home to Picasso’s Guernica.

Lesser-known places include the Sorolla Museum, Archaeological Museum and Goya frescoes at San Antonio de la Florida.

Day 10, 15th May. After the festival, fly from Seville via Madrid, arriving at Heathrow at c. 2.00pm.

Led by Spanish expert and art historian, Gijs van Hensbergen.

While the Museo del Prado alone might justify a visit to Madrid – and this tour has two sessions there – the city has other excellent collections which reinforce its reputation as one of the great art centres of Europe.

This city of Velázquez and Goya has been enormously enhanced over the years by the installation of the Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection and the Reina Sofía Museum.

Both these and the Prado have undergone major extension work under architects Jean Nouvel (Reina Sofía), Manuel Baquero and Francesc Plá (Thyssen) and Rafael Moneo (Prado). New exhibiting spaces, restaurants and lecture theatres lend even greater lustre to these world-class galleries.

Our stints at the ‘big three’ are interspersed with less-visited collections, many recently restored.

The great Spanish painters – including El Greco, Murillo, Velázquez, Goya, and Picasso – are of course represented on the tour, but the collecting mania of the Habsburgs and Bourbons and their subjects has resulted in a wide range of artistic riches which will surprise and delight. There is a large number of outstanding paintings by Titian and Rubens and the Prado has by far the largest holding of the bizarre creations of Hieronymus Bosch.

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Practicalities

Itinerary Day 1. Fly at c. 11.15am from London Heathrow to Madrid. Start with a first visit to the Prado Museum, which is among the world’s greatest art galleries; concentrating on the Spanish school. Settle into the hotel before dinner.

Day 2. The morning walk includes the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, home to works by Goya, Zurbarán, Ribera and Murillo, and the Museum of Decorative Arts, with an 18th-century tiled Valencian kitchen.

The afternoon is spent at the Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection, housed in the 18th-century Palacio de Villahermosa; one of the world’s largest private art collections until its purchase by the Spanish state in 1993.

Day 3. Begin at the Archaeological Museum, good on ancient Iberian civilization and Roman Spain (currently closed for renovation but due to re-open in early 2013).

Continue to the Lázaro Galdiano Museum, with works by El Greco, Goya and Murillo. The afternoon is free to allow for temporary exhibitions (details nearer the time) or a visit to the 18th-century Royal Palace.

Day 4. Travel by coach to the Sorolla Museum, in the charming house of the eponymous Impressionist painter. Continue to the chapel of San Antonio de la Florida, Goya’s burial place and home to his ceiling frescoes, and the arcaded, balconied Plaza Mayor, centrepiece of Habsburg town planning. In the afternoon there is a second visit to the Prado, this time primarily to see the Italian and Netherlandish schools.

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Price: £1,310 (deposit £150). This needs to be added to the Festival price for arriving on 10th May (see pages 13–14). Price includes: private coach travel; 1st-class rail travel between Madrid and Seville (AVE); accommodation as described below; breakfasts and 3 dinners with wine, water, coffee; all admissions; all tips; all taxes; the services of the lecturer. Single supplement £230 (double room for single occupancy). Flights (with Iberia, London to Madrid; Seville to London via Madrid, Airbus 320) are charged as part of the festival price and are therefore not included in the cost of this tour.

Hotel. A new hotel installed in an 18th-century building. Rooms are comfortable and well appointed; the decoration throughout is contemporary. Excellent breakfasts.

Located in the historic centre close to the Plaza Mayor and walking distance of the major museums.

Rated locally as 5-star but more comparable to a good 4-star.

How strenuous? There is lot of standing in galleries and a fair amount of walking. Average distance by coach per day: 5 miles.

Small group: 8–19 participants.

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Arrive in Seville on 9th May, depart on 15th:

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Option 1. 9th May: depart Heathrow 10.10, arrive Madrid 13.30. Depart Madrid 15.45, arrive Seville 16.55. 15th May: depart Seville 10.05, arrive Madrid 11.10. Depart Madrid 12.40, arrive Heathrow 14.05.

Option 2. 9th May: depart Heathrow 15.00, arrive Madrid 18.35. Depart Madrid 19.55 arrive Seville 21.00. 15th May: depart Seville 13.45, arrive Madrid 14.50. Depart Madrid 16.30, arrive Heathrow 17.50.

Arrive in Seville on 10th May, depart on 15th: Option 3. 10th May: depart Heathrow 10.10, arrive Madrid 13.30. Depart Madrid 15.45 arrive Seville 16.55. 15th May: depart Seville 13.45, arrive Madrid 14.50. Depart Madrid 16.30, arrive Heathrow 17.50.

Option 4, No flights: Tick here if you will make your own way to and from the festival (you are welcome to join any of the transfers from or to Seville airport).

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OPTIONAL VISITS. See page 12. Tick to book (walks are allocated on a first-come first-served basis): Traveller 1

Art in Seville (only available if you are arriving 9th May) Seville Cathedral Museo de Bellas Artes El Real Alcázar Hospital de la Caridad

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Booking Details Making a Booking 1. Provisional booking We recommend that you contact us first to ascertain that your preferred hotel and room type is still available. Then you can make a provisional booking which we will hold for one week (longer if necessary) pending receipt of your completed booking form and deposit.

2. Definite booking Fill in the booking form and send it to us with the deposit (£300 for the festival; more if taking a pre-festival tour). 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 the festival.

3. Our confirmation Upon receipt of your 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 of the festival will also be sent at this stage.

Passports and visas Participants must have passports, valid for at least six months beyond the date of the festival. No visas are required for Spain 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.

ABTOT. As a member of the Association of Bonded Travel Organisers Trust Limited (ABTOT), Martin Randall Travel has provided a bond to meet the requirements of the Package Travel, Package Holidays and Package Tours Regulations 1992.

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Our promises to you.

We aim to be fair, reasonable and sympathetic in all our dealings with clients, and to act always with integrity.

We will meet all our legal and regulatory responsibilities, often going beyond the minimum obligations.

We aim to provide full and accurate information about our tours and festivals. If there are changes, we will tell you promptly.

If something does go wrong, we will try to put it right. Our overriding aim is to ensure that every client is satisfied with our services.

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We ask that you read the information we send to you.

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Our contract with you From the time we receive your signed booking form and initial payment, a contract exists between you and Martin Randall Travel Ltd. Eligibility We reserve the right to refuse to accept a booking without necessarily giving a reason. It is essential to be able to cope with the walking and stair-climbing required to get to the concert venues. See ‘Fitness for the festival’. If for any stage, including the airport, you would like the use of a wheelchair, then this festival is unlikely to be suitable for you.

Insurance It is a requirement of booking that you have adequate holiday insurance. Cover for medical treatment, repatriation, loss of property and cancellation charges must be included. Insurance can be obtained from most insurance companies, banks, travel agencies and (in the UK) many retail outlets including Post Offices.

If you cancel If you have to cancel your participation in the festival, there would be a charge which varies according to the period of notice you give. Up to 57 days before departure the deposit only is forfeited. Thereafter a percentage of the total cost will be due: between 56 and 29 days: between 28 and 15 days: between 14 and 3 days (inclusive): within 48 hours:

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

If we cancel the festival We might decide to cancel the festival if at any time up to eight weeks before there were insufficient bookings for it to be viable. We would refund everything you had paid to us. We might also cancel if hostilities, civil unrest, natural disaster or other circumstances amounting to force majeure affect the region.

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ATOL. If you book this festival with flights included you are protected by the ATOL scheme because we hold an Air Travel Organiser’s Licence granted by the Civil Aviation Authority. In the event of our insolvency, the CAA will ensure that you are not stranded abroad and will arrange to refund any money you have paid to us for an advance booking.

In the event of our insolvency, protection is provided for non-flight packages commencing in and returning to the UK and other nonflight packages excluding pre-arranged travel to and from your destination.

In the above circumstances, if you have not yet travelled you may claim a refund, or if you have already travelled, you may claim repatriation to the starting point of your nonflight package.

The limits of our liabilities As principal, we accept responsibility for all ingredients of the festival and pre-festival tours, except those in which the principle of force majeure prevails. Our obligations and responsibilities are also limited where international conventions apply in respect of air, sea or rail carriers, including the Warsaw Convention and its various updates.

If we make changes Circumstances might arise which prevent us from operating the festival exactly as advertised. We would try to devise a satisfactory alternative, but if the change represents a significant loss to the festival we would offer compensation. If you decide to cancel because the alternative we offer is not acceptable we would give a full refund.

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This brochure was designed inhouse by Jo Murray. The text was written and edited by Martin Randall, Fiona Urquhart and Sophie Wright. Back cover illustration: engraving c. 1860 from The Comprehensive History of England Vol VI.

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Within Europe, India 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, smallgroup tours and large-group events.

Small-group tours, all accompanied by an expert lecturer, have 22 participants or fewer. There are now around two hundred a year in nearly forty countries.

Events for between 50 and 300 participants include our famous allinclusive music festivals, of which there have been about sixty since 1994, and chamber music and symposia weekends in the UK.

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