Lufthansa Festival of Baroque Music 2012

Lufthansa Festival of Baroque Music 2012 in association with Rolls-Royce plc

Contests, Competitions and the Harmony of Nations London | 18 May – 26 May St. John’s, Smith Square St. Matthew’s, Westminster Westminster Abbey www.lufthansafestival.org.uk

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Chairman

Karsten Benz

Artistic Director

Lindsay Kemp

Musical Director

Ivor Bolton

General Director

Gudrun Gorner

Corporate Consultant

Bernhard Jung

Manager

Lucy Bending

Cover photo: Marco Borggreve

Lufthansa Festival of Baroque Music 18 May – 26 May 2012

Programme Editor

Mark Pappenheim

Marketing

Nick Morrison

Public Relations

Victoria Bevan and Rosanna Chianta at Albion Media

Website

Alison Fox

Founders

Rita Zampese and Tess Knighton

www.lufthansafestival.org.uk info@lufthansafestival.org.uk Box Office: Tel. 020 7222 1061 Online booking: www.sjss.org.uk Friends booking opens 25 January 2012 General booking opens 1 February 2012 More than 91 million passengers a year put their trust in the services of the Lufthansa Group. They know that, when they fly with our airlines, they can expect the highest standards of quality, reliability and safety. Excellent customer service both in the air and on the ground helps to make their journey as smooth and enjoyable as possible.

This can only be achieved with partners who share the same core values. Our partnership with Rolls-Royce plc. convincingly represents such joint corporate citizenship: two companies committed to the highest levels of quality complementing each other in a top-flight cultural sponsorship.

It is our great pleasure, once again, jointly to offer you a series of concerts within our festival that hopefully enriches your life beyond the fascination of flying.

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Contests, Competitions and the Harmony of Nations

St. John’s, Smith Square St. Matthew’s, Westminster Westminster Abbey

The Lufthansa Festival of Baroque Music is one of the premier early music events in Europe, with an international reputation for its wide range of performances by soloists and ensembles from all over the world. Since its foundation in 1984 the Festival has maintained its name for the imaginative programming of little-known works alongside masterpieces of the Baroque.

‘Under the imaginative direction of Lindsay Kemp, the annual Lufthansa Festival of Baroque Music has always punched above its weight, and this year’s programme is no exception.’

The Independent 2011 ‘Over 27 years the Lufthansa Festival of Baroque Music has brought dozens of superb foreign ensembles to London, and still does.’

The Times 2011 ‘As a concert series it can rank with anything on offer at, say, the Proms, the glamorous international festivals or in our opera houses.’

Financial Times

Listen out for broadcasts from the Lufthansa Festival on BBC Radio 3.

Full details will be published in the Festival programme book.

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Contests, Competitions and the Harmony of Nations

London will be a special place in 2012 – no-one could miss the fact.

Friendly rivalry, meetings of different cultures and a generous spirit of international co-operation are going to be in the air thanks to the Olympics, but they are all things in which music also happens to have an excellent track-record. So this year’s Festival celebrates goodwill, gentle competition and the general harmony of nations in a programme reflecting the cross-currents and complementary strands of European Baroque music.

In our opening concert revered Catalan viol-player Jordi Savall brings his multi-national orchestra for a tour through the principal musical traditions of the 17th and 18th centuries, while two of the great stylistic unifiers of the period – Muffat and Couperin – are showcased in concerts by Harmonie Universelle and Musica ad Rhenum.

Bach’s dramatic re-enactment of the mythical contest between Phoebus and Pan is brought to us by the Dunedin Consort & Players, and the sporting life is cheered on in a colourful programme of English ballads from voice-and-fiddle duo Alva and in L’Olimpiade, one of Vivaldi’s finest operas, here receiving its UK premiere.

Real Baroque competitions are remembered in Elizabeth Wallfisch’s programme inspired by the meeting of violinists Locatelli and Leclair, in a recital focusing on Bach and Marchand by American organ star Kimberly Marshall, and in our final concert, in which the Early Opera Company brings together a pair of leading modern-day singers to revisit the battle for supremacy between two of Handel’s greatest operatic divas.

There are real 21st-century competition winners, too, in the shape of Ensemble Meridiana and our Friday late-night performers, ensemble sava¯ di, while for a look at the bigger picture, Harmony’s honorary role in the shaping of the universe is invoked when the Choir of Westminster Abbey performs Handel’s sumptuous Ode for St. Cecilia’s Day in its own magnificent home.

Everything to play for, then – I hope you can join us.

Lindsay Kemp, Artistic Director

Lindsay Kemp

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Friday 18 May Le Concert des Nations Jordi Savall

Saturday 19 May Alva · Vivien Ellis and Giles Lewin

La Serenissima Adrian Chandler · James Johnstone

Sunday 20 May Ensemble Meridiana

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Andrew Manze The Lufthansa Lecture

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Musica ad Rhenum Jed Wentz

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Tuesday 22 May Dunedin Consort & Players John Butt

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Wednesday 23 May Harmonie Universelle Florian Deuter

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Thursday 24 May The Choir of Westminster Abbey St. James’s Baroque James O’Donnell

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Friday 25 May Elizabeth Wallfisch, Jaap ter Linden and Albert-Jan Roelofs

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ensemble savā di

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Saturday 26 May Kimberly Marshall

Early Opera Company Christian Curnyn

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Festival Walk – Handel’s West End

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Festival Tour – Baroque Greenwich

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Ticket Discounts

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Friends

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Venues

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Programme details are correct at time of going to press.

The Lufthansa Festival of Baroque Music reserves the right to alter the artists or programme in unavoidable circumstances.

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Friday 18 May, 7.30pm St. John’s, Smith Square Le Concert des Nations Jordi Savall

viola da gamba & director

Le Concert des Nations

Jordi Savall

European Union Lully Biber Cabanilles Corelli Handel Avison

Boccherini

Le Bourgeois gentilhomme – suite Battalia Suite imperial Concerto grosso in D major, Op.6 No.4 Concerto grosso in G major, Op.6 No.1 Concerto No.9 in C major (after Domenico Scarlatti) La musica notturna delle strade di Madrid

One of the great stars of the early music world brings his own orchestra, a hand-picked line-up of leading players from many nations, for a concert which itself reflects the marvellous diversity and cross-fertilisations of European Baroque music. From Lully’s dance music for Molière’s Le Bourgeois gentilhomme to Biber’s riotously inventive Battalia to concertos and suites from Italy, Britain and Spain, it promises a colourful start to our celebration of international harmony.

‘Establishes a new gold standard for early music.’

Gramophone Tickets £40, £30, £20, £15 Friends drinks See p.22 for details

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Saturday 19 May, 4.30pm St. Matthew’s, Westminster Alva Vivien Ellis Giles Lewin

voice voice & fiddle

The Sporting Life Voice-and-fiddle duo Vivien Ellis and Giles Lewin make a welcome return to the Lufthansa Festival for another specially researched programme of ballads and popular tunes. For 2012 they take up a sporting theme, searching through the vast legacy of printed verse and music compilations, or ‘miscellanies’, to find long-lost songs offering insights into 18th-century attitudes to such timeless diversions as wrestling, boxing, cricket and horseracing, as well as forgotten sports such as stoolball, cudgels and quarterstaff.

‘A gutsy tour-de-force.’ Sing Out ‘Beautiful, vehement playing.’

Daily Telegraph

Tickets £15 (unreserved) Buy a ticket for both concerts on 19 May and receive a voucher for a free glass of wine

3.30pm, St. Matthew’s, Westminster Pre-concert talk – A Very British Exercise Dr. Abigail Williams, Lord White Fellow and Tutor in English at St. Peter’s College, Oxford, and Principal Investigator for the Digital Miscellanies Project, explores the background to Alva’s programme.

Free ticketed event

Alva

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Saturday 19 May, 7.00pm St. John’s, Smith Square Mhairi Lawson Sally Bruce-Payne Marie Elliot Anne Marie Gibbons Rachael Lloyd Stephen Gadd Jonathan Gunthorpe La Serenissima Adrian Chandler James Johnstone

Aminta Argene Licida Megacle Aristea Clistene Alcandro violin & director harpsichord & director

Vivaldi L’Olimpiade UK premiere (concert performance) Vivaldi’s operas are becoming ever more popular, so could we consider going through a festival of Baroque music in London in 2012 without presenting Vivaldi’s dazzling setting of one of the most frequently used opera librettos of the 18th century, a love tangle set against the background of the ancient Olympic games?

Clearly not, and who better to entrust with its UK premiere than Adrian Chandler’s award-winning ensemble, soaked as they are in the vivid and vibrant music of the Red Priest?

‘La Serenissima play with such finesse, such precision, and yet such rollicking good fun … It’s a winning combination.’

Classical Candour Tickets £35, £25, £18, £15 Buy a ticket for both concerts on 19 May and receive a voucher for a free glass of wine Friends drinks See p.22 for details

La Serenissima

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Adrian Chandler

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Sunday 20 May, 4.30pm St. John’s, Smith Square Ensemble Meridiana Dominique Tinguely recorder & bassoon Sarah Humphrys oboe & recorder Sabine Stoffer violin Tore Eketorp viola da gamba Christian Kjos harpsichord

Ensemble Meridiana

Europe Reconciled – Trios and Quadros by Telemann Consisting of instrumentalists from five different countries, Ensemble Meridiana has won first prizes at several major earlymusic competitions since its formation only five years ago. For us they journey into the eclectic musical mind of Georg Philipp Telemann, one of the 18th century’s most personable composers, whose delight was to take the national styles of Italy, France, Germany and Poland and mix them into a distinctively new and refined manner of his own. ‘… humorous, exuberant and original.’

Göttinger Tageblatt Tickets £15 (unreserved) Buy a ticket for both concerts on 20 May and receive a voucher for a free glass of wine

1.30pm Festival Walk – Handel’s West End See p.19 for details

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Sunday 20 May, 6.15pm St. John’s, Smith Square The Lufthansa Lecture Andrew Manze

Andrew Manze

The Pursuit of Excellence – A Call to Arms Andrew Manze is known to many for his captivating and daring performances on the Baroque violin, even though today he is a conductor working primarily with modern orchestras. In the fourth annual Lufthansa Lecture he examines the state of Baroque performance at a time when more and more ‘modern’ musicians are aware of historical issues and ever higher performing standards are demanded of them, and explores the relationships between iconoclasm and tradition, knowledge and intuition.

Tickets Free ticketed event

For previous Lufthansa Lectures by Sir Nicholas Kenyon, Robert Hollingworth and Laurence Dreyfus please visit the Festival website www.lufthansafestival.org.uk

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Sunday 20 May, 7.30pm St. John’s, Smith Square Andréanne Paquin Musica ad Rhenum Jed Wentz

soprano flute & director

Les nations – Couperin the Internationalist François Couperin François Couperin Collin de Blamont François Couperin François Couperin

La Françoise (Les nations) Douzième Concert (Les goûts-réünis) La toilette de Vénus Le Parnasse, ou L’apothéose de Corelli L’impériale (Les nations)

Although usually seen as one of the great representatives of the French Baroque, Couperin had a lifelong interest in combining the two great national styles of the Baroque, the French and the Italian. His efforts found clearest expression in the exquisite trio sonatas of Les nations and Les goûts-réünis, some of which are heard here in colourfully realised performances by Jed Wentz’s superb ensemble. There is also a rare chance to hear Collin de Blamont’s sensual and playful cantata depicting Venus’s conquest of Mars.

‘Music of days gone by that today goes straight in to the heart and feet, as if it were a pop concert.’

Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Tickets £28, £22, £15, £10 Buy a ticket for both concerts on 20 May and receive a voucher for a free glass of wine Friends drinks See p.22 for details

Musica ad Rhenum

Jed Wentz

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Tuesday 22 May, 7.30pm St. John’s, Smith Square Susan Hamilton Clare Wilkinson Thomas Hobbs Nicholas Mulroy Robert Davies Matthew Brook Dunedin Consort & Players John Butt

soprano mezzo-soprano tenor tenor baritone bass-baritone director

Dunedin Consort & Players

John Butt

The Contest of Phoebus and Pan Bach Bach

Bach

Brandenburg Concerto No.3 Cantata No.207 ‘Vereinigte Zwietracht der wechselnden Saiten’ Cantata No.201 ‘Geschwinde, ihr wirbelnden Winde’ (The Contest of Phoebus and Pan)

John Butt’s award-winning vocal-and-instrumental ensemble from Scotland – specialists in fresh performances of Bach’s music on an intimate scale – bring two of Bach’s vivacious but rarely heard secular dramatic cantatas to the Lufthansa Festival. BWV201 explores the clash of new and old aesthetics represented by the Ovidian figures of Phoebus and Pan, while in BWV207, which features familiar music from the Brandenburg Concertos, the figures of Industry, Honour and Happiness, no less, celebrate the installation of a Leipzig professor.

‘No performance could better justify small-scale Bach than this convincing marriage of scholarship and inspiration.’

BBC Music Magazine Tickets £35, £25, £18, £15 Friends drinks See p.22 for details

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Wednesday 23 May, 7.30pm St. John’s, Smith Square Harmonie Universelle Florian Deuter

violin & director

‘Far from the Tumult of Arms’ Muffat Lully Pasquini Corelli Schmelzer Bertali Muffat Muffat

Sonata No.2 in G minor (Armonico tributo) Chaconne from Phaëton Passacaglia in G major Sonata da camera a 3 in G major, Op.2 No.12 Harmonia a 5 in B flat major Sonata a 5 ‘Tausend Gülden’ Violin Sonata in D major Sonata No.5 in G major (Armonico tributo)

Florian Deuter’s Cologne-based string ensemble explores the gentle charms of one of the great unifying figures in Baroque music, Georg Muffat, who took it as his life’s work to encourage ‘the harmony of many nations and an amiable peace’ in music.

As well as sonatas from one of his most important collections, we hear music from some of the French, Italian and Austrian composers whose works influenced him.

‘Sensual and catchy … seductive freshness and elegance.’

Diapason Tickets £28, £22, £15, £10

Harmonie Universelle

Florian Deuter

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Thursday 24 May, 7.00pm Westminster Abbey Sophie Daneman soprano Thomas Hobbs tenor The Choir of Westminster Abbey St. James’s Baroque James O’Donnell

Sophie Daneman

The Choir of Westminster Abbey

From Harmony, from Heav’nly Harmony Bach Handel Handel

Motet: Singet dem Herrn ein neues Lied, BWV225 Motet: Silete venti Ode for St. Cecilia’s Day

The annual visit to Westminster Abbey, scene of many great national events, sees the building’s famous choir join St. James’s Baroque in one of Bach’s most joyous choral motets and in a richly varied and colourful St. Cecilia’s Day ode that harnesses the talents of two giants of English literature and music: Dryden and Handel. In between, Sophie Daneman sings Handel’s delectable solo motet, Silete venti.

‘This is cathedral choral singing at its finest and most inspiring.’

The Daily Telegraph Tickets £40*, £30, £25, £18, £15, £10 (no view) *(very limited availability)

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Friday 25 May, 7.00pm St. John’s, Smith Square Elizabeth Wallfisch Jaap ter Linden Albert-Jan Roelofs

violin cello & viola da gamba harpsichord

Le Grand Concours – France Plays Italy Uccellini Louis Couperin Stradella François Couperin

Geminiani Leclair Locatelli Locatelli

Sonata ottava in D minor Prélude non mésuré in A minor Sinfonia No.23 in B flat major Quatrième Concert in E minor (Concerts royaux) Cello Sonata in A minor, Op.5 No.6 Violin Sonata in B flat major, Op.5 No.4 Violin Sonata in D minor, Op.6 No.12 Capriccio ‘Prova del’ intonatione’

It is said that, when the two great violinists Jean-Marie Leclair the Elder and Pietro Antonio Locatelli played on the same bill at a concert in Kassel in 1728, the former played ‘like an angel’ and the latter ‘like a devil’. The occasion was also seen as a ‘battle’ between their respective national styles, however, and here Elizabeth Wallfisch and distinguished friends take the idea further in a celebration of cutting-edge chamber music from both sides of the Alps.

‘Professional Baroque music-making at the highest level …

A memorable concert given with huge commitment and assured expertise.’

Musical Pointers Tickets £28, £22, £15, £10 Buy a ticket for both concerts on 25 May and receive a voucher for a free glass of wine

Elizabeth Wallfisch and Albert-Jan Roelofs

Jaap ter Linden

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Friday 25 May, 9.30pm St. John’s, Smith Square ensemble savā di Kristı̄ ne Jaunalksne Ulrike Hofbauer Marie Bournisien

Lufthansa Late

soprano soprano harp

Zefiro torna – Miniature Operas from 17th-century Venice Since winning the Early Music Network International Young Artists’ Competition in York in 2003, ensemble sava¯ di have captivated audiences throughout Europe with their performances of 17th-century vocal music, to which their imaginative presentation style has brought new intensity. For their Lufthansa Festival debut they weave duets and arias by Monteverdi, Rovetta, Strozzi and others into an intimate miniature operatic world where emotions from lust to furious rage are distilled to their scorching essence.

‘Prepare to be moved and charmed.’

Early Music Today Tickets £15 (unreserved) Buy a ticket for both concerts on 25 May and receive a voucher for a free glass of wine

ensemble savā di

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Saturday 26 May, 4.30pm St. John’s, Smith Square Kimberly Marshall

organ

Kimberly Marshall

Bach v. The World The Klais organ at St. John’s, Smith Square, has only occasionally been heard at the Lufthansa Festival, so here is a chance to hear it put through its paces by a distinguished American concert organist, Kimberly Marshall. Her programme reflects the rivalries and friendships of Baroque organ music in works by J. S. Bach and Louis Marchand – the two were once lined up to play in competition until Marchand took flight.

‘A multi-faceted musician who pushed the organ to its limit with her virtuosic demands … A royal performance by one of our royalty!’

The American Organist Tickets £15 (unreserved) Please note that the seating for this concert is in the gallery.

Buy a ticket for both concerts on 26 May and receive a voucher for a free glass of wine

11.00am Festival Tour – Baroque Greenwich See p.20 for details 1.30pm Festival Walk – Handel’s West End See p.19 for details

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Saturday 26 May, 7.30pm St. John’s, Smith Square Rosemary Joshua Mhairi Lawson Early Opera Company Christian Curnyn

soprano soprano harpsichord & conductor

Handel and the Rival Queens Two feisty modern-day sopranos, aided by one of the risingstar conductors in the Baroque opera world, take on the roles of the great rival divas of Handel’s London operas of the 1720s, Francesca Cuzzoni and Faustina Bordoni. So notorious was their competition that a play was written about them, and even Handel’s best attempts to provide them with precisely equal parts could not prevent their animosity boiling over into a fight on stage!

This programme includes arias from Handel’s Ottone, Giulio Cesare, Admeto and Alessandro, and by Hasse and Porpora, as well as readings from contemporary sources.

‘The Early Opera Company is rapidly establishing itself as one of the best purveyors of Handel in this country. Christian Curnyn has as infallible a sense of tempo and musico-dramatic shape as the composer himself.’

The Times Tickets £35, £25, £18, £15 Buy a ticket for both concerts on 26 May and receive a voucher for a free glass of wine Friends drinks See p.22 for details

Rosemary Joshua

Christian Curnyn

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Mhairi Lawson

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Festival Walk – Handel’s West End

King’s Theatre, Haymarket

Handel House Museum

Handel made London his home from 1712 until his death in 1759, a period during which the West End became the fashionable enclave it remains to this day.

Our Festival Walk, led by a Blue Badge Guide, will begin in Haymarket at the site of the composer’s early operatic triumphs and wend its way though St. James’s and Mayfair to his home in Brook Street, which we shall visit.

The walk and tour of Handel House Museum will take approximately 100 minutes.

Sunday 20 May, 1.30pm Saturday 26 May, 1.30pm Walks begin at the entrance to Her Majesty’s Theatre, Haymarket, SW1Y 4QL. The nearest underground station to the theatre is Piccadilly Circus.

Tickets: £12 from St. John’s, Smith Square Box Office (see booking form for details). The ticket price includes entrance to Handel House Museum.

Please note: tickets cannot be bought on the day.

Please bring your ticket and hand it in to the guide.

Maximum number per walk: 25

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Festival Tour – Baroque Greenwich

Queen’s House

The Painted Hall, Greenwich

Our Festival Tour visits a World Heritage Site described by UNESCO as the ‘finest and most dramatically sited architectural and landscape ensemble in the British Isles’. Greenwich Park features the work of, among others, three great Englishmen: architects Inigo Jones and Sir Christopher Wren, and painter Sir James Thornhill.

Starting from Greenwich Pier, the tour, led by a Blue Badge Guide, will include Inigo Jones’s exquisite Queen’s House, the grand design of Sir Christopher Wren’s Royal Hospital for Seamen, and Sir James Thornhill’s majestic Painted Hall within the Hospital.

The tour will take approximately 100 minutes.

Saturday 26 May, 11.00am The tour begins by the statue of Sir Walter Raleigh at the entrance to ‘Discover Greenwich’, close to Greenwich Pier, SE10 9HT. Tickets: £12 from St. John’s, Smith Square Box Office (see booking form for details). The ticket price includes entrance to the Painted Hall.

Please note: tickets cannot be bought on the day.

Please bring your ticket and hand it in to the guide.

Maximum number: 50 The most enjoyable way to travel to Greenwich from Westminster is by boat, so we recommend taking the Thames Clipper, whose regular service from Embankment Pier to Greenwich Pier takes 27 minutes. Thames Clippers are part of Transport for London and are eligible for Oyster Card users. Timetables and fare information can be obtained at www.tfl.gov.uk/river. Greenwich Pier can also be reached easily by foot from DLR Cutty Sark and Greenwich Overground station.

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Lufthansa Festival of Baroque Music Ticket Discounts

Friends of the Lufthansa Festival Buy top- or second-price tickets for 5 or more concerts in one booking and you can become a Friend of the Festival enjoying a 20% discount and other benefits. For details, see pages 22– 23.

Multiple-concert discount Buy tickets at any price for 4 or more concerts in one booking and receive 15% off the full price.

Three-concert discount Buy tickets at any price for 3 concerts in one booking and receive 10% off the full price.

All other discounts 10% off the ticket price for: • groups of 10 or more • registered disabled and companion • visually impaired • students • children (under 17) • registered unemployed • Friends of St. John’s, Smith Square • Friends of St. Matthew’s, Westminster • Westminster Rescard holders

Notes • Discounts are not available online except the 10% Friends of St. John’s, Smith Square discount.

• Discounts cannot be combined.

• The Festival Walk and Festival Tour do not qualify for discounts.

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Lufthansa Festival of Baroque Music Friends of the Lufthansa Festival

Friends of the Lufthansa Festival enjoy • priority booking • 20% off ticket prices • complimentary post-concert drinks with artists after evening concerts on 18, 19, 20, 22 and 26 May • a complimentary festival programme; those who join before 30 March will also be credited on the Friends page in the programme • 2 tickets to a by-invitation concert with the European Union Baroque Orchestra on ‘Europe Day’, Wednesday 9 May, at St. John’s, Smith Square

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Lufthansa Festival of Baroque Music Friends of the Lufthansa Festival

To become a Friend • Simply buy top- or second-price tickets for 5 or more concerts in one booking.

It’s easy to join •

Book by post or telephone 020 7222 1061 any time from Wednesday 25 January – a week before general booking opens – making it clear that you wish to become a Festival Friend.

• You will then receive a 20% discount on concert tickets and be sent a Friends membership card.

Notes • Your complimentary festival programme and post-concert drinks will be available on production of your Friends membership card.

One Festival programme per Friend.

• Ticket purchases subsequent to your initial booking will also enjoy a 20% reduction – simply confirm that you are a Friend of the Lufthansa Festival when making your telephone booking.

• The Festival Walk and Festival Tour do not qualify as concerts for the purposes of becoming a Friend and are not eligible for discounts.

• Membership of the Friends lasts for one year – re-registration required for the 2013 festival.

• It is not possible to join the Festival Friends online.

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24 St. John’s, Smith Square, is situated not far from Westminster Abbey and the Houses of Parliament, off Millbank, and only a short walk from Westminster tube station and Parliament Square. St. Matthew’s is located within 5 minutes’ walk of St. John’s, Smith Square at 20 Great Peter Street.

Transport Tube: Westminster (District, Circle and Jubilee lines), St. James’s Park (District and Circle lines), Victoria (Victoria, District and Circle lines) or Pimlico (Victoria line) Buses: 3 & 87 to Millbank, 88 to Marsham Street and 507 & C10 to Horseferry Road for St. John’s and St. Matthew’s; 11, 24, 148 and 211 for Westminster Abbey National Rail: Victoria, Waterloo and Charing Cross

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Car: All venues are within the congestion charging zone. In the streets around St. John’s and St. Matthew’s parking meters and Residents parking are in operation during the day (Monday– Saturday) until 6.30pm. In the evenings and on Sundays there is usually space to park locally.

There is NCP parking in Horseferry Road, between Medway Street and Chadwick Street. In the area around Westminster Abbey there is nowhere easy to park.

Smith Square, Bar & Restaurant in the Crypt at St. John’s Open from 5.30pm on concert evenings (one and a half hours before the concert on Saturdays and Sundays) for buffet and à la carte dining, a light supper menu and licensed refreshments.

Interval drinks and post-concert suppers may be ordered at the bar before the start of the concert.

Lunchtime: open on weekdays 12.00– 2.45pm Tel: 020 7222 2779 | stjohns@leafi.co.uk

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