Festival guide 2016 by Carl Kill

FESTIVAL

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2016

FESTIVAL

GUIDE

2016 COMPILED AND WRITTEN BY PAUL RILEY

Let summer begin…

HANS JÖRG MICHEL, JAMES BELLORINI, ROBIN BELL, MARCO BORGGREVE

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FOR FESTIVAL DIRECTORS, assembling a world-class festival is about creating chemistry, getting musicians to tailor their programmes specifically for their venues and, crucially, for their audiences. But the magic happens when those audiences believe that the artists they’re hearing are performing just for them, and when the artists feel they’re simply playing to their friends. That can take years to pull off, as the musicians return year after year and slowly become acquainted with the building and the local clientele. That’s why small but established festivals have their unique, intimate ambience – impossible to recreate at any other time of the year. I do hope you enjoy our celebration of the finest festivals around the UK and that you find time to visit a few this year. Oliver Condy, editor

Contents 46 LONDON Including Spitalfields, London Festival of Baroque Music, Principal Sound, Opera Holland Park, Wimbledon Music Festival, Proms at St Jude’s, City of London Festival 52 SOUTH Including Brighton, Cheltenham, Three Choirs Festival, Bath, English Music Festival, St Endellion, Dartington International Summer School, Newbury Spring Festival 58 EAST Including Aldeburgh, Norfolk and Norwich, King’s Lynn, Roman River Festival 64 SUMMER OPERA Including Glyndebourne, Garsington, Grange Park, Iford Arts 68 MIDLANDS, NORTH & WALES Including Buxton, York Early Music, Vale of Glamorgan, Gregynog, Music in the Round, Ryedale, Presteigne, Swaledale, Lichfield 76 SCOTLAND & N IRELAND Including Edinburgh, East Neuk, Lammermuir 84 EUROPE Including Salzburg, Ravenna, Bergen, Budapest, Prague, West Cork, Aix >

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Piano Quintet 13 June The Schubert Ensemble were the first people to give me a professional commission back in 2000 and they’ve asked me to write this Piano Quintet. It’s a single-movement work based on Ted Hughes’s poetry, and it’s called The Whole Earth Dances. There’s a walk I do every day from my house, and I felt inspired as I noticed the changes of the landscape each day. Hughes’s poetry directly connects with the English landscape – he talks about thistles as ‘Icelandic frost thrust up / From the underground stain of a decayed Viking.’

east side stories: Christian Curnyn and the Early Opera Company in Spitalfields Church

AS SPITALFIELDS TURNS 40, there’s no danger of it slipping into a sedate middle age. Bursting with curiosity, proud of its edginess, it’s a festival that’s long set old and new cheek by jowl. And it’s been shaped by a string of composer-artistic-directors including Jonathan Dove, Judith Weir and Diana Burrell. Indeed ‘festival’ is a misnomer. In reality there are two: one winter, one summer, and a yearlong programme of creative community engagement to keep the pot at a rolling boil. Not surprisingly, June’s jamboree is marking the big 4-0 in style. And just when you thought Spitalfields couldn’t top its cosy Georgian drawing rooms or über-cool Village Underground for intriguing new venues, along come Barts Pathology Museum, late evening

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5 SPITALFIELDS HIGHLIGHTS n 6 & 7 June Anna Meredith Anno; Scottish Ensemble/Jonathan Morton n 8 June Rossi Oratorio per al Settimana Santa; Early Opera Company/Curnyn n 9 June Vivaldi La Senna festeggiante; The English Concert/ Harry Bicket (pictured right) n 11 June Iain Bell London’s Fatal Fire (world premiere), Berio Cries of London; New London Chamber Choir/Matthew Hamilton n 15 June Gavin Bryars Jesus’ Blood Never Failed Me Yet; Multi-Story Orchestra/Christopher Stark

Bryars in the Museum of Childhood, and a collision of choral-meets-circus in Tower Hamlets’s Victorian Cemetery Park. The Odyssean Ensemble’s Byrd inaugurates a strong early music strand including Rossi from Christian Curnyn’s Early Opera Company, The Sixteen, and the English Concert with Vivaldi’s La Senna festeggiante. But old and new also overlap: Vivaldi’s Four Seasons is the starting point for Anna Meredith’s Anno, an immersive journey through the passing of a year. And Peter Wiegold directs Club Inégales in a thoroughgoing makeover of Purcell’s King Arthur in the shabby-chic of Wilton’s Music Hall. The Schubert Ensemble, meantime, plays it straight with a new Piano Quintet from Cheryl Frances-Hoad, and Iain Bell turns the choral heat up under the 350th anniversary of the Great Fire. WHEN: 2-26 June WHERE: Spitalfields, London TEL: +44 (0)20 7377 1362 WEB: spitalfieldsmusic.org.uk

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PRINCIPAL SOUND In what would have been Morton Feldman’s 90th year, Principal Sound (the title of his only organ work) celebrates the US maverick’s legacy. New works from Jürg Frey and Christian Mason, plus classics by Cage and Webern, are woven into a festival culminating in Feldman’s four-hour tribute to painter Philip Guston.

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n 19 April The Carolan Celebration; Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin (piano) n 21 April Schubert, Field, Barry; Ailish Tynan (sop), Ann Murray (mezzo), RTÉ ConTempo Quartet, Royal Irish Academy of Music & Royal Academy of Music choruses n 24 April Handel Eternal Source of Light Divine; Ensemble Marsyas/Peter Whelan

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WHEN: 1-4 April WHERE: St John’s Smith Square TEL: +44 (0)20 7222 1061 WEB: www.sjss.org.uk HIGHLIGHTS:

n 1 April Feldman Piano & String Quartet; The Smith Quartet, John Tilbury (piano) n 2 April Feldman, Frey, Clementi, Miller; James McVinnie (organ), Exaudi/James Weeks n 4 April Feldman For Philip Guston; Jenni Hogan (flutes), Siwan Rhys (piano, celesta), George Barton (percussion)

LONDON FESTIVAL OF BAROQUE MUSIC FESTIVAL OF IRISH CULTURE Irish eyes will surely be smiling as Wigmore Hall marks the centenary of the Easter Rising with a five-day festival that features new piano transcriptions of Carolan’s harp music, celebrates the 90th birthday of Queen Elizabeth with

a Dublin twist, and includes the premiere of a piece by Gerald Barry in an all-star gala including soprano Ailish Tynan and mezzo Dame Ann Murray. WHEN: 19-24 April WHERE: Wigmore Hall, London TEL: +44 (0)20 7935 2141 WEB: www.wigmore-hall.org.uk

London’s Baroque celebration turns its attention to the relationship between music and language, a hot topic in 17th-century Italy. There are ‘Words with Purcell’ twice over, the Mantuan ghetto is brought to life by vocal quintet Profeti della Quinta, and swashbuckling invades SW1 as swords clash in Monteverdi’s Il combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda. >

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WHEN: 13-19 May WHERE: Westminster TEL: +44 (0)20 7222 1061 WEB: www.lfbm.org.uk HIGHLIGHTS:

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n 14 May Monteverdi Il combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda; Monteverdi String Band/Oliver Webber n 16 May Haleluyáh! Rossi psalm settings; Profeti della Quinta n 19 May Lully, Vivaldi, Handel, Wassenaer; European Union Baroque Orchestra/Podger

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Nearly two decades after it first championed Mascagni’s Iris, Opera Holland Park returns to the piece at the start of a season rich in Italian repertoire (Puccini’s La bohème and Rossini’s La Cenerentola). Alongside an excursion into ballet, and the Viennese charm of Strauss’s Die Fledermaus, aces are high for Tchaikovsky’s Queen of Spades. WHEN: 7 June – 13 August WHERE: Holland Park, London TEL: +44 (0)300 999 1000 WEB: operahollandpark.co.uk HIGHLIGHTS:

PROMS AT ST JUDE’S The landmark spire of Edward Lutyens’s St Jude-on-the-Hill has been guiding prommers to Hampstead Garden Suburb for nearly a quarter of a century. Performed by Nevill Holt Opera, Donizetti’s L’elisir d’amore is just the tonic as curtain-up to a series that lives the ‘American Dream’– courtesy of Counterpoise – and hits the high notes with the Tallis Scholars’ Allegri Miserere.

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n 7-18 June Mascagni Iris; Anne Sophie Duprels (Iris) etc, City of London Sinfonia/Stuart Stafford n 14-30 July Rossini La Cenerentola; Victoria Simmonds (Angelina), City of London Sinfonia/Dane Lam n 2-13 August Tchaikovsky Queen of Spades; Peter Wedd (Herman), City of London Sinfonia/Robinson

WHEN: 25 June – 3 July WHERE: St Jude’s, Hampstead TEL: +44 (0)20 3322 8123 WEB: promsatstjudes.org.uk HIGHLIGHTS:

n 25 June Donizetti L’elisir

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d’amore; Nevill Holt Opera/ Nicholas Chalmers n 28 June Sonatas by Beethoven, Ravel, Debussy and Brahms; Hyeyoon Park (violin), Benjamin Grosvenor (piano) n 1 July Tallis, Byrd, Tavener, Pärt; The Tallis Scholars/Peter Phillips

early summer: Pinchas Zukerman at Cadogan Hall

London Handel Festival

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8 March – 11 April A rare outing for the Handel oratorio Alexander Balus and a detour to Edgware saluting the Chandos 300 anniversary are among Handelian head-turners. +44 (0)1460 54660 www.london-handel-festival.com

6-10 July Voices are raised in a Paddington-based celebration of all things vocal that includes the Gabrieli Consort, a Workplace Choirs Night, and concluding Elgar and Vaughan Williams. www.voicesoflondonfestival.com

Westminster Cathedral Grand Organ Festival 20 April – 23 November Organists from Norway, Barcelona and Paris’s Notre Dame lend an international flavour as the Cathedral’s ‘Grand Organ’ is put through its paces. +44 (0)20 7798 9055 westminstercathedral.org.uk

City of London Festival 20 June – 8 July Shakespeare’s connections with the Square Mile are teased out as the City of London Festival fills the squares, churches and livery halls of EC4 with music and more. +44 (0)20 7638 8891 www.colf.org

Pinchas Zukerman Festival 28 June – 5 July Following their recent US tour, violinist/conductor Pinchas Zukerman and the RPO reunite for another early summer festival at Cadogan Hall embracing chamber music, Mozart concertos and Beethoven symphonies. +44 (0)20 7730 4500 www.cadoganhall.com

BBC Proms 15 July – 10 September Sir Henry Wood could never have envisaged a Concerto for Turntables and Orchestra (by Prokofiev’s grandson, Gabriel) gracing the festival he launched 121 years ago; but as the Proms return, decks will be spun, and records doubtless broken! 0845 401 5034 (UK only) www.bbc.co.uk/proms

Hampstead Arts Festival 6-20 November From Hampstead Parish Church to St John’s Downshire Hill, some of NW3’s finest acoustics are at the service of pianist Stephen Hough and the Arditti String Quartet among others. +44 (0)7990 743188 www.hampsteadartsfestival.com

Greenwich Early Music Festival 10-12 November The world’s largest early music fair with festival attached decamps to Blackheath while restoration work progresses at its Royal Naval College home. +44 (0)1274 288100 www.earlymusicshop.com

Newly opened a decade ago, Kings Place declared its ambition with a three-day festival of over 100 events showcasing residents such as the OAE and London Sinfonietta. The ambition remains undimmed, and alongside York Place regulars, Cellophony anticipates 2017’s ‘Cello Unwrapped’ series, and folk singer Eliza Carthy explores ‘Songs of Separation’. WHEN: 9-11 September WHERE: Kings Place, King’s Cross TEL: +44 (0)20 7520 1490 WEB: www.kingsplace.co.uk HIGHLIGHTS:

n 9 Sept Beethoven Grosse Fuge, Shostakovich Quartet No. 3; Brodsky Quartet n 10 Sept JS Bach (arr. Sitkovetsky); Artea String Trio n 11 Sept Tudor Tots: Music from Shakespeare’s Time; OAE

WIMBLEDON MUSIC FESTIVAL Season’s greetings come early to Wimbledon as The Christmas Oratorio crowns a Bach strand including the cello suites played by Raphael Wallfisch, and violinist Christian Tetzlaff’s solo Bach spliced with Bartók. Music inspired by folk takes pride of place, from David Fanshawe’s African Sanctus to a pairing of Copland’s Appalachian Spring and Delius’s Brigg Fair. WHEN: 12-27 November WHERE: Wimbledon, London TEL: +44 (0)20 8946 5078

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n 15 Nov Mahler Songs of a Wayfarer, Schumann Dichterliebe; Christoph Prégardien (tenor), Sholto Kynoch (piano) n 23 Nov Solo Bach and Bartók; Christian Tetzlaff (violin) n 27 Nov Mahler (arr. Schoenberg) Das Lied von der Erde, Copland Appalachian Spring; City of London Sinfonia/Michael Collins

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Purcell’s Dido & Aeneas 8 May ‘Performing Dido and Aeneas at the Brighton Festival is going to be wonderful, as we’re going to have the creative freedom to project a lot of the action and emotion through dance – we have a wonderful choreographer called Zack Winokur working with us. Aside from the music, the opera was very successful in its day, as it played on two popular themes at the time – forbidden love and melancholy. We’ve got an added interest to the relationship by casting a Dido, Ann Murray, who is of an older generation than Aeneas, sung by Benjamin Appl.’

HALF A CENTURY after introducing itself with Laurence Olivier, Yehudi Menuhin and the UK’s first exhibition of Concrete Poetry, Brighton Festival shows no sign of letting maturity interfere with its desire to provoke. Where else would you find the Shakespeare anniversary commemorated with ‘The Complete Deaths’, a gleeful re-enactment of every onstage death to be found across the Bard’s output? Keeping the festival on its toes, Brighton likes to appoint a guest director each year, and, following in the footsteps of Aung San Suu Kyi and Brian Eno among others, the multifaceted Laurie Anderson takes the reins for what is set to be the mother of all 50th birthday parties. ‘Home and place’ is her chosen theme, and among the special commissions Ed Hughes’s Brighton: Symphony of a City takes the city’s

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5 BRIGHTON HIGHLIGHTS n 7 May Mozart Piano Concerto in D minor, K466, Bruckner Symphony No. 3; Leif Ove Andsnes (piano), London Symphony Orchestra/Daniel Harding n 8 May Purcell Dido and Aeneas; Ann Murray (Dido), La Nuova Musica/ David Bates n 11 May Ed Hughes Brighton: Symphony of a City; Lizzie Thynne (film), Orchestra of Sound and Light/Ed Hughes n 15 May Schubert Rosamunde Quartet, Webern, Dvoπák; Takács Quartet n 22 May Elgar The Dream of Gerontius; Alice Coote (mezzo-soprano), Robert Murray (tenor), City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra/Edward Gardner

pulse, charting a ‘day in the life of’ bringing together live music and film including archive footage. Violinist Kala Ramnath and the Philharmonia evoke the world of the Raj through the eyes of a wounded serviceman convalescing in Brighton, and baritone Christopher Maltman also has the First World War in mind with a timely song recital ‘From Severn To Somme’. Indeed vocal music is particularly well served this year. Vox Luminis travels back to the Court of Elizabeth I; the Marian Consort tangles with Gesualdo; the Festival Chorus contemplates the afterlife as Edward Gardner conducts Elgar’s The Dream of Gerontius; and mezzo-soprano Ann Murray assumes the mantle of Purcell’s ill-starred Queen of Carthage for La Nuova Musica’s Dido and Aeneas. Away from the bustle, at nearby Glyndebourne, the Takács Quartet offers consoling Schubert and Dvoπák. WHEN: 7-29 May WHERE: Brighton, Sussex TEL: +44 (0)1273 709709 WEB: www.brightonfestival.org

South BATH Over 2,000 musicians performing in 48 venues on opening night turn Georgian Bath into the ultimate party city. Highlights include a late Schubert strand featuring the three last piano sonatas from Richard Goode, and artist-in-residence Philip Higham playing all of Bach’s cello suites.

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WHEN: 20-29 May WHERE: Bath TEL: +44 (0)1225 463362 WEB: www.bathmusicfest.org.uk HIGHLIGHTS:

n 23 May Schubert Piano Sonatas D958, 959, 960; Richard Goode (piano) n 26 May Motets by Brahms and Bruckner; Tenebrae/Nigel Short n 27 May Sibelius Violin Concerto, Elgar Symphony No. 2; Valeriy Sokolov (violin), Philharmonia/Edward Gardner

ENGLISH MUSIC FESTIVAL The English Music Festival has been banging the drum on behalf

Orchestra/Martin Yates n 29 May Shakespeare songs by Purcell, Tippett, Britten, Ireland and Quilter; Richard Edgar-Wilson (tenor), David Owen Norris (piano) n 30 May Vaughan Williams Serenade to Music, Paul Carr Violin Concerto (world premiere), Walton Music from Henry V; Rupert Marshall-Luck (violin), Bath Philharmonia/Thornton

CHELTENHAM early risers: Norwegian group Barokksolistene

of English music for a decade now and conjures up no fewer than three world premieres on the opening night of a celebratory tenth edition. This year, it remembers the Butterworth centenary, and is ‘on song’ for Shakespeare 400 with tenor Richard Edgar-Wilson and pianist David Owen Norris.

WHEN: 27-30 May WHERE: Dorchester Abbey,

Dorchester-on-Thames TEL: +44 (0)1535 272054 WEB: englishmusicfestival.org.uk HIGHLIGHTS:

n 27 May David Matthews Norfolk March (world premiere), Vaughan Williams The Fat Knight (world premiere); BBC Concert

It helps to be a night owl at Cheltenham this year. Erik Satie’s 150th birthday is roundly celebrated; and as well as nine Satie-esque ‘Keyboard Inventions’ events, the 840 repetitions of his piano Vexations receive an all-night airing (see p18). Over 20 world premieres are in prospect, while Barokksolistene’s Alehouse Sessions sound positively intoxicating. WHEN: 1-17 July WHERE: Cheltenham TEL: 0844 880 8094 (UK only)

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n 6 July Elgar In the South, Korngold Violin Concerto, Rachmaninov Symphony No. 3; Nicola Benedetti (violin), Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra/Vasily Petrenko n 10 July Handel Music for the Royal Fireworks, JS Bach, Vivaldi, Corelli; Avi Avital (mandolin), Barokksolistene/Bjarte Eike n 16 July Mendelssohn Octet; Armida Quartet, Quatuor Van Kuijk

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n 30 July & 1 August Berlioz L’enfance du Christ; Frances Bourne (mezzo-soprano), Mark Padmore (tenor), Festival Chorus & Orchestra/Martyn Brabbins n 3 & 5 August Britten Gloriana; Susan Bullock (Elizabeth I), Festival Chorus & Orchestra/ Martyn Brabbins n 4 August Britten Our Hunting Fathers, Elgar Enigma Variations; Mark Padmore (tenor), Festival Chorus & Orchestra/Ryan Wigglesworth

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THREE CHOIRS FESTIVAL The Three Choirs can afford to take the long view – it did, after all, celebrate its 300th birthday last year! As the moveable feast relocates to Gloucester, the 800th anniversary of the coronation of Henry III in Gloucester Abbey is marked by Stile Antico and Conductus, while Mahler’s Symphony of a Thousand crowns choral big hitters by Elgar, Berlioz, Mendelssohn and Orff. WHEN: 23-30 July WHERE: Gloucester TEL: 0845 652 1823 (UK only) WEB: www.3choirs.org HIGHLIGHTS:

n 25 July Josquin, Dufay and Lassus sung by Stile Antico n 27 July Berlioz Grande Messe des morts; Festival Chorus, Three Cathedral Choirs, Philharmonia/ Edward Gardner n 30 July Mahler Symphony No. 8; Festival Chorus, Three Cathedral Choirs, Three Choirs Festival Youth Choir, Philharmonia/Adrian Partington

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ST ENDELLION FESTIVAL From his coronation opera Gloriana to Our Hunting Fathers, St Endellion is backing Britten this summer – with festival artistic director tenor Mark Padmore on the scent of the orchestral songcycle. Berlioz’s L’enfance du Christ is shared with Truro Cathedral, but the Collegiate Church of St Endelienta keeps Handel’s Dixit Dominus all to itself. WHEN: 26 July – 5 August WHERE: St Endellion, Cornwall

TEL: +44 (0)1208 880298 WEB: endellionfestivals.org.uk HIGHLIGHTS:

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7-21 May With Verdi’s Rigoletto at Combe Manor, Tenebrae in Douai Abbey, plus the CBSO, RPO and Moscow State Symphony, Newbury 2016 has a spring in its step. 0845 521 8218 (UK only) newburyspringfestival.org.uk

18 June – 17 July In just four years, the Festival of Chichester has blossomed into a month-long jamboree of over 200 events including, this summer, an International Piano Series. +44 (0)1243 813595 www.festivalofchichester.co.uk

Chipping Campden Music Festival 8-21 May

Deal Festival 1-16 July Newly-appointed festival president, trumpeter Alison Balsom presides over the Academy of Ancient Music, cellist Steven Isserlis and Messiaen’s Quartet for the End of Time. Kent’s seaside celebration is the real deal! +44 (0)1304 370220 www.dealfestival.co.uk

Paul Lewis weaves a complete Beethoven piano concerto cycle through a festival that also welcomes harpsichordist Trevor Pinnock and mezzo Angelika Kirchschlager, Chipping Campden debutants both. +44 (0)1386 849018 campdenmusicfestival.co.uk

Salisbury Festival 27 May – 11 June Salisbury is heading down under for its inspiration this year with a New Zealand theme enticing violinist Benjamin Baker and an evening inspired by Maori myth and legend. 0845 241 9651 (UK only) www.salisburyfestival.co.uk

Stour Music 17-26 June Boughton Aluph’s pilgrim Church of All Saints offers sanctuary to the cream of early music groups including The Sixteen, Fretwork and Stile Antico. +44 (0)5603 434123 www.stourmusic.org.uk

JAM on the Marsh 7-17 July Onyx Brass in an engine shed, the BBC Singers celebrating Tagore, and a new work by Paul Mealor headline a Romney Marsh JAM session like no other. 0800 988 7984 (UK only) www.jamconcert.org

Erik Satie never made it to idyllic medieval Dartington. But Stravinsky was more fortunate, and the two sit cheek by jowl in pianist Joanna MacGregor’s exuberant summer-school-cum-festival. Also, Bizet’s Carmen and Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas stake the operatic high ground while Alfred Brendel talks Beethoven. WHEN: 30 July – 27 August WHERE: Totnes, Devon TEL: +44 (0)1803 847080 WEB: www.dartington.org/

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n 5 August Monteverdi Vespers of 1610 ; The Big Choir, The City Musick, singers from Stile Antico/ Andrew Griffiths n 15 August Shostakovich Quartet No. 3 and Beethoven Quartet, Op. 132; ≤kampa Quartet n 21 August Debussy and Rachmaninov performed by Steven Osborne (piano)

Plush Festival 15 July – 10 September Whether its through genrebending Encounter concerts or the songs of Hugo Wolf, or from composer-in-residence Oliver Knussen to Tango, Dorset’s Plush is pitch perfect. +44 (0)20 3286 1885 www.plushfestival.com

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Nicholas Collon’s Aurora Orchestra heads to Aldeburgh

YOU’LL NEED TO SET THE ALARM to bright and early if you want to catch the start of pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard’s dawnto-midnight journey through Messiaen’s Catalogue d’oiseaux. And mosquito repellent is recommended for the alfresco early evening instalment at RSPB Minsmere. But the mosquitoes aren’t the only things giving Aimard’s last festival as artistic director something of a buzz. Aldeburgh 2016 contrives an interlocking series of vibrant mini-festivals that circle Aimard’s tastes, nationality and instrument, while charting the creative legacy of World War I as well as juxtaposing the differing musical personalities of Britten and Tippett. There’s also a three-pronged spotlight on the music of Julian Anderson, Rebecca Saunders and Benedict Mason. Opening the festival is a bold, circus-enriched staging by Struan Leslie of Britten’s Les Illuminations sung by soprano Sarah Tynan, accompanied by Nicholas Collon’s Aurora Orchestra. French period-instrument ensemble Les Siècles puts its famed versatility to the test over a four-concert, exhilaratingly plotted residency spanning Rameau to Reich; and – once he’s caught up on his sleep – Aimard presides over an egalitarian concluding piano weekend which offers Grade 1 piano-challenge entrants a path to mainstage glory in Bartók’s

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PIERRE-LAURENT AIMARD Messiaen’s Catalogue d’oiseaux, 19 June

complete Microcosmos alongside the likes of Emanuel Ax. The BBC Symphony and Scottish Symphony Orchestras supply heft while, nearly 30 years after recording the work at Snape for Archiv, Sir John Eliot Gardiner’s Monteverdi Choir and English Baroque Soloists return to perform JS Bach’s St Matthew Passion. WHEN: 10-26 June WHERE: Aldeburgh, Suffolk TEL: +44 (0)1728 687110 WEB: www.aldeburgh.co.uk

5 ALDEBURGH HIGHLIGHTS ‘The Catalogue d’oiseaux is not a piece that’s formatted for the 19th-century concert model – it’s a strange work, very long, very special in terms of content… So there are concerts at different times of the day because in many of these pieces Messiaen describes a day with all its changes in light, atmosphere and more. The idea is to live a day with the audience. In between the concerts, there are walks, discussions and chances to listen to birdsong in the open.’

n 10, 12 & 13 June Britten, Debussy, Adams; Sarah Tynan (soprano), Aurora Orchestra/Nicholas Collon n 11 June Rameau Daphnis et Eglé, Ravel Daphnis et Chloé; Les Siècles/ François-Xavier Roth (pictured left) n 18 June JS Bach St Matthew Passion; James Gilchrist (Evangelist), Monteverdi Choir etc/Gardiner n 19 June Messiaen Catalogue d’oiseaux; Aimard (piano) n 22 June Berlioz, Debussy etc; BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra/Wigglesworth

East MORE GREAT FESTIVALS IN THE EAST

THE BEST OF THE REST gaze heavenwards as Holst’s The Planets absorb conductor Edward Gardner and the National Youth Orchestra. +44 (0)1728 687110 www.aldeburgh.co.uk

Cambridge Festival of the Voice 12-15 May Bringing vocal flair to the Fens, Vox Lumina courts Queen Elizabeth I, Voces8 delve into JS Bach, and The Gesualdo Six unwind with Ligeti. +44 (0)333 666 3366 www.cambridgeearlymusic.org

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Bury St Edmunds three to get ready: Trio Apaches perform small-scale settings

a walk on the wild side courtesy of Trio Apaches and O Duo.

With nearly 250 years of experience behind it, Norfolk and Norwich knows a thing or two about putting on a show. With Mahler’s Symphony of a Thousand in the Norfolk Showground Arena and a new choral work from Kemal Yusuf, 2016 doesn’t stint. Excerpts from Max Richter’s ‘eight-hour lullaby’ Sleep encourage a restorative 40 winks.

WHEN: 15-30 July WHERE: Cambridge TEL: +44 (0)1223 767125 WEB: www.cambridge

WHEN: 13-29 May WHERE: Norwich, Norfolk TEL: +44 (0)1603 766400 WEB: www.nnfestival.org.uk HIGHLIGHTS:

n 15 July Vaughan Williams, Bridge etc; Schubert Ensemble n 26 July JS Bach; Academy of Ancient Music n 27 July Lassus Prophetiae Sibyllarum etc; Gallicantus

KING’S LYNN FESTIVAL Shakespeare is supposed to have trodden the boards at King’s Lynn’s medieval Guildhall of St George, and the town’s historic venues come into their own when festival time beckons. The Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra is heading to the movies on opening night, before the Czech National Symphony Orchestra rolls the closing credits with Dvoπák.

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WHEN: 17-30 July WHERE: King’s Lynn, Norfolk TEL: +44 (0)1553 764864 WEB: kingslynnfestival.org.uk HIGHLIGHTS:

It’s all change at Cambridge Summer Music: it’s expanding to include a spring and autumn series alongside a renewed commitment to the young. But there’s plenty, too, for the young at heart. World premieres are sprinkled through a programme that gets back to JS Bach with the Academy of Ancient Music. It mixes late night Lassus with new works and takes

n 17 July Mozart, John Williams etc; Royal Phiharmonic Concert Orchestra/Tim Redmond n 26 July Mozart & Weber Clarinet Quintets; Emma Johnson (clarinet), Piatti Quartet n 30 July Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto, Dvoπák Symphony No. 8; Alexander Sitkovetsky (violin), Czech National Symphony Orchestra/Libor Pe≥ek

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Frinton Festival 2-5 June The Barbican Piano Trio and friends decamp to the seaside, majoring on Beethoven and Saint-Saëns, but there’s a Ronald Corp premiere and Coldplay too. +44 (0)1255 319141 www.frintonfestival.com

Holt Festival 23-31 July Electric string quartet String Fever plugs into a wide-ranging festival welcoming Chopin from pianist Mariola Cieniawa and violin duo Retorica. +44 (0)1603 598699 www.holtfestival.org

Snape Proms 30 July – 29 August Snape’s informal postscript to an Aldeburgh June turns its

26-29 August Mozart’s Gran Partita and Requiem mark the start and finish of high summer’s musicmaking in Constable country. The programme includes a concert performance of Monteverdi’s L’incoronazione di Poppea. +44 (0)1206 366603 www.suffolkvillagesfestival.com

Roman River Festival 16 September – 2 October After July’s weekend ‘prelude’, Colchester-based Roman River slips up a gear with the Chiaroscuro Quartet, violinist Nicola Benedetti, and Bartók’s The Miraculous Mandarin. +44 (0)1206 729356 www.romanrivermusic.org.uk

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n 15 May Chausson, Franck, Yusuf Cain; Festival Chorus, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra/David Parry n 16 May Debussy, Poulenc, Ravel, Fauré; I Fagiolini/ Robert Hollingworth n 21 May Mahler Symphony No. 8; Norwich Philharmonic Chorus and Orchestra, massed choirs/Matthew Andrews

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20-29 May Violinist Nigel Kennedy, the Aurora Orchestra and Armonico head to Bury, where the Marian Consort and actor Finbar Lynch are on the trail of Gesualdo. +44 (0)1284 758000 www.buryfestival.co.uk

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15-27 August Three Menuhin centenary events crown an adventurous line-up stretching from medieval Icelandic vocal music to pianist Alexander Melnikov’s Shostakovich. +44 (0)1328 730357 www.northnorfolkmusic festival.com

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Artists include: European Union Chamber Orchestra, Freddy Kempf, Academy of Ancient Music, Muygenkyo Talko Drummers, OperaUpClose, Kosmos Ensemble, Steven Isserlis, National Youth Jazz Orchestra and Changeling Theatre Company

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ESTIVAL FNovember 2016

Beethoven concertos with Murray Perahia & Academy of St Martin in the Fields Elgar Dream of Gerontius with Britten Sinfonia & combined Cambridge University chapel choirs Bach, Poulenc and Duruflé with Choir of King’s College Cambridge Full programme announced and on sale in September

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Dorking Halls, Surrey

CATALOGUE D’OISEAUX Pierre-Laurent Aimard performs Messiaen’s grand evocation of birdsong in concerts from sunrise to midnight, set against the panoramic backdrops and teeming wildlife of locations on the Suffolk coast.

ILLUMINATIONS World premiere of a new staging of music by Britten, Debussy and John Adams, performed by soprano Sarah Tynan, an ensemble of international circus performers and Aurora Orchestra

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Serenade to Music l Vaughan Williams Harmoniemesse l Haydn Mass in G l Schubert Come ye Sons of Art Away l Purcell SATURDAY 16 APRIL 7.30PM

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Arditti Quartet, Emanuel Ax, BBC Symphony Orchestra, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, BCMG, Ian Bostridge, Choir of King’s College Cambridge, Les Siècles, Solomon’s Knot & Mira Calix, Toby Spence, Thomas Zehetmair

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This year the Festival ends with performances by three great European orchestras, including the Vienna Philharmonic with whom Festival director and pianist Rudolf Buchbinder will perform all five Beethoven piano concertos in a single day – a veritable tour de force. Concerts are held in the architecturally dramatic Wolkenturm, in the grounds of the Metternich estate. Staying at the 4* Steigenberger Hotel set amongst the Grüner-Veltliner vineyards, we will also enjoy day trips to the picturesque village of Dürnstein, the Benedictine Abbey at Melk, and a panoramic tour of Vienna.

A SEVEN NIGHT HOLIDAY | 10 OCTOBER 2016 Join the Doric String Quartet on the idyllic island of Ischia for six exclusive concerts at La Mortella, the former home of Sir William & Lady Walton. We will also enjoy one concert given as part of the Walton Trust’s series. Our concerts are held in the lovely concert hall overlooking the garden, next to the villa where the Waltons lived. We stay at the 4* Albergo San Montano in the small resort of Lacco Ameno, a few minutes’ drive from La Mortella with spectacular views of the Bay of Naples. We include a guided tour of the garden at La Mortella and a half-day sightseeing tour of Ischia.

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(hopefully) sunny Glyndebourne celebrates Shakespeare’s 400th

THE 400TH ANNIVERSARY of Shakespeare’s death has not gone unnoticed on the parterres and leafy terraces of the summer opera fraternity. Glyndebourne even commissioned Brett Dean to compose a version of Hamlet for next year’s festival, but in the meantime enjoys two bites at the Bard with a new production and a cherished revival. Berlioz’s Béatrice et Bénédict, an affectionate take on Much Ado about Nothing, makes its house debut directed by Laurent Pelly. Taking the title roles are French mezzo Stéphanie d’Oustrac and, returning after last year’s Saul, US tenor Paul Appleby. While after an absence of a decade, Sir Peter Hall’s magical 1981 staging of Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream casts its spell anew with countertenor Tim Mead as Oberon and soprano Kathleen Kim as his put-upon wife Tytania. Opening the season, Robin Ticciati squares up to his first Wagner opera as David McVicar’s 2011 staging of Die Meistersinger returns baritone Gerald Finley to reprise the role of Hans Sachs. Tenor Michael Schade is Walther von Stolzing, soprano Amanda Majeski is Eva, and baritone Jochen Kupfer is the hapless Beckmesser. The comedy continues too as the ongoing saga of Beaumarchais’s Figaro yields a new production by director

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Annabel Arden of Rossini’s The Barber of Seville starring soprano Danielle de Niese as Rosina, and 2012’s Mozart The Marriage of Figaro, conducted by Jonathan Cohen. JanáΩek’s The Cunning Little Vixen completes the summer’s rich pickings. WHERE: Glyndebourne, East Sussex WHEN: 21 May – 28 August TEL: +44 (0)1273 815000 WEB: www.glyndebourne.com

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GERALD FINLEY Die Meistersinger, 21 May – 27 June ‘It seems incredible that Wagner was capable of something as humanly perceptive as Meistersinger – the joy of this production is really David McVicar and Vladimir Jurowski’s attempt to reinvent the opera’s chamber aspect. There’s a lot of dialogue between characters and instruments of the orchestra, so we wanted to retrieve that intimacy. For the character of Hans Sachs, with his own pain and inner conflict, it makes it a more personal adventure.’

n 21 May – 27 June Wagner Die Meistersinger; Gerald Finley etc; London Philharmonic Orchestra/Robin Ticciati n 22 May – 17 July Rossini The Barber of Seville; Danielle de Niese, Alessandro Corbelli etc; LPO/Enrique Mazzola n 12 June – 31 July JanáΩek The Cunning Little Vixen; Elena Tsallagova, Christopher Purves etc; LPO/Jakub Hru˚sa n 23 July – 27 August Berlioz Béatrice et Bénédict; Stéphanie d’Oustrac, Paul Appleby etc; LPO/Robin Ticciati n 11-28 August Britten A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Tim Mead, Kathleen Kim etc; LPO/Kazushi Ono

Summer opera MORE GREAT SUMMER OPERA FESTIVALS

alfresco verdi: Iford Arts welcomes chamber ensemble CHROMA

IFORD ARTS is also besotted with the Bard. Peto’s Italianate garden and cloister just outside Bath couldn’t be more idyllically suited to a new version of Purcell’s Fairy Queen conducted by Christian Curnyn. On a darker note, Verdi’s Macbeth ensures that conductor Oliver Gooch, director Bruno Ravella and chamber ensemble CHROMA meet again, leaving Mozart’s The Magic Flute to thwart a Shakespearean hat trick. (4 June – 6 August, tel +44 (0)1225 448844 www.ifordarts.org.uk) Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin (with baritone Roderick Williams as Onegin), Mozart’s Idomeneo, and Rossini’s sparkling L’italiana in Algeri underpin GARSINGTON OPERA 2016; and the Rambert Dance Company is enlisted for an intriguing staging of Haydn’s The Creation conducted by Garsington’s music director Douglas Boyd. (3 June – 17 July, tel +44 (0)1865 361636 www.garsingtonopera.org)

It’ll soon be all change for GRANGE PARK OPERA when the company relocates to a new Surrey home next year, but in the meantime it bucks the Shakespearean bandwagon with Wagner’s Tristan and Isolde, Verdi’s smouldering Spanish tragedy Don Carlos and Puccini’s gold-rush opera La fanciulla del West. (1 June – 16 July, tel +44 (0)1962 737373 www.grangeparkopera.co.uk) LONGBOROUGH FESTIVAL OPERA also holds out against Shakespearean midsummer night’s dreaming and, hot on the heels of last year’s Tristan and 2013’s Ring, continues its Wagnerian adventures with a new Tannhäuser sharing the title role between tenors John Treleaven and Neal Cooper. Handel is also consolidating an enthusiastic Cotswold following, as Alcina caps a run that includes Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro and JanáΩek’s Jen≠fa. (9 June – 2 August, tel +44 (0)1451 830292 www.lfo.org.uk)

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CHOICE BUXTON FESTIVAL buxton benefits: a rarely performed Vivaldi serenata takes centre stage

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WITH FRANK MATCHAM’s incomparable Opera House at its heart, Buxton is a festival with the musical stage hardwired into its DNA. It might not go quite as far out on a limb as Wexford in disinterring the long-forgotten, but with the UK premiere of Eötvös’s The Golden Dragon and a rare concert outing for Vivaldi’s serenata La Senna festeggiante (with soprano Ailish Tynan and contralto Hilary Summers), it’s hardly playing safe. The festival even opens with Beethoven’s Leonore rather than his settled last thoughts on the subject: Fidelio. Throw in Bellini’s I Capuleti e i Montecchi to acknowledge Shakespeare year and even then Buxton isn’t exactly playing the populist card, though it’s fair to say that, conducted by Laurence Cummings and with the period instrument know-how of the English Concert in the pit, Tamerlano is fast creeping up the Handel hit parade. Leonore is homegrown, conducted by the festival’s artistic director Stephen Barlow. The Golden Dragon, a tale of exploitation set in the kitchen of a pan-Asian restaurant, returns Music Theatre Wales to the festival, while La Senna festeggiante harnesses the Venetian vivacity of Adrian Chandler’s ensemble La Serenissima. But opera isn’t the only ace up Buxton’s sleeve. Threaded throughout is a literary festival, together with nearly 40 concerts and recitals,

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featuring pianists Stephen Kovacevich and Angela Hewitt, the Elias and Chilingirian Quartets, a Shakespeare song recital from tenor Toby Spence, and a peep into the domestic life of Richard and Pauline Strauss as soprano Gillian Keith confronts ‘The Formidable Frau’. WHEN: 8-24 July WHERE: Buxton, Derbyshire TEL: +44 (0)1298 72190 WEB: www.buxtonfestival.co.uk

5 BUXTON HIGHLIGHTS

STEPHEN BARLOW Beethoven’s Leonore, 8-22 July ‘I get more excited by Leonore than about Fidelio. I wish Beethoven hadn’t changed his mind. Clearly he felt insecure about writing a stage work, but Leonore is very powerful and subtle in a way that Fidelio isn’t quite. Act I of Leonore ends in a blaze of brutality, but in Fidelio, Beethoven chooses a rather thoughtful, careful end. All of the music in Act I of Leonore is worth hearing; it reminds me of the slow movements of Beethoven’s piano concertos in their inspiration and beauty.’

n 8, 12, 15, 19 & 22 July Beethoven Leonore; Kirstin Sharpin (Leonore), David Danholt (Florestan) etc, Buxton Festival Opera/Stephen Barlow n 10, 14, 17 & 21 July Handel Tamerlano; Rupert Enticknap (Tamerlano) etc, The English Concert/Laurence Cummings n 11 July Britten Sinfonietta, Nigel Osborne Bosnian Voices; Ensemble 10/10/Clark Rundell n 14 July Berg Sonata, Op. 1, JS Bach Partita No. 4 in D, Schubert Sonata in A, D959; Stephen Kovacevich (piano) n 18 July Peter Eötvös The Golden Dragon; Music Theatre Wales/Michael Rafferty

Midlands, North & Wales MORE GREAT FESTIVALS IN THE MIDLANDS, THE NORTH AND WALES HIGHLIGHTS:

jazz makeover: pianist Julian Joseph tackles Beethoven

n 10 May Handel Trio Sonatas etc; Avison Ensemble n 11 May Schoenberg Verklärte Nacht etc; Ensemble 306 n 14 May Beethoven ‘Serioso’ Quartet etc; Ensemble 360

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MUSIC IN THE ROUND MAY FESTIVAL ‘Beethoven Revisited’ is the title of this year’s Sheffield Mayfest, which ‘revisits’ with characteristic ingenuity. Landmark works are illuminated by sideways glances such as Hummel’s chamber version of the Eroica Symphony or jazz

pianist Julian Joseph’s re-imagining of the Op. 132 Quartet. Add in a Music Box for babies and an alfresco bake-off and this is Beethoven with all bases covered! WHEN: 6-14 May WHERE: Sheffield TEL: +44 (0)114 249 6000 WEB: musicintheround.co.uk

Yoga and mindfulness are touched on during the Vale’s invigorating brush with the new. Probably no bad thing given a dizzying array of world and UK premieres – 12 in all, including a viola concerto for Maxim Rysanov by Pe¯teris Vasks. Turning 70 this year, Vasks is the featured composer alongside Steve Reich, who turns 80, and the festival’s founder John Metcalf, also 70. Happy Birthdays all! WHEN: 10-20 May WHERE: Cardiff and the Vale

of Glamorgan TEL: 0844 8700 887 (UK only)

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org.uk HIGHLIGHTS:

n 10 May Vasks, Pärt etc; Latvian Radio Choir/Sigvards Klava n 14 May Reich Different Trains, Vasks String Quartet No. 3; Andreas Borregaard (accordion), Quatuor Tana n 20 May Vasks Viola Concerto (world premiere) etc; Maxim Rysanov (viola), Alice Neary (cello). BBC National Orchestra of Wales/Edwin Outwater

GREGYNOG FESTIVAL Last year’s French revolutionary fervour makes way for a celebration of all things Irish as Gregynog takes its cue from Dublin’s Easter Rising 100 years ago. The city’s 18th-century heyday is woven into a narrative spanning from medieval times to the present day in the company of Jordi Savall’s Hespèrion XXI, and harpsichordist >

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Mahan Esfahani – who dips into the Dublin Virginals Book.

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WHEN: 16-26 June WHERE: Gregynog, Powys TEL: +44 (0)1686 207100 WEB: www.gregynogfestival.org HIGHLIGHTS:

n 16 & 18 July Handel Alcina; Festival Opera/Ian Tindale n 25 July Schubert Winterreise; Roderick Williams (baritone), Christopher Glynn (piano) n 28 July James MacMillan (work tbc) etc; Tenebrae/Nigel Short

n 19 June Martin Hayes (fiddle), Dennis Cahill (guitar), Hespèrion XXI/Jordi Savall n 21 June Dublin’s Golden Age; Academy of Ancient Music/∫iΩic´ n 23 June Peter Warlock and Irish song; Ailish Tynan (soprano), Iain Burnside (piano)

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YORK EARLY MUSIC FESTIVAL Magic and mystery hangs in the air as the UK’s premiere early music festival sets its shoulder to the Shakespearean wheel. Ensemble Lucidarium savours ‘sounds from Shylock’s Venice’, and while Purcell gets his teeth into A Midsummer Night’s Dream, the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment braves The Tempest in a multi-composer 1674 respray. WHEN: 8-16 July WHERE: York, N Yorks TEL: +44(0)1904 658338 WEB: www.ncem.co.uk HIGHLIGHTS:

n 8 July Music for a Merchant; Ensemble Lucidarium n 13 July Purcell The Fairy Queen; Yorkshire Baroque Soloists/ Peter Seymour n 14 July The Tempest: A dramatick opera; Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment/ Elizabeth Kenny

RYEDALE FESTIVAL With venues ranging from stately Castle Howard and Sledmere House to York Minster and Ampleforth Abbey, Ryedale almost doesn’t need to try. But try it does, and triumphs. Handel’s Alcina sets enchantment centre stage and baritone Roderick Williams premieres a new English version of Schubert’s Winterreise. The ‘tripledecker’ concert at Castle Howard returns, with three contrasting performances and the audience moving between them. WHEN: 15-31 July WHERE: Ryedale, North Yorks TEL: +44 (0)1751 475777

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voice of celebration: bass-baritone Willard White sings at Harrogate

Leeds Lieder 1-3 April Featuring mezzo Katarina Karnéus, baritone Roderick Williams, tenor Mark Padmore and the Myrthen Ensemble, plus two newly commissioned song cycles, Leeds Lieder has plenty to sing about. +44 (0)113 234 6956 www.leedslieder.org.uk Swaledale Festival 28 May – 11 June Pianist Benjamin Grosvenor, the Hallé, Stile Antico and centenary Dutilleux from the Heath Quartet swell Swaledale’s action-packed attractions. +44 (0)1748 880019 www.swaledale-festival.org.uk

Lichfield Festival 1-10 July The 35th anniversary Lichfield is mindful of the Somme and the Easter Rising as it renews last year’s pact with opera and welcomes Deborah Pritchard as composer-in-residence. +44 (0)1543 412121 www.lichfieldfestival.org

Harrogate Festival 1-31 July Harrogate promises the biggest festival in its 50-year history – with the Czech National Symphony Orchestra, bassbaritone Sir Willard White and the Brodsky Quartet spearheading the celebrations. +44 (0)1423 562303 www.harrogateinternational festivals.com

Gower Festival 1-16 July The churches of the Gower peninsula are blessed with Beethoven from pianist Llyˇr Williams, and Schubert’s Trout Quintet is hooked for opening night. +44 (0)1792 475715 www.gowerfestival.org

Lake District Summer Music Festival 30 July – 12 August The Cumbrian hills are alive to the sound of the ≤kampa, Chilingirian and Sattler Quartets. The Menuhin centenary is not overlooked, and there’s Gesualdo to die for! +44 (0)1539 742621 www.ldsm.org.uk

Corbridge Chamber Music Festival 12-14 August Shakespeare-themed chamber music and late-night Messiaen are highlights as the Gould Piano Trio and friends reconvene in Hadrian’s Wall country. +44 (0)1434 652477 www.corbridgefestival.co.uk

Machynlleth Festival 21-28 August Pianist Pascal Rogé and the Navarra Quartet are among the Tabernacle treats illuminated by broadcaster Christopher Cook’s pre-concert ‘Cook’s Tours’. +44 (0)1654 703355 www.moma.machynlleth.org.uk

If things go to plan, Sergei Eisenstein’s classic film Battleship Potemkin will slip its moorings with live accompaniment from pianist Ashley Wass and violinist Matthew Trusler, as Wass’s LICMF embraces a film and TV theme. Composerin-residence Carl Davis is on hand, with experience of composing for television and silent movies. WHEN: 15-21 August WHERE: Lincoln and surroundings TEL: +44 (0)1522 873894 WEB: www.licmf.org.uk HIGHLIGHTS:

n 15 August Beethoven Ghost Trio etc; Trio Apache n 17 August Prokofiev Peter and the Wolf etc; Chris Jarvis (narrator), LICMF Ensemble n 20 August Schubert Quintet in C etc; cellist (tbc), Piatti Quartet

PRESTEIGNE FESTIVAL A staging of Stravinsky’s The Soldier’s Tale, Robert Saxton’s specially commissioned The Resurrection of the Soldiers and Messiaen’s Quartet for the End of Time point to a Presteigne pondering war and its fallout in this centenary year of the Battle of the Somme. The Dutilleux centenary comes in for scrutiny too. WHEN: 25-30 August WHERE: Presteigne, Radnorshire TEL: +44 (0)1544 267800 WEB: presteignefestival.com HIGHLIGHTS:

25 August Stravinsky The Soldier’s Tale; Nova Music Ensemble/Vass 27 August Beethoven Quartet, Op. 95 etc; Carducci Quartet 30 August Saxton The Resurrection of the Soldier (world premiere), David Matthews Piano Concerto etc; Clare Hammond (piano), Presteigne Festival Orchestra/George Vass

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Sheffield’s annual festival of chamber music celebrates Beethoven and his influence with 32 events over 9 days. Resident musicians, Ensemble 360, are joined by the Avison Ensemble, the Vertavo String Quartet, Singer-inResidence Roderick Williams, jazz pianist Julian Joseph, broadcaster John Suchet and more!

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Gabrieli Consort The Beat The Marian Consort Jamie Smith’s MABON The Roberts/Exall Jazz Quintet Lunchtime recitals including the 2016 Menuhin Junior Competition winner The Tin Pigeons The Bach Walk Grease at the outdoor cinema Illyria Open Air Theatre Oundle Food Festival

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CHOICE EDINBURGH back in the action: mezzo Cecilia Bartoli reprises her lead role in Bellini’s Norma

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KAREN CARGILL Schoenberg’s Gurrelieder, date tbc

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‘We associate Schoenberg with atonal music, but Gurrelieder is a grand, Romantic work and very accessible. Schoenberg writes so well for the voice – the role of the Wood Dove is a joy to sing. Gurrelieder is such a massive piece: I did it first in Berlin with Simon Rattle and it was one of the most extraordinary things I’ve ever done, because there were barely two inches on the stage for anyone to move – it was packed! Watching that number of people making music together is an emotional experience in itself. It’ll be Donald Runnicles’s last performance with the BBC Scottish, so that’ll be emotional, too.’

EDINBURGH FESTIVAL came into existence in 1947 to provide ‘a platform for the flowering of the human spirit’, and nearly 70 years on, come three weeks in August, spirits flower and soar. Fergus Linehan presented his first festival as artistic director last year, and although he’s currently keeping his cards close to his chest, the erstwhile head of music at Sydney Opera House has given advance notice of one eye-catching headliner for 2016: three performances of Bellini’s Norma with mezzo-soprano Cecilia Bartoli in the title role. The production by Patrice Caurier and Moshe Leiser was first seen at the Salzburg Whitsun Festival in 2013 and went on to bag that year’s ‘Best New Production Award’ in the International Opera Awards. An all-star cast is assembled around Bartoli, including soprano Rebeca Olvera as Adalgisa,

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EDINBURGH HIGHLIGHTS n 5, 7 & 9 August Bellini Norma; Cecilia Bartoli (Norma), John Osborn (Pollione), Rebeca Olvera (Adalgisa), Swiss Radio & Television Chorus, Lugano, I Barocchisti/Diego Fasolis (pictured) n Date tbc Schoenberg Gurrelieder; Anja Kampe (Tove), Karen Cargill (Waldtaube), Simon O’Neill (Waldemar), Anthony Dean Griffey (Klaus the Fool), Iain Paterson (Peasant), Thomas Quasthoff (Narrator), Edinburgh Festival Chorus, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra/Donald Runnicles

and tenor John Osborn, who returns (after appearing in 2014’s concert performance of Rossini’s William Tell) to sing Pollione. Diego Fasolis conducts the period instruments of I Barocchisti. Celebrating its half-century last year, the Festival Chorus was kept busy with five blockbusters including Berlioz’s Grande messe des morts, Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis and Sibelius’s Kullervo. It’s not getting off lightly this year either. Donald Runnicles steps down as chief conductor of the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and bids farewell with Schoenberg’s massive Gurrelieder. Soprano Anja Kampe sings Tove, mezzo-soprano Karen Cargill is the Wood Dove, and the narrator is Thomas Quasthoff. Full festival details are announced on 6 April. WHEN: 5-29 August WHERE: Edinburgh, Scotland TEL: +44 (0)131 473 2000 WEB: www.eif.co.uk

Scotland & Northern Ireland MORE GREAT FESTIVALS IN SCOTLAND AND NORTHERN IRELAND TECTONICS GLASGOW Opera makes its debut at this year’s Glasgow edition of conductor Ilan Volkov’s barrier-busting contemporary music festival. And there’s an environmental strand including Annea Lockwood’s installation A Sound Map of the Housatonic River. Among the premieres, veteran pianist John Tilbury unveils a new piano concerto by Howard Skempton. WHEN: 7-8 May WHERE: Glasgow, Scotland TEL: +44 (0)141 353 8000 WEB: tectonicsfestival.com HIGHLIGHTS:

n 7 May world premiere of works by Howard Skempton, Laurence Crane and Catherine Kontz; John Tilbury (piano), BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra/Volkov n 8 May Jane Dickson Labyrinthine; Lucy Duncombe & Anneke Kampman (voices)

n 8 May David Fennessy Hirta Rounds; BBC SSO/Volkov

PERTH FESTIVAL OF THE ARTS The Perth Festival has 45 birthday candles to extinguish and enlists a little glitz from The John Wilson Orchestra’s tribute to Hollywood and Broadway. Scottish Opera’s ‘theatre on wheels’ rolls into town, hot on the heels of English Touring Opera’s Mozart Don Giovanni, while piano duo Pascal and Ami Rogé celebrate Satie’s 150th anniversary. WHEN: 19-29 May WHERE: Perth, Scotland TEL: +44 (0)1738 621 031 WEB: www.perthfestival.co.uk HIGHLIGHTS:

n 19 May Mozart Don Giovanni; English Touring Opera/Rosewell n 23 May Satie, Debussy, Ravel & Poulenc; Pascal & Ami Rogé (piano)

brahms with flair: Finnish violinist Pekka Kuusisto performs at Cottier

n 29 May R Strauss Don Juan, Sibelius Violin Concerto, Beethoven Symphony No. 5; Elena Urioste (violin), Hallé/Phillips

COTTIER CHAMBER PROJECT Cottier might be the UK’s biggest chamber music festival, but don’t

expect wall-to-wall Haydn or Mozart. Dance is stitched into a programme that spans from Biber to The Iris Murders, a brand new opera by Alasdair Nicolson. Add in Piazzolla’s María de Buenos Aires, or the 111 bicycles of Kagel’s Eine Brise, and ‘staid’ is not in Cottier’s vocabulary. >

Scotland & Northern Ireland WHEN: 3-24 June WHERE: Glasgow, Scotland TEL: +44 (0)141 628 9740 WEB: cottierchamberproject.com HIGHLIGHTS:

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n 13 June Piazzolla Maria de Buenos Aires; Mr McFall’s Chamber n 15 June The Society of Strange and Ancient Instruments n 19 June Brahms, Ligeti, Bartók; Pekka Kuusisto (violin), Alec Frank-Gemmill (horn), Tamara Stefanovich (piano)

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n 21 June Purcell Dido and Aeneas; Voces8, Florilegium n 22 June Rachmaninov, Tippett, Prokofiev; Simon TrpΩeski (piano), BBC Symphony Orchestra/ Alexander Vedernikov n 25 June Carpenter Dadaville, Beethoven Symphony No. 9; BBC SO/Alexander Vedernikov

EAST NEUK FESTIVAL

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WHEN: 22 June – 3 July WHERE: East Neuk, Fife TEL: +44 (0)131 473 2000 WEB: www.eastneukfestival.com HIGHLIGHTS:

n 1 July Martin∞ Quartet No. 3, Dvoπák Quartet, Op. 34; Pavel Haas Quartet

15-19 April The Red Note Ensemble, the Maxwell Quartet and tenor Jamie MacDougall head to the Highlands as Loch Shiel celebrates its 20th birthday. +44 (0)1397 722480 www.shielfestival.com

Walled City Music Festival 2-5 June Ahead of October’s International Choral Festival, DerryLondonderry warms up with a festival of chamber music that is as eclectic as it is compact. +44 (0)28 7126 4455 www.walledcitymusic.com

Mendelssohn on Mull 4-9 July There’s Mendelssohn, of course, but Iona, Oban and Mull resound to Brahms and Dvoπák too as violinist Levon Chilingirian directs the string chamberfest. +44 (0)7889 277078 www.mendelssohnonmull.com

Aberdeen Youth Festival 29 July – 6 August Choirs and instrumentalists from the US, Norway and Italy are joined by the Hebrides Ensemble and Operas North and Scottish in a celebration of musical youth. +44 (0)1224 213800 www.aiyf.org

Clandeboye Festival 10-22 August Marking 30 years since artistic director Barry Douglas won

the Moscow Tchaikovsky Piano Competition, Clandeboye 2016 favours a Russian theme. +44 (0)28 9024 1919 camerata-ireland.com/clandeboye

Northern Ireland Opera Festival of Voice

WHEN: 15-24 July WHERE: Paxton House,

Berwick-on-Tweed TEL: +44 (0)131 473 2000 WEB: www.musicatpaxton.co.uk HIGHLIGHTS

26-28 August Featuring recitals wrapped around a Gala singing competition, Northern Ireland Opera’s sixth festival returns to the historic Antrim coastal village of Glenarm. +44 (0)28 902 77734 www.niopera.com

n 16 July Adès, Beethoven, Chausson; Doric String Quartet, Alina Ibragimova (violin), Cédric Tiberghien (piano) n 22 July Mozart, Poulenc, Ravel; Van Kuijk Quartet n 24 July Schoenberg Verklärte Nacht, Brahms; Scottish Ensemble

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29 September – 2 October Sacred meets late-night secular when Sir James MacMillan’s Ayrshire ‘Tryst’ renews its focus on choral and brass music. +44 (0)778 861 8652 www.thecumnocktryst.com

Sound 20 October – 9 November North East Scotland’s salute to the new includes specially commissioned works from Peter Maxwell Davies and David Fennessy, plus Louis Andriessen’s De Staat. +44 (0)1330 826526 www.sound-scotland.co.uk

St Andrews Voices 20-23 October The all-encompassing festival of choral and vocal music welcomes I Fagiolini, who take up residence this autumn. +44 (0)1334 475000 www.standrewsvoices.com

With venues ranging from the medieval church of St Mary’s Haddington to the National Museum of Flight’s Concorde Hangar, Lammermuir has its feet in worlds ancient and modern. This is reflected in a programme that features Trio Mediaeval and new music specialists the Red Note Ensemble. Set between Monteverdi’s Vespers of 1610 and Mahler’s Symphony No. 4, East Lothian landmarks await. WHEN: 9-18 September WHERE: East Lothian, Scotland TEL: +44 (0)131 473 2000 WEB: lammermuirfestival.co.uk HIGHLIGHTS:

n 9 September Monteverdi Vespers of 1610; Dunedin Consort/John Butt n 15 September Beethoven, Brahms; BBC Scottish SO/Volkov n 17 September Musorgsky, Debussy; Steven Osborne (piano) BBC M USIC M AG A Z I N E

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Seaside Fife is getting in touch with its Romantic side this year, what with a complete Mendelssohn string quartet cycle from the Calidore Quartet, and pianist-conductor Christian Zacharias’s three-concert Schumann odyssey. But the Battle of the Somme centenary strikes a more sombre note as Paul Hillier conducts the world premiere of David Lang’s Memorial Ground.

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WHEN: 16-26 June WHERE: Orkney, Scotland TEL: + 44 (0)1856 871445 WEB: stmagnusfestival.com HIGHLIGHTS:

spectacular settings: the Maxwell Quartet help Loch Shiel celebrate 20 years

When it comes to artists-inresidence, few ‘residences’ quite match the Palladian elegance of John Adams’s Paxton House. Violinist Alina Ibragimova and pianist Cédric Tiberghien inaugurate the Tweed-side festival’s first venture in ‘residency’, and share its stately rooms with the likes of cellist Pieter Wispelwey and the Van Kuijk Quartet.

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ST MAGNUS FESTIVAL With 40 music premieres, 40 new poems and 40 specially created art works, St Magnus turns 40 and isn’t going to let you forget it. The BBC Symphony Orchestra contributes a Beethoven Ninth, opera is dished up in triplicate, and there’s a new work for children by festival founder Sir Peter Maxwell Davies.

n 2 July David Lang Memorial Ground. Fife Choirs, Scottish Chamber Orchestra Chorus, Theatre of Voices/Paul Hillier n 3 July Shostakovich Cello Concerto No. 1, Schumann Symphony No. 2; Julian Steckel (cello), SCO/Christian Zacharias

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Ariel String Quartet Jenny Chen Elmer Churampi John-Henry Crawford Lucas Debargue Alessandro Deljavan Nikolai Demidenko Dover String Quartet Excelsis Percussion Quartet Caroline Goulding Emily Helenbrook Matt Haimovitz Stephen Hough Eunice Kim Konstantin Lifschitz George Li Anne-Marie McDermott Christopher O’Riley Svetlana Smolina Yevgeny Sudbin John Bruce Yeh

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Art and Music under the Beartooth Mountains, just North of Yellowstone Park

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the ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra performs Thomas Adès’s The Exterminating Angel

YOU COULDN’T ACCUSE SALZBURG’s festival of being insular. But it does like to look after its own. There’s a complete Mozart/ Da Ponte opera trilogy for example, and the glories of adopted son Heinrich Biber’s 53-voice Missa Salisburgensis brings 17th-century surround-sound to the cathedral where it was first heard. But Salzburg looks outwards too. This year it mourns the loss of Pierre Boulez, while continuing to nurture the new in its ‘Salzburg Contemporary’ strand. By chance, the composers Friedrich Cerha and György Kürtag are both 90 this year and their music is showcased alongside that of Thomas Adès and Peter Eötvös. The world premiere of Adès’s The Exterminating Angel launches an opera season that witnesses another Salzburg first: Gounod’s Faust. There’s a rare staging of festival founder Richard Strauss’s Die Liebe der Danae; and Bernstein’s West Side Story returns Gustavo Dudamel and the Simón Bolivár Orchestra, with mezzo-soprano Cecilia Bartoli as Maria. The Vienna Philharmonic continues to excavate its own history, presenting works it originally premiered, including Mahler’s Kindertotenlieder and Brahms’s St Anthony Variations; and among Salzburg’s other visitors, Barenboim’s West-Eastern Divan Orchestra salutes its host with Mozart’s last three

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symphonies. The Cleveland Orchestra sets Adès beside Strauss, while Amsterdam’s Royal Concertgebouw acknowledges the Dutilleux centenary. Closest to home, the Salzburg Mozarteum Orchestra celebrates its 175th birthday in the company of Sir Neville Marriner – at 92 a mere whippersnapper! WHEN: 22 July – 31 August WHERE : Salzburg, Austria TEL: +43 (0)662 8045 500 WEB: www.salzburgerfestspiele.at

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JORDI SAVALL Venice & Byzantium, 26 July ‘Venice was founded by the Byzantium people in the eighth century – it’s fascinating to hear how its music has Orthodox influences. The influence of the Orient was strong, too. You can hear it in Vivaldi’s music – sometimes the orchestra plays in unison, an imitation of the Oriental tradition. We’ll chart the city’s history with the most beautiful music we could find…’

n 27 July Biber Missa Salisburgensis etc; Collegium 1704 & Vocale/Václav Luks n 28 July – 8 August Adès The Exterminating Angel; Amanda Echalaz (Lucia; below), ORF Vienna Radio SO/Adès n 31 July Bach solo violin sonatas and partitas; Isabelle Faust (violin) n 6 & 7 August Pärt Swansong etc; Matthias Goerne (baritone), Vienna Philharmonic/Zubin Mehta n 28 August Mahler Symphony No. 7; Berlin Philharmonic/Simon Rattle

Europe Hardenberger (trumpet), Bergen Philharmonic/Kazuki Yamada

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FESTIVAL DE SAINTDENIS FRANCE

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WHEN: 26 May – 24 June WHERE: Paris, France TEL: +33 (0)1 48 13 06 07 WEB: festival-saint-denis.com HIGHLIGHTS:

Myung-Whun Chung conducts Mozart’s 40th in Budapest

BUDAPEST SPRING FESTIVAL

WHEN: 8-24 April WHERE: Budapest, Hungary TEL: +36 (0)1555 3300 WEB: www.bsf.hu HIGHLIGHTS:

JEAN-FRANÇOIS LECLERCQ, RICHARD CANNON

PRAGUE SPRING FESTIVAL With Paavo Järvi slated to conduct the traditional opening Smetana Má Vlast, Prague signals a Baltic undertow to a theme also reaching out to Spain and Latin America. The 700th anniversary of the birth of King Charles IV doesn’t go unremarked; and

n 15 May Martinu˚ Juliette; Soloists, Chorus & Orchestra of the Czech National Theatre/ Jaroslav Kyzlink n 15 May Bruckner Symphony No. 5; Staatskapelle Berlin/ Daniel Barenboim n 2 June Purcell Music for a While, Hail Bright Cecilia etc; Andreas Scholl (countertenor), Collegium 1704/Václav Luks

RAVENNA FESTIVAL Nelson Mandela is a looming presence as the Mandela Trilogy, a musical tribute to his life, brings the Chorus of Cape Town Opera to the stage of Teatro Alighieri – and Ladysmith Black Mambazo to San Giacomo Apostolo. But Ravenna doesn’t forget its own local hero: Riccardo Muti conducts the Luigi Cherubini Youth Orchestra in Viennese classics. WHEN: 13 May – 13 July WHERE: Ravenna, Italy TEL: +39 (0)544 249244 WEB: www.ravennafestival.org HIGHLIGHTS:

n 1 June Mozart Rondo, K511 etc;

BERGEN FESTIVAL ‘Boundaries’ is the Bergen buzzword for 2016, and Anders Beyer’s festival throws down a gauntlet to ‘open minds to new interpretations of our enigmatic world’. Video artist Netia Jones interprets Schoenberg’s Verklärte Nacht and Erwartung (conducted by Baldur Brönniman) and pianist Louis Lortie plays Grieg. WHEN: 25 May – 8 June WHERE: Bergen, Norway TEL: +47 55 21 61 50 WEB: www.fib.no HIGHLIGHTS:

n 26 May Haydn Sonata No. 60 in C, Schubert Sonata in C minor D 958 etc; András Schiff (piano) n 7 June JS Bach Keyboard Concerto in D minor BWV 1052, WF Bach Sonata in D etc; Concerto Köln/Mahan Esfahani (harpsichord) n 8 June Wagner Prelude to Act I of Parsifal, Liszt Les préludes, Grieg Piano Concerto; Benjamin Grosvenor (piano), Håkan

n 26 & 27 May Mahler Symphony No. 3; Mihoko Fujimura (alto), Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France/ Mikko Franck n 6 June Requiem for Anne of Brittany; Doulce Mémoire/ Denis Raisin-Dadre n 17 June Stockhausen ‘Lucifer’s Farewell’ from Samstag aus Licht; Le Balcon/Maxime Pascal, Alphonse Cemin

ISTANBUL FESTIVAL ‘If music be the food of love’, maintains Istanbul Festival (quoting a topical Bard), ‘play on’. And play on it does with excerpts in Turkish from A Midsummer Night’s Dream accompanied by Mendelssohn’s incidental music, double helpings of the Academy of St Martin in the Fields under Murray Perahia, and new music theatre from Michael Ellison. WHEN: 1-24 June WHERE: Istanbul, Turkey TEL: +90 (0)216 556 9800 WEB: muzik.iksv.org/en HIGHLIGHTS:

n 4 June Beethoven Cello Sonata No. 4 in C etc; Antônio Meneses (cello), Maria João Pires (piano) n 7 June Britten Variations a theme of Frank Bridge etc; Academy of St Martin in the Fields/Murray Perahia n 20 June Handel Overture from Ariodante etc; Patricia Petibon

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n 8 April Bartók Viola Concerto Adams Harmonielehre; Kim Kashkashian (viola), Budapest Festival Orchestra/ David Robertson n 14 April Mozart Symphony No. 40 etc; Orchestra of La Scala/ Myung-Whun Chung n 17 April Liszt Christus; Staatskapelle Weimar/ Martin Haselböck

WHEN: 12 May – 4 June WHERE: Prague, Czech Republic TEL: +420 227 012 677 WEB: www.festival.cz/en HIGHLIGHTS:

Mitsuko Uchida (piano) n 10 June Liszt Piano Concerto No. 2; Dénes Várjon (piano), Budapest Festival Orchestra/Iván Fischer n 19 June Turnage Trumpet Concerto, Beethoven Symphony No. 4; Håkan Hardenberger (trumpet), Mahler Chamber Orchestra/Daniel Harding

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Budapest springs into life with an omnivorous programme that looks as far as China for a production of Puccini’s opera Turandot, but is unabashed about blowing trumpets closer to home. The 135th birthday of Bartók provokes choral rejoicing on a large scale, and the oratorio Christus clinches a Lisztian focus.

pianist Maurizio Pollini, Daniel Barenboim’s Staatskapelle Berlin, and countertenor Andreas Scholl effect velvety revolutions.

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The proximity of the European Football Championship is reportedly encouraging St Denis Festival to ‘enlarge its horizons’. And with a reconstruction of the 1514 Requiem for Anne of Brittany a stone’s throw from the final scene of Stockhausen’s opera Samstag aus Licht, and Rosemary Handley’s Birds on a Wire prefacing Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, the mission is accomplished.

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(soprano), Venice Baroque Orchestra/Andrea Marcon

WEST CORK CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL The 21-year-old Cork chamberfest comes of age with an ‘early string trio to last string quartet’ journey through Beethoven, a compelling compendium of song cycles, and a fascinating interleaving of Bach cantata arias with Swedish folk chorales. Historic Bantry House also calls to mind the centenaries of the Somme and Easter Rising in new music by Deirdre Gribbin and Seán Doherty. WHERE: Bantry, Cork, Ireland WHEN: 1-9 July TEL: +353 (0)27 52788 WEB: www.westcorkmusic.ie HIGHLIGHTS:

n 1 July Gribbin Devil’s Dwelling Place (world premiere), string quartets by Beethoven, Bartók and Saygun; Vanbrugh, Kelemen & Borusan Quartets n 3 July JS Bach Cantatas, BWV 84 & 202 etc; Carolyn Sampson (soprano), Concerto Copenhagen n 6 July Schubert Winterreise; Mark Padmore (tenor), Paul Lewis (piano)

FESTIVAL D’AIX EN PROVENCE

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Composed for a Cardinal, Handel’s oratorio Il trionfo del tempo e del disinganno should feel very much at home staged in the courtyard of Aix’s Archbishop’s Palace. It’s at home, too, in the decidedly pukka opera line-up. As well as two world premieres, Debussy’s Pelléas et Melisande is directed by Katie Mitchell, there’s a new Mozart Così fan tutte, and Esa-Pekka Salonen conducts a double bill of Stravinsky’s Oedipus Rex and Symphony of Psalms. WHEN: 30 June – 20 July WHERE: Aix-en-Provence, France TEL: +33 (0)4 34 08 02 17 WEB: www.festival-aix.com HIGHLIGHTS:

n 1-14 July Handel Il trionfo del tempo e del disinganno; Sara Mingardo, Sabine Devieilhe, Le Concert D’Astrée/ Emmannuelle Haïm n 2-16 July Debussy Pelléas et Mélisande; Stéphane Degout

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(Pelléas), Barbara Hannigan (Mélisande), Philharmonia/ Esa-Pekka Salonen n 9 July Stravinsky The Rite of Spring etc; Philharmonia/Salonen

VERBIER FESTIVAL It takes some chutzpah to compete with the breathtaking scenery of the Swiss Alps but Verbier manages it. The philosophy is simple says director Martin T:son Engstroem: ‘invite great conductors, legendary soloists and put them together with the next generation of extraordinary talent’. It’s a winning formula that this year lures the likes of pianist Grigory Sokolov and bass-baritone Bryn Terfel.

high style: The Artis String Quartet perform at Festival Pablo Casals in the Pyrenees

Holland Festival 4-26 June

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It opens with Berg’s Wozzeck, illustrates conductor René Jacobs’s Haydn Creation with film, and gives a residency to the Kronos Quartet. Going Dutch invigorates! +31 (0)20 523 7787 www.hollandfestival.nl

10 July – 25 August George Bernard Shaw thought Dubrovnik was paradise on earth. With over 2,000 artists, including pianist Ivo Pogorelich, conductor/pianist Philippe Entremont and the Vienna Philharmonic Ensemble flocking to its festival, heaven can’t wait! +385 (0)20 326100 www.dubrovnik-festival.hr

International Festival of Music and Dance Granada 17 June – 8 July The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra marks the centenary of Falla’s Nights in the Gardens of Spain in a festival cultivating the 400th anniversary of the deaths of Shakespeare and Cervantes. +34 958 221844 www.granadafestival.org

Munich Opera Festival 19 June – 31 July Munich’s grand-scale tribute to all things operatic opens with Halévy’s La Juive, wraps up warm for Srnka’s South Pole, and offsets Wagner with Rameau’s exotic Les Indes Galantes. +49 (0)89 218501 www.staatsoper.de

Festival of the Two Worlds 24 June – 10 July Antonio Pappano and the Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia sign off Spoleto’s 59th edition with Schoenberg’s Pelleas und Melisande and Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. +39 (0)743 776444 www.festivaldispoleto.com

Festival Pablo Casals 25 July – 13 August The Talich and Artis string quartets are among pilgrims to Pyrenean Prades and its Abbaye Saint-Michel de Cuxa. In Casals’s adopted home, his festival flourishes. +33 4 6896 3307 www.prades-festival-casals.com

MA Festival Bruges 5-14 August Hervé Niquet’s Le Concert Spirituel is in pursuit of Don Quichotte as Bruges battens down for an early music festival toying with Erasmus’s In Praise of Folly. +32 7022 3302 www.MAfestival.be

Baltic Sea Festival 28 August – 4 September Esa-Pekka Salonen, Valery Gergiev and Daniel Harding are among the conductors making a splash at Stockholm’s environmentally minded festival. +46 (0)8784 1800 www.balticseafestival.com

WHEN: 22 July – 7 August WHERE: Verbier, Switzerland TEL: +41 (0)848 771 882 WEB: www.verbierfestival.com HIGHLIGHTS: n 26 July Chopin Deux Nocturnes, Op. 32 etc; Grigory Sokolov (piano) n 29 July Verdi Falstaff; Bryn Terfel (Falstaff), Festival Orchestra/Jésus López Cobos n 7 August Mahler Symphony No. 3; Nathalie Stutzmann (contralto), Festival Orchestra/Tilson Thomas

LUCERNE FESTIVAL IN SUMMER There are new beginnings as Ricardo Chailly gives his first performances as music director of the Lucerne Festival Orchestra, and Wolfgang Rihm takes over the Festival Academy. Lucerne’s ‘PrimaDonna’ theme features 11 female conductors, including Emmanuelle Haïm at the helm of the Vienna Philharmonic; and Bernard Haitink celebrates his Lucerne half-century with Bruckner’s Symphony No. 8. WHEN: 12 August – 11 September WHERE: Lucerne, Switzerland TEL: +41 (0)41 226 4480 WEB: www.lucernefestival.ch HIGHLIGHTS:

n 12 & 13 August Mahler Symphony No. 8; Lucerne Festival Orchestra/Riccardo Chailly n 30 August Mahler Symphony No. 7; Berlin Philharmonic/Rattle n 8 September Handel Il delirio amoroso etc; Sandrine Piau (soprano), Vienna Philharmonic/ Emmanuelle Haïm

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WAGNER IN BUDAPEST OPERA FESTIVAL

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Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg 24, 26 June 2016 / 4pm Artistic director and conductor: Adam Fischer Corporate partners

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An extraordinary concert hall, a world-renowned pioneering period orchestra, a versatile first-class symphony orchestra and a high-profile early music festival are making Bruges a vibrant classical music city throughout the year. CONCERTS / INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION MUSICA ANTIQUA / FRINGE / VELO BAROQUE

2016 HIGHLIGHTS Fr 05.08.2016

Don Quichotte chez la Duchesse Le Concert Spirituel Hervé Niquet

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MAFESTIVAL BRUGGE

Sa 06.08.2016

EARLY MUSIC IN BRUGES

Anne Boleyn’s Songbook Alamire David Skinner Mo 08.08.2016

Delirio Amoroso Arcangelo Jonathan Cohen Thu 11.08.2016

05.08 – 14.08 2016

Sa 13.08.2016

Belshazzar Accademia Bizantina Ottavio Dantone Dedicated to Erasmus’ In Praise of Folly, MAfestival 2016 will explore humor, parody and satire in music, as well as the most diverse kinds of musical madness and folly.

Su 14.08.2016

Vélo Baroque A musical cycling tour out and about Bruges SAVE THE DATE! Bach Academy Bruges 2017 18-22.01.2017

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IN PRAISE OF FOLLY

La Morte della Ragione Il Giardino Armonico Giovanni Antonini

Maurizio Pollini Andreas Scholl Baiba & Lauma Skride Staatskapelle Berlin Singapore Symphony Orchestra BBC Symphony Orchestra Al Ayre Español Seong-Jin Cho Javier Perianes Gil Shaham Andreas Varady Trio Chamber Music Weekend A Prague Spring ticket serves as a voucher for admission to all exhibits at the National Gallery in Prague and at the DOX Centre for Contemporary Art More information and tickets online

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12 / 5 – 4 / 6 / 2016

71st International Music Festival

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