Sacred Music in Santiago 2nd edition, 26 or 28 September–2 October 2019

Sacred Music in

Santiago CELEBRATING MUSIC AND PLACE

Spiritual music in one of the world’s greatest pilgrimage 28 SEPTEMBER–2 OCTOBER 2019 destinations.

SECOND EDITION

MARTIN RANDALL FESTIVALS

MARTIN RANDALL FESTIVALS bring together world-class musicians for a sequence of private concerts in Europe’s glorious historic buildings, many of which are not normally accessible. We take care of all logistics, from flights and hotels, to pre-concert talks.

THE J.S. BACH JOURNEY 13–19 MAY 2019 WEST COUNTRY CHORAL FESTIVAL 7–11 JULY 2019 MUSIC ALONG THE DANUBE 31 AUGUST–7 SEPTEMBER 2019 SACRED MUSIC IN SANTIAGO 28 SEPTEMBER–2 OCTOBER 2019 THE THOMAS TALLIS TRAIL 1–3 NOVEMBER 2019 OPERA IN SOUTHERN SICILY 5–11 NOVEMBER 2019 Please contact us for full details or visit www.martinrandall.com/festivals

‘ MRT is unique in the way they match music to location.’

Participant on an MRT festival in 2018.

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Photograph: Paul McCreesh directing the Gabrieli ©Bill Knight 2018.

CONTENTS

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INTRODUCING THE FESTIVAL Discover the festival package and locations, as well as festival speakers.

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MEET THE MUSICIANS

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PRE- & POSTFESTIVAL TOURS Extend your stay in Spain with a tour designed to link with the festival.

International musicians of the highest calibre.

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FESTIVAL PROGRAMME The day-by-day itinerary including details of the concerts.

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ACCOMMODATION & TRAVEL

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BOOKING DETAILS

The booking form, details of our booking process, and our Booking Conditions.

Choose your hotel and decide how you travel to Spain.

Photography. Unless credited otherwise, photos were taken

by Ben Ealovega on MRT festivals.

Date printed: February 2019.

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INTRODUCTION

SACRED MUSIC IN SANTIAGO AN INTRODUCTION

The goal of countless pilgrims for twelve hundred years, Santiago de Compostela is one of the world’s greatest pilgrimage destinations.

Tenebrae, Gabrieli, El León de Oro, La Serenissima, Clare College Choir.

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Remote, compact, radiating a gritty beauty and infused with spiritual history, this little Galician city in northwest Spain is an ideal setting for a festival of sacred music.

This is a festival that lifts the spirits and speaks of celestial glories, music that touches the heart and leads to contemplation of higher things. The repertoire comes from far and wide: England, Estonia, Flanders, France, Italy, Mexico, Spain. While some has a direct connection to the Camino, more importantly it all in some way reflects or is analogous to the experience of the Christian pilgrim, seeking to transform earthly tribulations into heavenly joys.

Santiago de Compostela grew up around the alleged tomb of St James the Great, which was miraculously rediscovered in the ninth century in the Galician highlands. Among the best-preserved historic cities of Europe, a labyrinth of streets, stairways and plazas threads around imposing churches and monasteries, mighty palaces and rank-and-file houses and shops. The centre is almost completely unspoilt by modern intrusions.

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On the headland of Iberia not far from the Atlantic, rain is frequent, mist common, and pines and deciduous forests cloak the surrounding hills.

Inhospitable topography, intractable stone: granite is the building material, the paving, the sculptor’s medium.

There is scarcely any level ground.

Austerity and severity characterise much of the architecture, appropriately expressing the ideals of purposeful privation. But there is also an abundance of elaborate decoration, carved and gilded, profuse and prolix, awe-inspiring and uplifting; thus are the sentiments of Christian joy expressed.

Our concert venues are among the finest buildings in the city, Romanesque, Gothic and Baroque, reflecting Santiago’s status as a pilgrimage destination into the modern era.

INTRODUCTION

THE FESTIVAL PACKAGE

OPTIONAL EXTRAS

THE SPOKEN WORD

Admission to the concerts is exclusive to a maximum of 170 participants who take the festival package which includes:

In addition, there are extra services that can be booked:

The spoken word is an important ingredient of the festival. Each morning begins with an introduction to the music and there are optional visits with architectural historian John McNeill.

— F ive private concerts in the finest sacred spaces of Santiago.

—A n extra dinner, which means each evening is spent in the company of other festival participants.

—G uided tours in between concerts.

—H otel accommodation for four nights in the historic centre. See page 13.

— F lights between the UK and Spain (reduced price if you arrange your own).

See page 14.

­— A choice of three pre-festival tours: Ancient Kingdoms of Castile & León; The Renaissance in Castile or Walking to Santiago. See pages 15–19. ­— Post-festival tour: Art in Madrid.

See page 20.

—P rivate coach travel between airport and hotel, and to one concert. ­— B reakfasts and three dinners with wine, interval drinks where appropriate, all tips. ­— T alks on the music by Professor John Bryan and Nigel Short. ­— T he assistance of festival staff and a detailed programme booklet.

THE CAMINO An extension to the festival, The Camino, begins on 26th September in Zamora. The number of participants is limited to 70.

This has now sold out. Please visit our website for further details and contact us should you wish to put your name on the waiting list.

Illustration: Santiago, steel engraving c. 1850.

Photographs, clockwise from top left: John Bryan; John McNeill; Nigel Short ©Sim Canetty-Clarke.

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PROFESSOR JOHN BRYAN is Professor of Music at the University of Huddersfield, and a member of the Rose Consort of Viols and of Musica Antiqua, with whom he has toured and recorded extensively.

He is artistic adviser to York Early Music Festival and a regular contributor on BBC Radio 3. He also founded the North East Early Music Forum. He conducts the York Chamber Orchestra, and as musical director of York Opera has conducted Mozart’s The Magic Flute and Britten’s Albert Herring.

JOHN McNEILL is an architectural historian of the Middle Ages and Renaissance. He lectures for Oxford University’s Department of Continuing Education and is Honorary Secretary of the British Archaeological Association.

Publications include articles in learned journals and guidebooks to Normandy and the Loire Valley.

The programme was devised in collaboration with NIGEL SHORT, director of Tenebrae choir – he gives a talk on the music. Under his direction, Tenebrae has collaborated with internationally acclaimed orchestras and instrumentalists. As a Gramophone awardwinning producer, Nigel works with many of the UK’s leading professional choirs and vocal ensembles.

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THE PROGRAMME

THE FESTIVAL PROGRAMME

Day 1

Day 2

Saturday 28 September

Sunday 29 September

The day begins with a lecture by musicologist John Bryan, his first of three during the festival.

The rest of the morning is free to become acquainted with Santiago or take an optional guided tour with architectural historian John McNeill.

In the early afternoon we drive out to the collegiate church of Santa María la Real de Sar. Built as a vaulted hall church after 1136, it is celebrated for the outward lean of its supporting piers and the sculpture of its beautiful cloister.

Concert, 2.30pm: Colegiata de Santa María la Real de Sar Flanders & Spain El León de Oro Peter Phillips director We fly either from London Heathrow to La Coruña, about 1 hour’s drive from Santiago, or from Heathrow to Santiago, via Madrid. See pages 13–14 for more details on flights and hotels.

Settle into your chosen hotel before drinks and dinner.

This programme features writing from Flanders and Spain. The Flemish half is dominated by a magnificent double-choir mass by Lassus, written in the Venetian tradition; the Spanish half is frameworked with motets by Francesco Guerrero, famed for his music in praise of the Virgin. In between we hear how Arvo Pärt could hymn her; and the young English composer, Matthew Martin, rewrites Guerrero’s Ave virgo sanctissima to give it a new perspective.

The mighty monastery complex of San Martín Pinario contains the grandest 17th- and 18th-century church in Santiago, the majestic interior enlivened by a wonderfully ornate gilded altarpiece which fills the east end.

Concert, 7.30pm: Iglesia de San Martín Pinario Spem in Alium: a celebration of music for double choir Tenebrae & Alumni of Clare College Choir, Cambridge University Nigel Short director A programme of resplendent sacred music for single and double choir including Tallis’ Spem in Alium, Brumel’s Earthquake Mass, Croft’s Burial Sentences and Missa Ego Flos Campi by Spanish/Mexican composer Juan Gutiérrez de Padilla.

Dinner follows the concert for everyone.

Illustrations: Opposite: Santiago Cathedral, Porta de la Gloria, wood engraving c. 1890.

Above: Santiago, cathedral, wood engraving c. 1880.

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THE FESTIVAL PROGRAMME

Day 3

Day 4

Monday 30 September

Tuesday 1 October

There are morning talks by John Bryan and Nigel Short. There follows a concert at the 17th-century church in the Convento de San Pelayo de Antealtares, dominated by a magnificent gilded and polychromed retable.

John Bryan gives his final talk this morning.

There is also further opportunity to join an optional visit with John McNeill, in the morning or the afternoon.

Concert, 11.00am: Iglesia de San Pelayo de Antealtares Antonio Caldara: Morte e sepoltura di Christo La Serenissima Adrian Chandler director Julia Doyle soprano Renata Pokupić mezzo-soprano Hilary Summers contralto Robert Murray tenor Neal Davies baritone Antonio Caldara arrived at the imperial court of Vienna in 1716 where he spent the rest of his life composing large ceremonial works for the Holy Roman Emperor Charles VI. Morte e sepoltura di Christo (sic) was one of many Sepolcro oratorios that Caldara composed for the court’s annual Lenten observance. It is scored for five soloists with an orchestra of chalumeau, two trombones and bassoon in addition to the usual strings and continuo.

The afternoon is free and dinner is independent, unless you choose to attend an optional dinner.

We gather in the evening for our concert at the Romanesque Cathedral of St James, built around the Shrine of the Apostle and ultimate destination of pilgrims.

Concert, 9.00pm: Santiago Cathedral Path of Miracles Tenebrae Nigel Short director Path of Miracles by Joby Talbot is a work based on the great pilgrimage to Santiago, commissioned by Tenebrae in 2005.

With four movements named after key destinations on the Camino Francés, the work weaves together quotations from various medieval texts in Galician with passages from the Roman liturgy, and lines of poetry from Robert Dickinson, the work’s librettist.

Santiago Cathedral is currently undergoing restoration works, and current information suggests that our concert there will not be possible. If this is still the case in September, we will use a different church.

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Dinner is arranged for everyone before the final concert. The church of the convent of Santo Domingo de Bonaval is predominantly Gothic, a rare example in Santiago, though the Romanesque apse survives. Among the Baroque embellishments are side chapels including the Pantheon of Great Galicians. Now deconsecrated, it houses the city’s ethnographic museum.

Concert, 9.00pm: Iglesia de Santo Domingo de Bonaval A Rose Magnificat Gabrieli Consort Paul McCreesh director In this new programme Paul McCreesh and the Gabrieli Consort explore the diverse and extensive body of works dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary over the centuries. Music by Tallis, Taverner, Howells and Leighton frames the world première of a work by the young British composer, Matthew Martin: a setting of the Magnificat, interpolated with verses from the atmospheric medieval poem ‘There is no rose’.

THE PROGRAMME

‘ Several of the music performances were so good as to be transformative.’

Participant on an MRT festival in 2018.

Day 5 Wednesday 2 October Homeward journey

THE FESTIVAL EXPERIENCE

FITNESS FOR THE FESTIVAL

Participation in our festivals is a very different experience from conventional group travel – no repetitive or redundant announcements, no herding by elevated umbrella, no unnecessary roll calls, little hanging around. We work on the assumption that you are adults, and our staff cultivate the virtue of unobtrusiveness.

Walking is the most convenient and in fact the only viable way of getting around Santiago and you do so at your own pace. All but one of the festival events are within a 15-minute walk of the hotels. The exception is a concert venue slightly out of the historic centre, for which we provide transport.

For those who are not averse to group activities there is an extra meal to sign up to and there are talks to attend. You choose the level of independence that suits you. Though there will be up to 170 participants, you will on occasion find yourself in smaller units: participants are divided between three hotels and different restaurants and one concert is performed to half the audience at a time.

Although distance might not pose a problem, there are hazards: paving is uneven and often cobbled, there are hills and steps to negotiate and narrow streets and squares are shared with taxis, delivery vans and motorbikes.

We provide sufficient information to enable you to navigate the festival events without needing to be led. However, festival staff are also stationed around the events to direct you if needed.

Depending on your flight option there may be further free time in Santiago. See page 14 for details of transfers and flights.

Participants need to be averagely fit and moderately nimble, able to manage everyday walking and stairclimbing without any difficulties.

If you have a medical condition or a disability which may affect your holiday or necessitate special arrangements being made for you, please discuss these with us before booking – or, if the condition develops or changes subsequently, as soon as possible before departure.

We ask that you assess your fitness before you commit to a booking, by trying the simple exercises on the booking form.

Illustration: procession in Santiago cathedral, drawing by Muirhead Bone from ‘Days in Old Spain’, 1938.

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THE MUSICIANS

MEET THE MUSICIANS

LA SERENISSIMA

JULIA DOYLE

HILARY SUMMERS

RENATA POKUPIĆ

Established in 1994, La Serenissima is recognised as the UK’s leading exponent of the music of 18th-century Venice and connected composers. Uniquely, the group’s entire repertoire is edited from manuscript or contemporary sources.

Originally from Lancaster, Julia studied Social and Political Sciences at Cambridge University before embarking on a singing career, and has since performed all over the world and become established as a specialist soprano in Baroque repertoire.

Director and violinist Adrian Chandler (above) has dedicated his life to Italian Baroque music. He has researched at Southampton University the development of the North Italian violin concerto 1690 – 1740 and subsequently held a two-year post as Turner Sims Professor. His unique combination of research, editing and performing has been recognised by twice winning the Gramophone Award for Baroque Instrumental for recording projects The French Connection (2010) and The Italian Job (2017). Photo ©fatkoala.

She regularly performs with Sir John Eliot Gardiner, the King’s Consort and the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. Her recordings include Handel’s Messiah with The Britten Sinfonia and Bach’s Magnif icat with Dunedin Consort.

Photo above ©Louise O’Dwyer.

Born in South Wales, contralto Hilary Summers studied at Reading University, the Royal Academy of Music and the National Opera studio. She has recorded over forty CDs spanning works from the early Baroque period to the present day and has sung in most of the major concert halls and opera houses of the world.

Croatian mezzo-soprano Renata Pokupić is praised for her engaging and expressive interpretation of baroque, classical and coloratura repertoire, and is much sought after by major opera houses and orchestras. She has appeared at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden in The Marriage of Figaro (Cherubino) and Faust (Siébel).

The 18/19 season sees her make her debut appearance at Teatro alla Scala, Milan singing the role of ‘Nell’ in the world première of Kurtag’s Fin de Partie. Photo above ©Claire Newman-Williams.

Photograph, right: La Serenissima ©Eric Richmond.

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An accomplished recitalist, Pokupić works regularly with the internationally acclaimed Roger Vignoles. Photo above ©Chris Gloag.

THE MUSICIANS

ROBERT MURRAY

NEAL DAVIES

Robert Murray was a Jette Parker Young Artist at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden and has sung for the Royal Opera House, English National Opera, Opera North, Garsington Opera, Welsh National Opera, Norwegian Opera, Hamburg State Opera and Salzburg Festival.

Neal Davies studied at King’s College, London and the Royal Academy of Music, and won the Lieder Prize at the 1991 Cardiff Singer of the World Competition. He has sung with the world’s leading orchestras and opera houses and appears in Charpentier’s David et Jonathas from Aix-en-Provence, which is available on DVD.

His discography includes Handel’s Saul with Harry Christophers, Berlioz’s Grande Messe des Morts with Paul McCreesh and Poulenc songs.

Photo above ©Sussie Ahlburg.

GABRIELI

EL LEÓN DE ORO

Gabrieli are world-renowned interpreters of great vocal and instrumental repertoire from the Renaissance to the present day. Formed as an early music ensemble by Paul McCreesh in 1982, Gabrieli has both outgrown and remained true to its original identity.

Over 35 years, the ensemble’s repertoire has expanded beyond any expectation, but McCreesh’s ever-questioning spirit and expressive musicianship remain constant features in the ensemble’s dynamic performances and award-winning recordings.

They have been performing in Martin Randall Festivals for 20 years.

Now in their 21st year, El León de Oro began as a small group of friends but over time has become a prize-winning Spanish ensemble, attracting critical adulation and appearing at major festivals worldwide. They perform a capella as well as with Spain’s major orchestras.

Most recently they performed Mozart’s Coronation Mass with the Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg under Leopold Hager.

In addition to the Gabrieli, Paul McCreesh has guest conducted many of the major orchestras and choirs across the globe. He Recent highlights include his has also established a strong return to the English National reputation in the opera house Opera for Ryan Wigglesworth’s and has conducted productions new commission A Winter’s at the Teatro Real Madrid, Tale and for Rodelinda, and Royal Danish Opera and Opéra to Garsington Opera for Comique. McCreesh has his David Sawer’s new opera own record label, Winged Lion, The Skating Rink. Photo above whose recordings build on his © Gerard Collett. already large catalogue with Deutsche Grammophon.

In 2014 they won the London International A Capella Choir Competition, judged by Peter Phillips who has since become their Honorary Director and guest conducts the choir on this festival. El León de Oro have performed with the Tallis Scholars at the Festival of Sacred Music in Cuenca and have recorded a CD with Peter entitled Intimate & Brilliant.

Peter Phillips has dedicated his life’s work to the research and performance of Renaissance polyphony. He founded The Tallis Scholars in 1973, with whom he has now appeared in almost 2000 concerts and made over 60 discs.

Photograph, top: Gabrieli ©Bill Knight.

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TENEBRAE Described as ‘phenomenal’ (The Times) and ‘devastatingly beautiful’ (Gramophone Magazine), award-winning choir Tenebrae is one of the world’s leading vocal ensembles, renowned for its highly-acclaimed interpretations of choral music with repertoire ranging from works of the Renaissance through to contemporary choral masterpieces.

ALUMNI OF CLARE COLLEGE CHOIR Two recordings have won BBC Music Magazine awards, their Russian Orthodox CD reached number one in the UK Specialist Classical Chart and their 2018 album of part songs from the British Isles, Music of the Spheres, received a Grammy nomination.

Tenebrae’s Director is Nigel Short (see page 5 for his biography).

Since the founding of a mixed voice choir in 1972, the Choir of Clare College has gained an international reputation as one of the world’s leading university choirs. In addition to its primary function of leading services three times a week in the College chapel, under Director of Music Graham Ross the choir keeps an active schedule recording, broadcasting, and performing.

The alumni choir perform both in special projects with the

Photograph: Tenebrae ©Sim Canetty-Clarke.

More about the concerts Private. All the concerts are planned and administered by us, and the audience consists exclusively of those who have taken one of the two festival packages.

Acoustics. This festival is more concerned with locale and authenticity than with acoustic perfection. The venues have idiosyncrasies or reverberations of the sort not found in modern concert halls.

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

Seating. Specific seats are Capacity. There will be up to not reserved. You sit where 170 participants on Sacred Music you want. Consider bringing a cushion for concerts in churches. in Santiago.

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current choir and in its own right. Recent and upcoming performances include concerts in the Royal Festival Hall with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, and recitals across the UK.

ACCOMMODATION & TRAVEL

HOTELS & PRICES

‘ The relationship between the talks by Professor John Bryan and the music we heard was close and illuminating.’

Participant on an MRT festival in 2018.

There is a choice of three hotels in Santiago; 3, 4 or 5 star. They differ in size, architecture and style and yet they share a degree of austerity that prevails in northern Spain. All are within the historic centre and walking distance of all of the festival events bar one – for which transport is provided.

The hotel is the sole determinant of the different prices for either festival package.

The prices given are all per person.

Price without flights: subtract £210.

HOTEL SAN MIGUEL

HOTEL MONUMENTO SAN FRANCISCO

PARADOR HOSTAL DE LOS REYES CATÓLICOS

A boutique hotel with 15 of 16 rooms reserved for our audience. It is in an excellent position opening onto a small square, 200 metres from the cathedral and opposite San Martín Pinario. The hotel is known for its restaurant while further public areas include a seating area and terraced garden. Décor throughout is contemporary, veering towards minimalist in bedrooms.

A spacious hotel within the imposing buildings of the still active Franciscan convent.

The conversion has been carried out with dignity and restraint, retaining much of the historic structure including the two patios and refectory.

Further facilities include a bar/ café, restaurant and indoor swimming pool.

Founded in 1499 by the Catholic Kings, Ferdinand and Isabella, and for centuries the abode of the grander pilgrims, this is one of the best-known and architecturally ambitious of the historic hotels in Spain.

Sharing one of the most monumental squares in the country with the cathedral, rector’s palace and town hall, its position is superb.

3-star

Rooms for double occupancy have twin beds (‘Superior Double’) and are at the back of the hotel overlooking the garden. Those for single occupancy either have twin beds pushed together (‘Standard double’) or are smaller with a double bed (‘Single’). They overlook the square, some with views of surrounding churches. sanmiguelsantiago.com PRICES, per person

4-star

We have reserved 54 of the 82 bedrooms. These are modern with white-washed walls, themes of brown and beige and wooden flooring. Single rooms are small with a single bed.

The hotel is 300m from the cathedral and similarly close to two other concert venues. sanfranciscohm.com PRICES, per person Double/twin Double for sole use Single room

Superior double/twin £2,380 Double for sole use £2,610 Single room £2,540

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£2,490 £2,730 £2,610

5-star

The hotel is arranged around four courtyards and the royal chapel. Further public areas include opulently furnished sitting areas, bar with terrace, reading room and restaurant.

Bedrooms are decorated with a combination of antique and modern furniture, prints and rugs. Single rooms are small with a double bed while doubles for sole use may be twin beds pushed together. parador.es PRICES, per person Junior suite £3,400 Superior twin/double £3,210 Standard twin/double £2,830 Double for sole use £3,220 Single room £3,130 13

ACCOMMODATION & TRAVEL

TRAVEL OPTIONS JOINING & LEAVING THE FESTIVAL

FLIGHT OPTIONS A return flight from the UK is included in the cost of the festival. Participants can choose to join one of these or make their own flight arrangements (in which case there is a reduction in the price).

The only direct option that we are able to book for a group is from London Heathrow to La Coruña (an hour by coach from Santiago) with Vueling.

It is also possible to travel to Santiago de Compostela, via Madrid, with Iberia.

Option 1

The no-flights option

28 September: depart London Heathrow at 20.45, arrive La Coruña 23.45 (VY 7105). Dinner is not included if you choose this f light – £60 is deducted from your f inal balance.

You can choose not to take the group flights and to make your own way to and from Santiago.

2 October: depart La Coruña 18.40, arrive London Heathrow 19.40 (VY 7104).

Option 2 28 September: depart London Heathrow at 10.40, arrive Madrid at 14.10 (IB 3175). Depart Madrid at 16.00, arrive Santiago at 17.15 (IB 3878).

2 October: depart Santiago at 13.20, arrive Madrid at 14.35 (IB 3875). Depart Madrid at 15.55, arrive London Heathrow at 17.20 (IB 3166).

Ryanair fly to Santiago from London Stansted and Easyjet from London Gatwick. See their websites for details.

If you book your own flight, you are welcome to join a coach transfer from Santiago or La Coruña airports should your fight times coincide with ours.

Pre- and post-festival tours Those on pre- and post-festival tours have different flight arrangements. In each case you can opt to make your own flight bookings and to pay the ‘no-flights’ price.

See pages 15–20.

OPTIONAL EXTRAS Extra dinner. There is the option of an additional dinner which ensures you eat in the company of other festival participants on all evenings. The price for this is £50 per person for two courses with wine.

Please tick the relevant box on the booking form.

Optional visits. John McNeill leads guided architectural visits of Santiago. Full details are published nearer the time.

Illustrations: detail from Santiago Cathedral, engraving c. 1890. Opposite: Valladolid, façade of San Gregorio, steel engraving 1851.

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Arrive a day early. Please let us know if you would like a quote for an additional hotel night before the festival starts.

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PRE- & POST- FESTIVAL TOURS

THE RENAISSANCE IN CASTILE & LEÓN A SELECTION OF MASTERPIECES

Pre-festival tour: 21–26 September 2019 (mf 731) 6 days • £1,940 Lecturer: Dr Xavier Bray Includes some of the greatest examples of Spanish Renaissance painting, sculpture and architecture.

Sculptors from across Europe executed ambitious schemes in churches, while locally-born Alonso Berruguete returned from Rome to propagate a Gothic hybrid version of Michelangelo’s style.

Differs substantially from Ancient Kingdoms of Castile & León in the concentration on smaller, lesser-visited towns.

A focus on the region’s important medieval and Baroque artistic achievements.

Lecturer Dr Xavier Bray is Director of the Wallace Collection, London, and is a specialist in Spanish art and sculpture.

ITINERARY Day 1: Valladolid. Fly at c. 9.15am from London Heathrow to Madrid and drive to Valladolid (c. 3 hours, with a stop). An introductory walk includes Nuestra Señora de las Angustias with Juan de Juni’s highly expressive Virgin of Sorrows. First of two nights in Valladolid.

Day 2: Valladolid, Paredes de Nava, Palencia. Visit the convent of Santa Ana with paintings by Goya. Alonso Berruguete was born in Paredes de Nava and the church of Santa Eulalia contains works by him and his family. Pedro Berruguete, Gil de Siloé and Simon of Cologne are all represented in Palencia cathedral.

Day 3: Valladolid, Medina de Rioseco, León. Morning visit to the Colegio de San Gregorio, now the National Museum of Sculpture, with Gil de Siloé’s intricately carved stone portal and works by all the great Renaissance masters including Berruguete. Drive from Valladolid to Medina de Rioseco, suffused with faded glory. Here see the Benavente Chapel in Santa María del Mediavilla, decorated in 1543 with coloured carvings by the brothers Juan and Jerónimo Corral, and the church of Santiago with a Churrigueresque retable. Continue to León for the first of two nights.

Day 4: León, Astorga. The morning walk includes two great medieval buildings: the royal pantheon of San Isidoro, with the greatest Romanesque frescoes to have survived, and the cathedral, with Spain’s finest stained glass. There is an excursion in the afternoon to Astorga whose cathedral has a magnificent 16th-cent. altarpiece by Gaspar de Becerra.

Day 5: Toro, Zamora. Drive south to the small town of Toro and see the superb medieval sculpture in the collegiate church.

The Romanesque cathedral on the banks of the Duero contains much of interest: beautifully carved choir, ironwork and silver. Overnight in Zamora.

Day 6. Those returning to London drive to Madrid for the flight, arriving at Heathrow at c. 4.30pm. Participants joining Sacred Music in Santiago: we can book train travel from Zamora to Santiago (c. 4 hours) and extra nights at your hotel in Santiago

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between 26 and 28 September. This would be unescorted. Contact us for a quote.

Wednesday 2 October, final day of the festival. Join flight option 2 (see page 14), arriving London Heathrow at c. 5.20pm.

PRACTICALITIES Price, per person. Two sharing: £1,940 or £1,820 without flights. Single occupancy: £2,130 or £2,010 without flights. If you choose to take f lights, you will be charged the ‘no-f lights’ price for the festival.

Included: flights (economy) with Iberia (Airbus 320); private coach; accommodation; breakfasts, 1 lunch, 4 dinners; all admissions, tips and taxes; services of the lecturer and tour manager.

Accommodation. Melia Recoletos, Valladolid (melia.com): modern 4-star hotel on the edge of the old town. Hotel Real Colegiata de San Isidoro, León (hotelrealcolegiata.es): attractive 3-star; one of the finest Romanesque buildings in Spain. Parador de Zamora (parador. es): 4-star Parador in the 15th-cent. family home of the first count of Alba de Aliste.

How strenuous? The tour involves a lot of walking in town centres, where coach access is restricted, and a lot of standing in museums and churches. Uneven ground and irregular paving are standard. Some days involve a lot of driving. Average distance by coach per day: 109 miles.

Group size: 10 –22 participants.

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ANCIENT KINGDOMS OF CASTILE & LEÓN THE MAGNIFICENT HEART OF SPAIN

Pre-festival tour: 16–25 September 2019 (mf 706) 10 days • £2,930 Lecturer: Gijs van Hensbergen Since their fusion under one crown in the eleventh century, the ancient kingdoms of Castile and León have been responsible for some of the most emblematic periods of Spanish history. These former rival territories established themselves as the heart of Spain and exerted great influence over language, religion and culture far across the medieval map. Innumerable castles were built here (hence ‘Castile’) for this was the principal battleground of the Reconquista, the five-hundred-year war of attrition against the Moors which reclaimed Spain for Christendom.

The region occupies much of the Meseta, the vast and austere plateau in the centre of the Iberian peninsula. Here are many of Spain’s finest cities, buildings and works of art. Lovers of Romanesque will feel particularly satisfied for there are many excellent examples of the style. Great Gothic churches are another magnificent feature, the cathedrals at León, Burgos, Segovia and Salamanca among them.

French, German and English influences are to be found, though the end result is always unmistakably Spanish.

Lecturer Gijs van Hensbergen is an art historian and author specialising in Spain.

His books include In the Kitchens of Castile and La Sagrada Familia. He studied Art History at the Courtauld and is a Fellow of the Cañada Blanch Centre for Contemporary Spanish Studies at the LSE.

ITINERARY Day 1: Ávila, Salamanca. Fly at c. 9.15am from London Heathrow to Madrid. Drive to Ávila: a fortress town built during the Reconquista, it retains its entire circuit of 11th-cent. walls complete with battlements and 88 turrets. The 12th-cent. Basilica of San Vicente has fine sculpture. First of two nights in Salamanca.

Day 2: Salamanca. Distinguished by the honey-coloured hue of its stone, Salamanca is one of the most attractive cities in Spain and home to its most prestigious university. See the magnificent 16th-cent. Gothic ‘New Cathedral’ and austere Romanesque ‘Old Cathedral’, the 18th-cent. Plaza Mayor and superb, elaborate Plateresque sculpture on the façades of the university and church of Another striking aspect is the wealth of San Esteban. The University has 15thbrilliant sculpture, especially of the lateand 16th-cent. quadrangles, arcaded medieval and Renaissance periods. Castles, courtyards and original lecture halls. The of course, abound, and some of the Convento de las Dueñas has a Plateresque defensive curtain of frontier cities such as portal and an irregular, two-tiered cloister. Ávila are remarkably well preserved.

Day 3: Zamora, León. On the Roman As well as the prominent cities, we include road that connected Astorga to Mérida, a number of lesser-known places, all Zamora rose to importance during strikingly attractive, many with outstanding the Reconquista as a bastion on the buildings or works of art, all barely visited Duero front. Much of its Romanesque by tourists.

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architecture survives, including the cathedral of Byzantine influence. Drive to León, former capital of the ancient kingdom and visit the monastery of San Marcos with an exuberant Plateresque façade, magnificent late-Gothic church, Renaissance chapels and fine choir-stalls.

First of two nights in León.

Day 4: León. A morning walk to some of the outstanding medieval buildings of the city. The royal pantheon of San Isidoro is one of the first, and finest, Romanesque buildings in Spain, with important sculptures. The cathedral is truly superb Rayonnant Gothic with impressive stained glass. The afternoon is free to visit the archaeological or contemporary art museums.

Day 5: San Miguel de Escalada, Lerma, Santo Domingo de Silos. The beautiful, remote church at San Miguel de Escalada displays a fusion of Visigothic and Islamic building traditions. The village of Lerma has a wealth of buildings from the early 17th cent. including an arcaded main square with ducal palace and the Collegiate church of San Pedro. Drive in the late afternoon to Santo Domingo de Silos, which has the finest Romanesque monastery in Spain, outstanding for the sculpture of the 12th-cent. cloister. First of two nights in Lerma.

Day 6: Burgos, Quintanilla de las Viñas, Covarrubias. Drive to Burgos, the early capital of Castile, whose cathedral combines French and German Gothic styles and has remarkable vaults and

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More pre- & post-festival options: Gardens & Villas of the Italian Lakes 19–25 September 2019 (mf 499) Lecturer: Steven Desmond The Venetian Hills 3–7 October 2019 (mf 774) Lecturer: Carlo Corsato Handel in London 3 October 2019 (lf 778) Lecturer: Richard Wigmore Please contact us for full details or visit www.martinrandall.com – we are happy to advise on linking these or other tours and London Days with the festival.

16th-cent. choir stalls. On the outskirts is the convent of Las Huelgas Reales with its important early Gothic church. Visit the Visigothic chapel at Quintanilla de las Viñas. Covarrubias is an attractive walled village with a medieval Colegiata containing fine tombs.

Day 7: El Burgo de Osma, San Esteban de Gormaz, Segovia. El Burgo de Osma is a walled town with arcaded streets and one of the finest Gothic cathedrals in Spain. At San Esteban de Gormaz see the 12th-cent. churches of San Miguel and Del Rivero with exterior galleries. Built on a steepsided hill, Segovia is one of the loveliest cities in Spain and architecturally one of the most richly endowed. First of three nights in Segovia.

Day 8: Segovia. Straddling the town, the remarkable Roman aqueduct is one of the biggest in Europe. See the outstanding Romanesque exteriors of San Martín, San Millán and San Esteban and the circular Templar church of La Vera Cruz. An afternoon walk includes the cathedral, a soaring Gothic structure, and the restored Alcázar (castle), dramatically perched at the prow of the hill.

Day 9: El Escorial, La Granja. This vast retreat-cum-palace-cum-monasterycum-pantheon was built from 1563 to 1584 for Philip II, successfully embodying his instructions for ‘nobility without arrogance, majesty without ostentation, severity in the whole’. Continue to La Granja de San Ildefonso, the palace constructed for Philip V in the early 18th cent., with magnificent formal gardens.

Day 10: Segovia. Free morning; suggestions include the contemporary art museum of Esteban Vicente and the Museum of Segovia. Fly from Madrid, arriving at London Heathrow at c. 6.30pm.

Participants joining Sacred Music in Santiago: for the period between 25 and 28 September we can book hotel nights for you in Segovia, Madrid or Santiago and train travel between Segovia/ Madrid and Santiago (c. 5 hours). These arrangements would be unescorted.

Contact us for a quote.

Wednesday 2 October, final day of the festival. Join flight option 2 (see page 14), arriving at London Heathrow at c. 5.20pm.

PRACTICALITIES Price for this tour, per person. Two sharing: £2,930 or £2,800 without flights.

Single occupancy: £3,250 or £3,120 without flights. If you choose to take f lights as part of this tour, you will be charged the ‘no-f lights’ price for the festival.

Accommodation. NH Palacio de Castellanos, Salamanca (nh-hotels.com): attractive 4-star hotel in a converted palace, close to the Cathedrals and other key sites. Hotel Real Colegiata, León (hotelrealcolegiata.es): attractive 3-star hotel occupying one of the first and finest Romanesque buildings in Spain. Parador de Lerma (parador.es): 4-star parador in the Ducal Palace. Hotel Real Segovia, Segovia (hotelrealsegovia.com): 4-star hotel located next to the cathedral and the aqueduct. Single rooms are doubles for sole use throughout.

How strenuous? This is a long tour with a lot of walking in town centres, some of it on cobbled streets and uphill. It should not be undertaken by anyone who has difficulty with everyday walking and stairclimbing. Average distance by coach per day: 73 miles. Dinners tend to be at 8.30 or 9.00pm in Spain, so you might get to bed later than you would usually.

Group size: 10 –22 participants.

Included: outbound flights (economy class) with Iberia (aircraft: Airbus A320 ); travel by private coach; hotel accommodation; breakfasts, 6 dinners and 1 lunch with wine or beer, soft drinks, water and coffee; all admissions; all tips; all taxes; the services of the lecturer and tour manager.

Illustration: Segovia, the Roman aqueduct, watercolour by Frank Brangwyn, publ. 1915.

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WALKING TO SANTIAGO ON FOOT FOR SECTIONS OF THE PILGRIMS’ WAY

Pre-festival tour: 17–28 September 2019 (mf 672) 12 days • £3,540 – f lights not included Lecturer: Dr Rose Walker Still one of the most splendid walking routes in Europe, the Camino de Santiago runs almost 500 miles across northern Spain to the supposed tomb of St James, Sant Iago. Normally, the journey takes a month on foot. We are setting out to walk the highlights in 12 days, taking in the most historically charged and beautiful sections.

Asceticism is not a necessary ingredient.

Instead of staying in bunk beds in pilgrim hostels we repose in hotels, ranging from workaday to some of Spain’s finest. We carry only our own day sacks while the luggage moves by road. We eat well, often picnicking in deep country, and try some of the fine wines grown along the route. But as with all pilgrimages this is a linear walk, involving a new hotel each night except on two rest days.

We are like pilgrims, rather than tourists, visiting monuments along the route and what time and tiredness allow at the end of the day’s walking. There will be interpretative commentary by the lecturer and an introduction to the major buildings. But the experience of walking the camino is what is essentially on offer, along a route which has for centuries compelled the imagination.

Lecturer Dr Rose Walker is a specialist in medieval Spain. She was Academic Registrar and Deputy Secretary of The Courtauld before deciding to pursue a second career as an art historian.

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ITINERARY Day 1: Biarritz to Roncesvalles. Leave from Biarritz Airport following the arrival of the recommended flight from London Gatwick (Easyjet, currently 4.00pm). Drive to Roncesvalles for the night.

Day 2: Roncesvalles to Lintzoaín/Erro: 14.7 km, c. 4 hours. Weather permitting, we start at the summit of the pass and drop down on foot to Roncesvalles, traditional starting point of the pilgrimage in Spain. It has a fine collegiate church preserving memories of Sancho the Strong of Navarre. From here, walk downward through rustic, gentle sub-Pyrenean landscape and stately stone-built villages.

Overnight Haro.

Day 3: Nájera to Santo Domingo de la Calzada: 21 km, c. 5 hours. Drive to Nájera, another of the burial places of the royal house of Navarre. Climb through red sandstone with vines in rocky corners, through varied irrigated crops and out into rolling wheat country with mountains lying north and south – this is a good day for striding out. Lunch is in a village café.

Continue to Santo Domingo de la Calzada where there is time to visit the cathedral.

Overnight Santo Domingo.

Day 4: Villafranca Montes de Oca to Agés: c. 16 km, c. 4 hours. Begin with an hour’s walk uphill into mildly mountainous country, passing a disturbing monument to victims of Civil War assassination. Cross a plateau and continue through pine and

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oak forest to a beautiful valley enclosing the monastery of San Juan de Ortega (fine Gothic church). Picnic in the woods.

Continue to the village of Agés. Drive to Burgos for the first of two nights.

Day 5: Burgos, rest day. Rest, nurse feet and loiter in this Castilian city rich in memories of El Cid and medieval pilgrimage, Wellington and Franco.

There is time to see the magnificent cathedral, the charterhouse of Miraflores (superb sculpture by Gil de Siloé), and the monastery of Las Huelgas (fine architecture and images relevant to the camino). Overnight Burgos.

Day 6: Rabé de las Calzadas to Hontanas, c. 19 km, c. 4 hours. A fine if strenuous walk, swinging through hills with an upland feel, plenty of skylarks, wide views, scant shade and stone built villages. There are three manageable climbs, each one shorter than the last. Drive to nearby Castrojeriz for lunch and then to León with its fine Gothic cathedral and Spain’s finest stained glass. Overnight León.

Day 7: Hospital de Orbigo to Astorga: c. 16 km, c. 5 hours. About an hour into the walk, we make a modest ascent and suddenly the plains are over. There are 2–3 small climbs through remote-feeling countryside and wheat fields ending in shady corners under small oaks. We finish just outside Astorga, with views down to the cathedral. Continue into town by coach. Here, the bishop’s palace was designed by Gaudí and there is a charming town hall. Overnight Astorga.

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‘ The walking locations were excellent.

Well-chosen, diverse sections and a good sampling of the overall Camino experience.’

Previous participant on Walking to Santiago

Day 8: Foncebadón to Acebo: 11 km, c. 4 hours. From the charming village of Foncebadón with its reticulated slate roofs and crooked balconies, climb to the highest point of the Camino, with spectacular views. Lunch in a pilgrim’s restaurant in Acebo. Drive from here to Villafranca del Bierzo for the night.

Day 9: Triacastela to Sarriá: c. 18.5 km, c. 5½ hours. Drive to Triacastela via O Cebreiro, first port of call in Galicia for pilgrims, with Celtic buildings and an ancient church. The walk starts low and climbs through Galician-green valley and into country of tiny hamlets where cows chew the cud in dark medieval sheds.

Sunken tracks, ferns and ivy abound and there is later a fine upland feel. After lunch in a bar en route we begin a slow descent to Sarriá. Overnight Sarriá.

Day 10. Phase 1, Sarriá to Ferreiros: c. 13 km, c. 4 hours. Phase 2, Monte del Gozo to Santiago de Compostela: c. 4 km, c.

2 hours. Walk from Sarriá to Ferreiros and have lunch in a bar before driving on to Monte del Gozo. Here pilgrims once fell to their knees at the first view of the cathedral spires of Santiago (harder to see now through eucalyptus). Walk a further 4 km through suburbs into increasingly ancient city centre and right into the Parador, another important and beautiful historic building. First of two nights in Santiago de Compostela.

Illustration: Burgos, cathedral, Constable Chapel, engraving c. 1850.

Day 11: Santiago. Visit the cathedral, a Romanesque masterpiece with a magnificent carved portal. Time is allowed for those who wish to attend Pilgrim’s mass at midday. The rest of the day is free.

Day 12. Participants combining the tour with the festival: free day before dinner with other festival participants. We recommend that you elect to stay at the Parador during the festival, in order to avoid changing hotels. Those not joining the festival drive to the airport in time for the recommended flight to London Gatwick (Easyjet, currently departing c. 10.15am).

Wednesday 2 October, final day of the festival. Drive to Santiago Airport in time for the recommended flight to London Gatwick (Easyjet, currently departing c. 10.15am).

PRACTICALITIES Price, per person. Two sharing: £3,540.

Single occupancy: £3,980. Note that f lights are not included in the price, whether you are combining with the festival or not.

Included: airport transfers on days 1 & 12 (flights are not included); accommodation; breakfasts, 8 lunches (2 are picnics), 8 dinners, with wine, water, coffee; all admissions; all tips; the services of the lecturer and tour manager.

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a converted convent. Parador de Santo Domingo de la Calzada (parador.es): 4-star parador, former medieval pilgrim hospital. NH Collection Palacio de Burgos (nh-collection.com): 4-star in a converted palace. Hotel Real Colegiata de San Isidoro, León (hotelrealcolegiata. es): attractive 3-star occupying one of the first and finest Romanesque buildings in Spain. Hotel Spa Ciudad de Astorga (hotelciudaddeastorga.com): modern 4-star in the centre. Parador de Villafranca del Bierzo (parador.es): 4-star parador in a contemporary building. Hotel Alfonso IX, Sarriá (alfonsoix.com): modern 4-star hotel near the river. Parador de Santiago de Compostela (parador.es): 5-star parador in the former pilgrims’ hospital.

How strenuous? This is our most strenuous walking tour. We cover up to 134 km of the full 780 km pilgrimage route with an average of 17 km of walking per day, on 8 of the 12 days. Terrain is moderate in difficulty, but the durations and cumulative effects of walking every day make it a strenuous tour. It is essential that you are in good physical condition and to be used to country walking with uphill and downhill content. Strong knees are essential, as are a pair of well-worn hiking boots with good ankle support. Safety and comfort are our main concern and while there are opportunities to retire, the coach is intended as back-up rather than an alternative means of transport.

Group size: 8–18 participants.

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ART IN MADRID THE GREAT GALLERIES

Post-festival tour: 2– 6 October 2019 (mf 772) 5 days • £2,090 Lecturer: Gail Turner Day 2. Start with a first visit to the Prado Two visits to the Prado plus the ThyssenBornemisza Collection and the Reina Sofía, Museum, which is among the world’s greatest art galleries, concentrating on the home to Picasso’s Guernica.

Spanish school. In the afternoon visit the Lázaro Galdiano Museum with works by Lesser-known places include the Sorolla El Greco, Goya and Murillo and then the Museum, Archaeological Museum and Goya frescoes at San Antonio de la Florida. Sorolla Museum, in the charming house of the eponymous Impressionist painter.

Led by Gail Turner, an art historian, Day 3. Morning visit to the Royal lecturer and artist with a special interest in Spanish history and art. She has worked Tapestry Factory, founded in 1721

by Phillip V with designs by Goya, many as a consultant for Christie’s and at the of which are still reproduced today.

Courtauld, and lectures for the National Continue to the Royal Academy of Fine Trust and the Art Fund.

Arts, home to works by Goya, Zurbarán, Ribera and Murillo. The afternoon is spent ITINERARY at the Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection, Saturday 28 September, first day of Sacred housed in the 18th-century Palacio de Villahermosa, one of the world’s largest Music in Santiago: join flight option 2 (see page 14), London Heathrow to Santiago de private art collections until its purchase by the Spanish state in 1993.

Compostela, via Madrid, at c. 10.40am.

Day 1, Wednesday 2nd October. Fly unaccompanied from Santiago to Madrid at 9.20am. You are met by the tour manager at the airport and taken for a tapas lunch in Madrid before joining participants arriving from London. (Those who are not combining with the festival f ly at c. 9.15am from Heathrow to Madrid with Iberia Airlines).

Begin at the Archaeological Museum, good on ancient Iberian civilisation and Roman Spain. Settle into the hotel before dinner.

Illustration: Madrid, 20th-century watercolour.

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Day 4. Travel by coach to the church of San Antonio de la Florida, with fine Goya frescoes, before returning to the Prado, this time primarily to see the Italian and Netherlandish schools. The afternoon is free to allow for temporary exhibitions (details nearer the time) or a visit to the 18th-century Royal Palace.

Day 5. Walk via Herzog & de Meuron’s CaixaForum to the Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, one of the greatest modern art museums and home to Picasso’s Guernica plus works by Miró, Dalí and Tàpies. Fly to London Heathrow, arriving c. 6.30pm.

PRACTICALITIES Price, per person. Two sharing: £2,090 or £1,900 without international flights. Single occupancy: £2,420 or £2,230 without international flights. If you choose to take f lights as part of this tour, you will be charged the ‘no-f lights’ price for the festival.

Included: international flights (economy class) with Iberia Airlines (Airbus A321); domestic flight from Santiago to Madrid; private coach for transfers and excursions; accommodation; breakfasts, 1 tapas lunch, 3 dinners with wine or beer, soft drinks, water, coffee or tea; all admissions; all tips; all taxes; the services of the lecturer and tour manager.

(Price, if not joining the festival. Two sharing: £1,940; £1,750 without f lights. Single occupancy: £2,270; £2,080 without f lights.)

Accommodation. NH Collection Palacio de Tepa, Madrid (nh-collection. com): small, excellently-located 5-star hotel. Rooms are comfortable and décor is contemporary.

How strenuous? The tour involves a lot of walking and standing in museums (which can be more tiring than moving around).

A good level of fitness is essential. You will be on your feet for long stretches of time.

Group size: 9–19 participants.

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If we cancel. We may decide to cancel the festival or tour if there were insufficient bookings for it to be viable (though this would always be more than eight weeks before departure). We would refund you with everything you had paid us.

Safety and security. Cancellation may also occur if civil unrest, war, natural disaster or other circumstances amounting to force majeure arise in the region to which the festival or tour was due to go. If the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office advises against travel, we would either cancel or adjust the itinerary to avoid risky areas. We would also treat sympathetically a wish to withdraw from a tour or festival to a troubled region even if the FCO does not advise against travel there. In the event of cancellation before departure we would give you a full refund; costs incurred due to curtailment after departure should be covered by your individual insurance policy.

Health and safety. We subscribe to the health and safety legislation of Spain. The generally high standards of the UK are not found everywhere; regulations may diverge in particular in the areas of accessibility, handrails and seatbelts. However, with rare exceptions, all the hotels we use have undergone a safety audit, by our staff or by independent consultants on our behalf.

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

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

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Financial protection. Any money you have paid to us for a tour or festival which includes an international flight is protected by our Air Travel Organiser’s Licence (ATOL, number 3622). Payments for tours or festivals which do not include a flight from/to the UK are protected by ABTA – The Travel Association. So, in the (highly unlikely) event of our insolvency before departure, you would get your money back, or if we failed after the tour or festival had begun, it would be able to continue and you would be returned to the UK at its conclusion. Clients living elsewhere who have arranged their own flights should ensure their personal travel insurance covers repatriation in the event of holiday supplier failure.

Financial protection: the official text. We are required to publish the following. We provide full financial protection for our package holidays which include international flights, by way of our Air Travel Organiser’s Licence number 3622. When you buy an ATOL protected flight inclusive holiday from us you receive an ATOL Certificate.

This lists what is financially protected, where you can get information on what this means for you and who to contact if things go wrong. Most of our flights and flightinclusive holidays on our website and in our brochure are financially protected by the ATOL scheme. But ATOL protection does not apply to all holiday and travel services listed. Please ask us to confirm what protection may apply to your booking. If you do not receive an ATOL Certificate then the booking will not be ATOL protected.

If you do receive an ATOL Certificate but all the parts of your trip are not listed on it, those parts will not be ATOL protected. In order to be protected under the ATOL scheme you need to be in the UK when you make your booking and/or one of the flights you take must originate or terminate in the UK with the group.

We provide full financial protection for our package holidays that do not include a flight, by way of a bond held

by ABTA The Travel Association.

We will provide you with the services listed on the ATOL Certificate (or a suitable alternative). In some cases, where we aren’t able do so for reasons of insolvency, an alternative ATOL holder may provide you with the services you have bought or a suitable alternative (at no extra cost to you). You agree to accept that in those circumstances the alternative ATOL holder will perform those obligations and you agree to pay any money outstanding to be paid by you under your contract to that alternative ATOL holder. However, you also agree that in some cases it will not be possible to appoint an alternative ATOL holder, in which case you will be entitled to make a claim under the ATOL scheme (or your credit card issuer where applicable). If we, or the suppliers identified on your ATOL certificate, are unable to provide the services listed (or a suitable alternative, through an alternative ATOL holder or otherwise) for reasons of insolvency, the Trustees of the Air Travel Trust may make a payment to (or confer a benefit on) you under the ATOL scheme.

You agree that in return for such a payment or benefit you assign absolutely to those Trustees any claims which you have or may have arising out of or relating to the nonprovision of the services, including any claim against us (or your credit card issuer where applicable). You also agree that any such claims maybe re-assigned to another body, if that other body has paid sums you have claimed under the ATOL scheme.

English Law. These conditions form part of your contract with Martin Randall Travel Ltd and are governed by English law. All proceedings shall be within the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of England and Wales.

Privacy. By signing the booking form you are stating that you have read and agree to our Privacy Policy, which can be found online at www.martinrandall.com/privacy.

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is Britain’s leading specialist in cultural travel and one of the most respected tour operators in the world.

MRT aims to produce the best planned, best led and altogether the most fulfilling and enjoyable cultural tours and events available. They focus on art, architecture, archaeology, history, music and gastronomy, and are spread across Britain, continental Europe, the Middle East, North Africa, India, China, Japan and the Americas.

Each year there are about 250 expert-led tours for small groups (usually 10 –20 participants), six or seven music festivals, a dozen music and history weekends in the UK and over 100 single-day events in London.

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Festivals in 2020: MUSIC ALONG THE RHINE MUSIC IN LOIRE CHÂTEAUX DANUBE BEETHOVEN FESTIVAL MUSIC IN VENICE

For 30 years the company has led the field through incessant innovation and improvement, setting the benchmarks for itinerary planning, operational systems and service standards.

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