MUSIC IN GERMANY , LEIPZIG & BERLIN

MAY 6-21, 2019 TOUR LEADER: DR ROSAMUND BARTLETT

The ’s production of ’s Tannhäuser MUSIC IN GERMANY Overview MUNICH, LEIPZIG & BERLIN Music lies at the very heart of German identity and cultural expression and Tour dates: May 6-21, 2019 over the centuries German musicians have made an unrivalled contribution to the western tradition. German composers and performers Tour leader: Dr Rosamund Bartlett enjoy a worldwide renown and talented musicians from abroad flock to Germany for the outstanding quality and vibrancy of the music scene.

Tour Price: $10,375 per person, twin share Orchestras and opera companies play a pivotal role and are supported by audiences and the state alike in a way that others can only dream about. Single Supplement: $2,450 for sole use of Main cities have not just one, but sometimes two or three major orchestras double room and opera houses. Performances are well attended and feature not just ‘classics’ from the standard repertoire but a constant roster of Booking deposit: $500 per person contemporary pieces and rediscovered works from the past.

Recommended airline: Qatar Airlines Academy Travel is once again delighted to offer a musical journey to Germany, with extended stays in three of its main music cities – Munich, Maximum places: 20 Leipzig and Berlin. 10 performances of orchestral music and opera are included, exploring the core of the German repertoire and featuring a line- up of top-flight artists. There are excursions to Bayreuth and Dresden, Itinerary: Munich (5 nights), Leipzig (3 nights), both important for their musical traditions, visits to galleries and music- Berlin (7 nights) themed sightseeing. Date published: December 12, 2019 Your tour leader

Dr Rosamund Bartlett is a cultural historian with a particular interest in European Modernism, and in opera. She completed her doctorate at Oxford and pursued an academic career for 15 years before becoming a full-time writer and translator. During this time, she served on the Council of the Royal Musical Association and organised several international music conferences which included collaborations with the University Musical Society in Ann Arbor, Michigan, the Borodin String Quartet, and Oxford Contemporary Music. She maintains an active scholarly profile and is currently an Honorary Associate in the School of Languages and Cultures at the University of Sydney. Her opera research has been supported by the British Academy and a Fernand Braudel Fellowship at the European University Institute in Florence.

She is the author and editor of several books, including Wagner and Russia, and Shostakovich in Context. As well as contributing to Enquiries and publications such as the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, bookings she has written articles for the Royal Opera House, La Monnaie and Opera Australia. She has taken part in broadcasts for BBC Radio 3 and For further information and to been asked to give pre-concert talks including for , the London secure a place on this tour Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Oxford Lieder Festival. In 2017 she was please contact Rebecca commissioned to translate the original libretto of Shostakovich’s Lady Fussell at Academy Travel on Macbeth for the Festival. She speaks several languages and has 9235 0023 or 1800 639 699 been travelling to Germany since she was a teenager, when she was an (outside Sydney) or email exchange student in Munich. She has extensive experience leading tours [email protected]. throughout Europe. au

Performance Program

We are delighted to present a varied program of masterpieces of the Austro-German repertoire from Bach to Mahler. Performances by some of Germany’s leading orchestras feature outstanding soloists and conductors. Operatic productions feature Australian artists, including conductor Simone Young and director Barry Kosky.

MUNICH  The Academy of St Martin-in-the-Fields with violinists Julia Fischer and Augustin Hadelich, playing Bach, Schnittke and Dvořák  Wagner’s opera Tannhäuser at the Bavarian State Opera, conducted by Simone Young and starring Klaus Florian Vogt, Ludovic Tezier and Lise Davidsen  Mahler’s Symphony No 1, ‘Titan’, and ’s concerto with violinist Leonidas Kavakos and the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by

LEIPZIG  ’s and Brahms’s Symphony No 4, with the Central German Symphony Orchestra and violinist Carolin Widmann  Andris Nelsons conducting the Gewandhaus Orchestra in Buckner’s Symphony No 5

BERLIN  Daniel Barenboim conducting the Staatskapelle Berlin and playing in Mozart’s No 27 and star mezzo-soprano Anita Rachvelishvili in Prokofiev’s Alexander Nevsky cantata  Barry Kosky’s production of Puccini’s La bohème for the Komische Oper  Vladimir Jurowski conducting the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra in ’s violin concerto and Beethoven’s Symphony No 6, ‘Pastoral’  The Orchestra conducted by and with Yefim Bronfman, playing Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No 2 and Swedish composer William Stenhammar’s masterpiece of 1915, Symphony No 2  Osmo Vänskä conducting the Deutsches Symphony Orchestra Berlin in Barber, Copeland and Sibelius’s Symphony No 4

The Austro-German repertoire is explored thoroughly on this tour. Clockwise from top left: Schumann, Beethoven, Wagner, Mendelssohn, Brahms, Mozart, Mahler and Bach

Detailed itinerary

Included meals are shown with the symbols B, L and D.

Tour start & finish time

The tour begins at 6.00pm in Munich on Monday 6 May, at the Platzl Hotel.

The tour ends after breakfast in Berlin on Tuesday 21 May.

Monday 6 May Arrive Munich The tour commences at the hotel in Munich at 6pm. Meet your tour leader and fellow travellers in the lobby of the hotel for introductions and drinks followed by dinner in the hotel. Overnight Munich (D)

Tuesday 7 May Nymphenburg Palace

Above: the historic centre of Munich This morning we explore Munich with a guided walking tour through the city centre. In the afternoon we travel a short distance to Nymphenburg, summer residence of the Bavarian monarchs and visit the commanding baroque palace and Below: star German violinist Julia Fischer appears with the Academy expansive landscaped gardens. This evening we gather for a of St Martin-in-the-Fields welcome dinner at a well-known Munich restaurant. Overnight Munich (B, D)

Wednesday 8 May Fine art in Munich – Academy of St Martin-in-the-fields We start today with a visit to the Alte Pinakothek which holds one of the most significant art collections in the world. Among the European masterpieces on view are paintings by Dürer, Titian, Rembrandt, Leonardo da Vinci, Rubens and Murillo. After free time for lunch we continue to the Pinakothek der Moderne, home to four outstanding museums under one cupola-topped roof: art, graphic art, architecture, and design. Our opening concert is with the renowned Academy of St Martin-in-the-fields, founded by Sir in 1959. The program includes Bach’s concerto for two , a masterpiece of the German baroque repertoire. Overnight Munich (B)

Performance details Venue: Gasteig, Munich Program: JS Bach, Concerto for two violins, strings and basso continuo BWV1043; Alfred Schnittke Concerto grosson No 1 for two violins, harpsichord, piano and string orchestra; Antonin Dvorak Serenade for String Orchestra in E major, op.22 Performers: Academy of St Martin-in-the-fields, Julia Fischer and Augustin Hadelich (violins) Thursday 9 May Lenbachhaus – Tannhauser

In the middle of the 19th century, Munich was one of the most important art centres in Europe, and in the 1880s, Lenbach was one of the most famous artists in Germany. Today Lenbachhaus is home to the stunning collection of art from the early 20th- century Der Blaue Reiter (Blue Rider) group: Kandinsky, Klee, Jawlensky, Macke, Marc, and Münter. Tonight, we head to the National Theatre in Munich, arguably Germany’s leading opera house, to hear a key work of the German romantic repertoire. Richard Wagner’s Tannhäuser premiered in Dresden in 1845, with a plot based on medieval German legends, but presented in a radical, sexually exploratory way through Wagner’s music and lyrics. Australian conductor Simone Young leads the ensemble. Overnight Munich (B)

Performance details Venue: National Theatre Munich – Bavarian State Opera Program: Wagner’s Tannhäuser Performers: Bavarian State Opera, Simone Young (conductor), Klaus Florian Vogt (Tannhäuser), Ludovic Tezier (Wolfram), Lise Davidsen (Elisabeth)

Friday 10 May At Leisure – Bavarian Radio Symphony Today is at leisure in Munich. Your tour leader will recommend possible sightseeing options. Tonight’s concert with Munich’s leading orchestra, the Bavarian Radio Symphony, features Gustav Mahler’s ground-breaking Symphony No 1, a harbinger of so many of this symphonist’s later works. Overnight Munich (B)

Performance details Venue: Gasteig, Munich Program: Alban Berg Concerto for Violin and Orchestra; Mahler Symphony No 1 in D major 'Titan' Performers: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Daniel Harding (conductor), Leonidas Kavakos (violin) Top: Franz Marc at the Lenbachhaus, Munich Above: young Norwegian soprano Lise Davidsen appears in leading Saturday 11 May opera houses around the world, specialising in Wagner and Strauss roles

To Leipzig – Leipzig MDR Below: Wagner’s Villa Wahnfried in Bayreuth. The composer’s former symphony Orchestra home is today an excellent museum

This morning we depart for Bayreuth, an elegant provincial city where Wagner chose to build his Festspielhaus, a theatre specifically designed to house his great music dramas. We visit Wahnfried, the villa built for him by King Ludwig, also known as the Richard Wagner Museum. After a break for lunch, we continue to Leipzig. In the first of two concerts at the Gewandhaus concert hall, the Leipzig-based MDR Symphony Orchestra plays two cornerstones of 19th-century German orchestral music, Schumann’s Violin Concerto and Brahms’s Symphony No 4. Overnight Leipzig (B, L)

Performance details Venue: Gewandhaus, Leipzig Program: Charles Ives Three places in New England; Robert Schumann Concerto for violin and orchestra in D Major; Symphony No 4 in E major, op.98 Performers: Leipzig MDR Symphony Orchestra, Markus Poschner (conductor), Carolin Widmann (violin)

Sunday 12 May Bach & Mendelssohn museums – Gewandhaus concert A leisurely stroll takes us to the Gewandhaus for a morning concert conducted by Andris Nelsons in the great hall, noted for its fine acoustics. Following the performance, we visit the house where lived from 1845 until his death in 1847. Now a museum, we visit the carefully restored apartment Above: Electrifying conductor Andris Nelsons, one of today’s most sought-after classical artists furnished in late Biedermeier style and see his music salon Below: Dresden’s historic Frauenkirche, miraculously reconstructed which is still in use for concerts today. This afternoon we visit after the destruction of the city in World War II the Thomaskirche where J.S Bach worked and the adjoining Bottom: Mezzo-soprano Anita Rachvelishvili, one of the great voices Bach Museum, celebrating the composer’s life and legacy and of the current scene housing a display of his original manuscripts. In today’s matinee concert, celebrated Latvian conductor Andris Nelsons, currently music director of both the Boston Symphony and the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, leads a performance of Anton Bruckner’s Symphony No 5, a monumental and complex work written in 1876 but first heard in 1894. Dinner this evening is at Auerbachs Kellar, frequented by Goethe and immortalised in Faust. Overnight Leipzig (B, D)

Performance details Venue: Gewandhaus, Leipzig Program: Bruckner’s Symphony No 5 Performers: Gewandhaus Orchestra, Andris Nelsons (conductor)

Monday 13 May Day trip to Dresden We drive to Dresden today where our touring begins with the Old Masters Gallery, located in the Zwinger Palace and containing European works from the Renaissance to the 18th century. We continue to the Frauenkirche, the monumental 18th-century church destroyed in the devastating air raids of World War II, restored and re-opened in 2005. Overnight Leipzig (B)

Tuesday 14 May TO berlin – Berlin Staatskapelle Today we travel to Berlin, one of the most interesting and diverse of all the great capitals of Europe, with a rich and complex history where we spend the next seven nights. On arrival we take a brief orientation walk of the central Mitte district. Our concert program in Berlin kicks off with an outstanding event at the Philharmonie concert hall. Renowned musician Daniel Barenboim plays and conducts Mozart’s moving final piano concerto, No 27 in B-flat major. After interval mezzo-soprano Anita Rachvelishvili, one of today’s leading singers, joins Barenboim and the orchestra for Prokofiev’s wonderful Alexander Nevsky cantata. Overnight Berlin (B)

Performance details Venue: Philharmonie, Berlin Program: Nikos Skalkottas, Small suite for string orchestra; Mozart Piano concerto No 27 in B flat major K595; Prokofiev Alexander Nevsky, cantata for mezzo-soprano, chorus and orchestra Performers: Staatskapelle Berlin, chorus of the Staatsoper Unter den Linden Berlin, Daniel Barenboim (conductor & piano) Anita Rachvelishvili (mezzo soprano)

Wednesday 15 May Gemäldegalerie – La Boheme This morning we visit the stunning Gemäldegalerie. Assembled in the early 19th century, the gallery’s collection represents all the major schools of European painting and includes masterpieces by Botticelli, Raphael, Caravaggio, Breughel, Vermeer and Rembrandt. Berlin’s Komische Oper, currently under the artistic direction of Australian Barry Kosky, enjoys a fine reputation for verve and originality. In a break from the German repertoire, tonight we enjoy Kosky’s well-regarded production of an operatic staple, Puccini’s La Bohème. Overnight Berlin (B)

Performance details Venue: Komische Oper Berlin Program: Puccini’s La bohème (Barry Kosky production) Performers: Komische Oper, Jordan de Souza (conductor), Heather Engbretson (Mimi), Vera-Lotte Bocker (Musetta), Jonathan Tetelman (Rodolfo) Gunther Papedell (Marcello)

Thursday 16 May Museum Island – Berlin Radio Symphony On the site of one of Berlin's two original settlements, this unique complex of five state museums is a UNESCO World Heritage site and a must-visit in Berlin. Today we visit the Alte Museum, which houses an impressive collection of Greek and Roman antiquities, and the Bode Museum’s large collection of sculpture. Tonight, at the charming Konzerthaus, Russian maestro Vladimir Jurowski (for many years artistic director of the London Philharmonic Orchestra) leads a performance of key German works – Mendelssohn, Richard Strauss and Beethoven. Overnight Berlin (B)

Performance details Venue: Konzerthaus, Berlin Program: Mendelssohn 'The Hebrides' overture op.26; Richard Strauss, Concerto for violin and orchestra in D major op.8; Beethoven Symphony No 6 in F major 'Pastorale' Performers: Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, Vladimir Jurowski (conductor), Alina Ibragimova (violin)

Images right: a moment from Act II of Barry Kosky’s production of La bohème; and the auditorium of the Komische Oper; Vladimir Jurowski

Friday 17 May At Leisure

– Berlin Philharmonic Today is at leisure in Berlin. You may wish to return to Museum Island and perhaps visit the Pergamon Museum or one of Berlin’s many other attractions. In what is sure to be a musical highlight of the tour, tonight we hear the Berlin Philharmonic and pianist Yefim Bronfman playing Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No 2. After interval Swedish-American conductor Herbert Blomstedt introduces us to William Stenhammer’s Symphony No 2. Written in 1915 this remarkable work is considered the composer’s masterpiece. Overnight Berlin (B)

Performance details Venue: Philharmonie, Berlin Program: Beethoven, Piano Concerto No 2 in B Flat major op.19; William Stenhammar, Symphony No 2 in G minor, op.34 (1915) Performers: Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Herbert Blomstedt (conductor), Yefim Bronfman (piano)

Saturday 18 May Potsdam Today we travel to nearby Potsdam, to investigate court life at the time of Frederick the Great. Potsdam was the capital of the state of Brandenburg and a former royal city. We visit the splendid rococo palace of Sanssouci, which Frederick made his main residence. Overnight Berlin (B)

Sunday 19 May Charlottenburg – Deutsches Symphony We depart by coach to Charlottenburg, where we visit the Berggruen Museum with its exceptional collection of modern art including works by Matisse, Klee and Giacometti. After lunch we take a guided tour of the richly decorated interiors of the Palace of Charlottenburg, constructed between 1695 and 1713 as a summer home for Sophie Charlotte, wife of Elector Friedrich III of Prussia. Our final performance sees the excellent Deutsches Symphony Orchestra Berlin under the exceptional Finnish conductor Osmo Vänskä in a program culminating with Sibelius’s Symphony No 4. Overnight Berlin (B)

Performance details Venue: Philharmonie, Berlin Program: Samuel Barber, First Symphony, op.9; Aaron Copeland, Clarinet Concerto; Jean Sibelius, Symphony No 4 in A minor, op.63 Performers: Deutsches Symphony Orchestra Berlin, Osmo Vanska (conductor), Martin Fröst (clarinet)

Images left: The Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra; Sanssouci in Potsdam; and Finnish conducting legend Osmo Vänskä

Monday 20 May Farewell to Berlin

This morning we begin with a visit to the German History Museum, a magnificent baroque structure extensively refurbished by I.M. Pei. The permanent exhibition showcases 1500 years if German History form the Middle Ages to the Fall of the Berlin Wall. Our time in Berlin culminates with a farewell lunch atop the Reichstag, seat of the German parliament. This building symbolises the struggles and eventual triumph of the city. First opened in 1894, destroyed by fire in 1933, the Reichstag became the first meeting place of a reunified Germany. The reconstruction of the building was completed in 1999 to a plan by British architect Sir Norman Foster. His plan included an extraordinary glass dome at the top of the building, offering 360° views of the surrounding city. Overnight Berlin (B, L)

Tuesday 21 May Departure The tour ends after breakfast. Departing group members transfer to Berlin airport for outgoing flights. (B) Above: the gardens and palace at Charlottenburg, commissioned in the 17th century by Sophie Charlotte, wife of Friedrich III

Below: Sir Norman Foster’s cupola of the Reichstag Building in Berlin

Hotels

These fine four- and five-star hotels have been selected principally for their central location.

 Munich, Platzl Hotel (5 nights) www.platzl.de/en

 Leipzig, Steigenberger Grandhotel Handelshof (3 nights) www.Steigenberger.com/en/leipzig

 Berlin, The Westin Grand (7 nights) www.westingrandberlin.com

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The tour price is $10,375 per person, twin share (land content of THIS tour only). The supplement for a single room is $2,450 per person. A non-refundable deposit of $500 per person is required to GRADE TWO secure a place on the tour. It is important both for you and for your fellow travellers that you are fit enough to be able to enjoy all the activities on this Tour Inclusions tour. To give you an indication of the level of physical fitness required to participate on our tours, we have given them a Included in the tour price star grading. Academy Travel’s tours tend to feature extended walking tours and site visits, which require greater  All accommodation in selected 4-star hotels fitness than coach touring. We ask you to carefully consider  Breakfasts daily, plus meals as noted in the itinerary your ability to meet the physical demands of the tour.  Land travel by air-conditioned coach  Best available tickets to the performances listed Participation criteria for this tour  Extensive tour notes This Grade Two tour is designed for people who lead active  Background talks lives and can comfortably participate in up to five hours of  Services of a tour leader and tour manager throughout physical activity per day on most days, including longer  All entrance fees to sites mentioned on itinerary walking tours, challenging archaeological sites, climbing  Qualified local guides where appropriate stairs, embarking and disembarking trains and/or boats, and  Porterage of one piece of luggage at all hotels a more demanding tour schedule with one night stops or  Tips for all services included in the itinerary several internal flights. Not included You should be able to:  International air fares, taxes and surcharges (see below)  keep up with the group at all times  Travel insurance  walk for 4-5 kilometres at a moderate pace with only  Meals not mentioned in itinerary short breaks  Expenses of a personal nature  stand for a reasonable length of time in galleries and museums  tolerate uncomfortable climatic conditions such as cold, Air travel OPTIONS humidity and heat  walk up and down slopes The tour price quoted is for land content only. For this tour we  negotiate steps and slopes on archaeological sites, recommend Qatar Airlines which offer flights into Munich and which are often uneven and unstable out of Berlin from most Australian cities. Please contact us for  get on and off a large coach with steep stairs, train or further information on competitive Economy, Business or boat unassisted, possibly with luggage First-Class airfares.  move your luggage a short distance if required

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