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Cultural Tours & Music Holidays cultural tours & music holidays SPRING NEWSLETTER 2019 Welcome to our new 2019 Cultural Tours & Music Holidays newsletter. We have included a selection of our favourite tours where we still have some places available, as well as details of a Index number of new holidays due to depart in 2019 and early 2020. Cornwall Music Festival 2 We are delighted to reveal details of a six day itinerary to Istanbul in October, a fascinating nine Villa Medici Giulini Collection 3 night tour to Romania, and a holiday to Finland where we attend the annual Sibelius Festival on Verdi Festival, Parma 4 the shores of Lake Lahti. Further afield we shall head to Oman - the ‘Pearl of Arabia’ in October and the beautiful island of Sri Lanka in early 2020. Handel in Sweden 5 Closer to home, we have a range of itineraries within the British Isles, including a tour of the elegant Cheltenham Music Festival 6 architecture of Georgian Dublin (see below), visits to music festivals in Cheltenham, North Norfolk, Aldeburgh Festival 7 Aldeburgh and Suffolk – and our own exclusive Kirker Music Festival in Cornwall. Sibelius Festival 8 In Italy, we will be travelling to some of the most charming and unspoilt towns including Parma in Glyndebourne 9 Emilia-Romagna for the annual Verdi Festival, Lucca in Tuscany, and the hill towns of North Norfolk Music Festival 10 Le Marche. We shall be marking the 400th anniversary of the death of Leonardo da Vinci with Kirker Music Festivals 11 a tour to Florence and Milan in the autumn and will commemorate 75 years since the D-Day landings with a tour to Normandy in the company of military historian Hill Towns of Le Marche 12 Hugh Macdonald-Buchanan. Leonardo’s Italy 13 We do hope you will join the increasing number of our clients Lucca & The Lucchese Hills 14 who enjoy travelling on our Cultural Tours and Music Istanbul 15 Holidays, and look forward to hearing from you soon. Journey Through Romania 16 Sri Lanka 17 Oman 18 Ted Wake - Joint MD & Director of Sales & Marketing D-Day in Normandy 19 Italian Cultural Tours 20 GEORGIAN DUBLIN A SIX NIGHT HOLIDAY | 10 OCTOBER 2019 Dublin has one of the best preserved and most complete Georgian aspects; gracious squares, stately terraces and splendid public buildings hide sumptuously decorated interiors. This itinerary will not only include the finest examples in Dublin itself, but also takes us out of the city to a number of Georgian mansions, some still in private ownership. The tour will be led by Roger White, an architectural historian specialising in the Georgian period, formerly Secretary of both the Georgian Group and Garden History Society. His recent book on the cottage orné genre has been widely and enthusiastically reviewed. The itinerary We will visit a number of private houses as well as see the Georgian interiors of Trinity College, the King’s Inns and Leinster House, now home to the Irish Parliament. Outside Dublin we will go to Castletown and Carton, two of Ireland’s grandest houses, have lunch at Beaulieu and visit Russborough in the Wicklow Mountains. Sir Alfred Beit amassed a superb art collection here which is now on display in the National Gallery of Ireland. Castletown is Ireland’s largest, and first, Palladian-style mansion, built in 1722 as the residence for William Conolly, Speaker of the Irish House of Commons. Neoclassical Rathfarnham Castle, austere Townley Hall, the water garden at Kilruddery Castle and the romantic Shell Cottage at Carton are all included. We have left time for independent exploration – the Book of Kells, the newly revamped National Gallery of Ireland and the National Museum all deserve a visitor’s time. Our base for the duration is the 4* The Green Hotel, ideally located on St. Stephen’s Green in the heart of Dublin. Price £2,219 per person (single supp. £598) for six nights including flights, accommodation with breakfast, four dinners, two lunches, all sightseeing, entrance fees and gratuities and the services of the Kirker Tour Lecturer. E HOL AD ID M A - Y R S O To make a reservation please speak L I S A R T E to your independent travel agent L F L O expert advice E R V since 1986 A D R Published January 2019. Terms and conditions apply. I T S C Prices are per person based on 2 sharing. E R N I N G EXCLUSIVE KIRKER MUSIC FESTIVALS THE KIRKER CORNWALL MUSIC FESTIVAL A FOUR NIGHT HOLIDAY | 1 OCTOBER 2019 The highlights of our popular Cornwall Festival are the visits we Boconnoc House make to Boconnoc near Lostwithiel. This magnificent house is set in twenty acres of wonderful gardens. We will be welcomed at Boconnoc by Elizabeth Fortescue who lives on the estate and we will visit the house twice – once for a morning concert after which we will stay on for lunch and a talk on Boconnoc, and again for an evening concert followed by dinner in the house. The tour is based in the pretty town of Fowey, ten miles from Boconnoc. Fowey overlooks the glorious River Fowey estuary and is a town of great charm with a lively quayside and narrow, atmospheric streets. There is much to explore here including the parish church, St Fimbarrus, a harbour cruise, or a journey on the ferry across the river to Polruan. This area has close associations with the life and work of Daphne du Maurier, who lived here for many years and who died in Fowey in 1989. The itinerary THE MUSICIANS DAY Please make your own way to The Fowey Hotel. Clients travelling by THE SACCONI QUARTET Formed in 2001 the quartet still has 1 train should book to Par and continue their journey by taxi (call us its four original members, and now, in its 18th year, ranks high among if you would like us to arrange taxis for you). Hotel car parking can be pre- the most established British string quartets. They have enjoyed a highly booked for a nominal charge. The Fowey Hotel is a traditional resort hotel successful international career, performing regularly throughout Europe, with magnificent views of the Fowey River. It has comfortable bedrooms, at London’s major venues, in recordings and on radio broadcasts. In 2017 an atmospheric bar and restaurant. they released three new CDs; “In Damascus, music by Jonathan Dove”, was chosen as Gramophone Magazine’s Recording of the Month. 2019 plans include two Wigmore Hall concerts; the Irish premiere of In Damascus We are driven to Boconnoc this morning for our first visit. Coffee DAY with tenor Robin Tritschler; a tour of the rarely heard John Ireland Sextet 2 will be served on arrival before a welcome and introduction by our with Robert Plane and Alec Frank-Gemmill; a new commission by Judith hostess, Elizabeth Fortescue. Having fallen into disrepair, restoration work Bingham, and performances at festivals including Buxton International, began here in 2000 saving the house from demolition, and we will visit Swaledale, Newbury, Salisbury, Halesworth and Gower. 2018 saw the the house and the surrounding outbuildings, including its Georgian bath eleventh year of the Sacconi Chamber Music Festival in Folkestone, with house and church. Our first concert will be followed by lunch and then Graham Fitkin as composer in residence and collaborations with the we will return to Fowey. London Bridge Trio, Moray Welsh and African trio Chesaba. DAY This afternoon we drive to St. Mawes, a picturesque and fashionable 3 village overlooking the sea. On arrival, we visit Lamorran House for a tour of the evergreen garden. Afterwards, we will go to the old Methodist Chapel for our second concert which has a lovely acoustic and is ideal for chamber music. We will then walk down to the Hotel Tresanton where we will have dinner before returning to Fowey. DAY We spend today at leisure in Fowey. In the evening we return 4 to Boconnoc for our final concert and then enjoy dinner together afterwards. DAY The tour ends after breakfast. 5 Music Programme 2 October: Haydn: String Quartet in D Op.64 No.5 “The Lark” Optional excursion: St. Ives, 4 October (9.30am – 4.30pm) Beethoven: String Quartet in F minor Op.95 “Serioso” £55 per person Mendelssohn: String Quartet in E flat Op.12 About 90 minutes from Fowey, our visit to St. Ives starts at the Tate, 3 October: Rachmaninov: Romance, for string quartet which reopened in October 2017 after a four year redevelopment. Korngold: String Quartet No.3 in D, Op.34 The Tate displays a semi-permanent collection in the original building Brahms: String Quintet in F Op.88 including several works by artists with close association to Cornwall as 4 October: Simon Rowland-Jones: String Quintet No.2 “Trouvaille” well as a programme of changing exhibitions in the new wing. We will Schubert: String Quartet in D minor D.810 also visit the nearby Barbara Hepworth Museum and Sculpture Garden. “Death and the Maiden” Price from £1,567 per person (single sup. £248) including four nights’ accommodation with breakfast, one lunch at Boconnoc, four dinners – two in the hotel, one at the Hotel Tresanton and one at Boconnoc, excursions as described, three concerts and the services of the Tour Leader. Supplements for rooms with sea view range from £60 to £168 per person – please speak to your independent travel agent for further details. 2 For reservations please speak to your independent travel agent EXCLUSIVE KIRKER MUSIC FESTIVALS THE VILLA MEDICI GIULINI COLLECTION A FOUR NIGHT HOLIDAY | 7 MAY 2019 ‘The progress of the piano’ with Melvyn Tan We were delighted when one of the world’s best known pianists, Melvyn Tan, introduced us to Fernanda Giulini’s matchless collection of historical keyboard instruments at her villa in Lombardy.
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