Three Choirs Festival Gloucester

Saturday 27 July - Sunday 4 August 2013


The Three Choirs Festival is one of the oldest festivals in the world. For nearly three hundred years the cathedral cities of Gloucester, Hereford and Worcester have taken turns to host an annual 'music meeting'. The original performers were the three cathedral choirs, who remain at the heart of the festival, but the large scale choral repertoire at today's concerts is performed by the festival chorus drawn from the three cities, joined by an array of international artists and ensembles to provide a diversity unimagined in the eighteenth century.


Festival Chorus, Philharmonia Orchestra, Vladimir Ashkenazy coductor,
Helena Juntunen, soprano, Paul Nilon tenor and Nathan Berg bass.
Elgar: Overture In the South Sibelius: Luonnatar  Rachmaninov: The Bells

Philharmonia Orchestra, Adrian Partington conductor, Philip Higham cello
Walton: Portsmouth Point Overture  Elgar: Cello Concerto  Brett Dean: Komarov's Fall 
Holst: The Planets

Festival Chorus, Philharmonia Orchestra, Edward Gardner conductor, Sarah Connolly mezzo-soprano
Wagner: Tannhäuser Overture and Wesendonck Lieder  Verdi: Four Sacred Pieces

Polyphony, Philharmonia Orchestra, Stephen Layton conductor
Arvo Pärt: Cantus in memoriam Benjamin Britten and Berliner Mass  Sibelius: Symphony No 2

Festival Chorus, Florilegium, Geraint Bowen conductor
Mozart: Sinfonia Concertante  Beethoven: Symphony No 9

Festival Chorus, Philharmonia Orchestra, Peter Nardone conductor
Coleridge-Taylor: The Song of Hiawatha

Festival Chorus, Philharmonia Orchestra, Adrian Partington conductor, Njabulo Madlala baritone
Vaughan Williams: Prelude and Fugue in C minor  Elgar: Falstaff  Walton: Belshazzar's Feast

Festival Chorus Philharmonia Orchestra, Adrian Partington conductor,
Susan Bickley mezzo-soprano, Toby Spence tenor, Matthew Rose bass
Wagner: Overture to Parsifal  Elgar: Dream of Gerontius

This year, for the first time, we are offering an 8 night stay to cover the whole of the festival.
We are also offering two, 4 night stays 27-31 July or 31 July - 4 August

Staying at the 4* Queens Hotel in Cheltenham.
There will be transfers to Gloucester each day.


 


Cost per person for 8 nights: £1675 (Based on 2 people sharing a room) Single room supplement: £240


Cost per person for 4 nights: £875 (Based on 2 people sharing a room) Single room supplement: £120

The cost of this holiday will cover the following:

  • > 8 nights (or 4 nights) bed and full English breakfast at the Queens Hotel
  • > tickets to 8 (or 4 ) concerts
  • > 4 (or 2) meals with wine
  • > transfers from Cheltenham Spa station
  • > transfers into Gloucester each day
  • > 2 (or 1) sightseeing trips
  • > Services of tour escort, John Whibley
Travel to Cheltenham is not included
Travel insurance is not included

Details are correct at time of publishing (September 2012) but may be subject to change.

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