The Danube Music Festival, 21-28 August 2014

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The Danube Music Festival21–28 August 2014

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Matching music and placeThe annual Danube Festival combines music and architecture in a singularly beguiling way. Concerts take place in palaces, churches, monasteries, country houses and other historic buildings which are among the most beautiful along the Danube.

But the value of the juxtaposition goes deeper than visual attraction. The buildings are generally of the same period as the music performed in them, and in some cases there are specific historical associations between the two.

Musicians of the highest calibreNow in its twenty-first year, the festival is established as a prestigious event in the musical calendar, featuring musicians of the highest calibre.

The festival explores the music of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert form the core of this year’s programmes, along with a number of less familiar names.

A rare intensity of musical communicationThe concerts are private, being accessible exclusively to the 140 participants who take a package which includes accommodation, all meals, lectures and much else besides.

The small size of the audience and of the venues leads to an informality and intimacy which engenders a rare intensity of musical communication.

Musicians love playing for this festival. Not only are the venues an inspiring change from modern concert halls, but the audiences are among the best in the world – attentive, knowledgeable, appreciative.

Travelling in comfortTo this exceptional artistic and intellectual experience is added a further pleasure: the comfort and convenience of a first-class river cruiser which is both hotel and principal means of travel.

We have chartered MS Amadeus Princess exclusively for this festival so you can attend all the concerts and see some of the finest scenery and townscape in the region without having to change hotels or drive long distances.

In many ways, however, this venture is far removed from the usual cruising routine: there is little regimentation, no obligatory seating plan, no on-board entertainment – and no piped music.

The Walking AlternativeFor up to eighteen of the audience there is the option of staying in hotels and enjoying guided walks through some of the most ravishing scenery of the Danube valley.

There are six walks of two to three hours in duration, and hotels in three different places. The walks are not at the expense of the concerts – they attend all eight, and have their own lecturer for pre-concert talks.

The Danube Music Festival, 21–28 August 2014

The spoken wordTalks and lecturers are another important ingredient. Musicologist Misha Donat and Professor Sir Richard Evans, a leading authority on the history of German-speaking Europe, give daily talks on the ship. Richard Wigmore, music critic and broadcaster, is the lecturer attached to the walking party.

Misha Donat. For more than 25 years he was a senior music producer for BBC Radio 3, and has given many radio talks and pre-concert talks at a number of venues in Britain. He writes programme notes, particularly for the Wigmore Hall, and CD booklets for many labels, and has lectured at universities here and in the USA. Currently he is producing recordings of a Mahler cycle with Lorin Maazel and the Philharmonia.

Professor Sir Richard J. Evans. Regius Professor of History and President of Wolfson College at the University of Cambridge. He is author of numerous books on Central European history including The Coming of the Third Reich, The Third Reich in Power and The Third Reich at War, and is currently working on The Pursuit of Power: Europe 1815-1914, a volume in the Penguin History of Europe. His latest book is Altered Pasts: Counterfactuals in History (Little, Brown, 2014).

Richard Wigmore. Music writer and lecturer, he broadcasts for BBC Radio 3 and writes for The Daily Telegraph, BBC Music Magazine and Gramophone, and gives classes in Lied history and interpretation at Birkbeck College, London. He read French and German at Cambridge and studied Music at the Guildhall. Books include Schubert: the Complete Song Texts and Pocket Guide to Haydn.

‘All aspects of the festival were without fault. I enjoyed every moment.’Comment from a previous festival participant. To read more, visit www.martinrandall.com/testimonials.

Two Beethoven premièresThe world offers few more powerful examples of matching music with place than a performance of Beethoven’s epoch-making Third Symphony, the Eroica, in the hall where it was first performed. There is no other recorded modern instance of this, not least because the hall can accommodate only seventy people – including the musicians. See page 8 for our solution to this problem. You will also see there that the lucky participants go on to hear the Seventh in the hall where that great symphony also received its first public performance.

ContentsConcerts & Itinerary ................... 4–9

Travel to and from the festival ....... 10

Accommodation ............................ 11

The Package, Prices ........................ 12

Pre-festival tour: Connoisseur’s London ................ 13–14Pre-festival tour: Vienna’s Masterpieces ................ 15–16Pre-festival tour: Salzburg Summer ............................ 16 Making a booking ......................... 16

Booking form .......................... 17–18

Booking Conditions ...................... 19

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Front cover: Dürnstein, early 20th-century etching by Luigi Kasimir. Left hand page and back cover: Beethoven, woodcut by Leopold Wächtler.

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Concerts & Itinerary The Danube Music Festival, 21–28 August 2014

day 1, thursday 21 august Passau

Fly from London or Manchester or make your way to Passau independently (for travel options, see page 10).

The ship, MS Amadeus Princess, is ready for boarding from 4.00pm. Afternoon tea is available upon arrival.

Piled up on promontories at the confluence of three rivers, the Bavarian city of Passau is dominated by a great Baroque cathedral and crammed with unspoilt streetscape and historic buildings. It was one of the most important episcopal seats in Central Europe and served as a refuge for the Habsburg court in times of danger.

After sailing at 6.30pm there is a reception followed by dinner.

Walkers. Fly at c. 10.00am from London Heathrow to Vienna. Drive directly to Felbring for an afternoon woodland walk through landscapes of beech and pine, with vistas across the Danube Valley. Walk c. 6km on a mixture of grassy footpaths and stony tracks, on level terrain with some downhill and uphill sections (sturdy walking boots are necessary). Arrive in Melk, a delightful little town on the Danube nestling under the abbey. First of two nights in Melk.

day 2, Friday 22 august Melk

Continue sailing downstream during the morning through a highly attractive stretch of the Danube which here is flanked by wooded hills, fields and periodic villages. The series of daily lectures begins.

Towards the end of the morning Melk Abbey appears ahead, dramatically rising on a rock outcrop beside the Danube. Disembark here for a visit to the abbey, one of the most brilliant creations of the Age of Baroque, a sequence comprising ceremonial courtyards, guest apartments, hall and library culminating in a church of unsurpassed decorative richness.

The first concert follows.

Concert 1: The Mozart Chamber Ensemble, Wolfgang Redik director, violinMelk Abbey, KolomanisaalCentral European monasteries enjoyed a final flowering in the eighteenth century, and among their contributions to society many ranked as considerable patrons of music. Mozart was one of innumerable professional musicians who performed at Melk, and it is recorded that monks played chamber music for private enjoyment. The concert is in the lavishly

frescoed Kolomanisaal, a second-floor hall not normally accessible to visitors.

The programme consists of a Haydn Violin Concerto, Mozart’s Adagio & Fugue K546, Five German Dances by Schubert, Mahler’s Adagietto for Strings and Harp (from Symphony No. 5) and Bartok’s Divertimento for Strings.

The Mozart Chamber Ensemble was founded in 2010 by its artistic director, Wolfgang Redik (formerly of the Vienna Piano Trio), to perform repertoire from quartets to smaller symphonies. Members are leading musicians from Middle Europe, soloists, chamber musicians and section leaders of well known orchestras.

Return to the ship and resume sailing downstream overnight to Vienna-Nussdorf.

Walkers. Drive along the picturesque road beside the Danube before turning into the hills to start the walk (c.6km). Begin among upland pastures and farmland before descending through woods of pine, beech and birch to the sound of tumbling streams. Walk on moderately gentle woodland paths and quiet roads, the few steep sections being fairly short. Catch glimpses of the Danube and then of the little riverside town of Grein. Lunch here. Return to Melk and visit the abbey state apartments and church.

Left: Melk Abbey, engraving c. 1830/40. Above: W. A. Mozart.

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day 3, Saturday 23 august vienna

Moor at Nussdorf, twenty minutes by coach from the centre of Vienna.

Principal seat of the Habsburgs for over six hundred years, Vienna became capital of a vast agglomeration of territories that encompassed much of Central and Eastern Europe. The fabric of the city is a glorious mix of the magnificently imperious and the charmingly unpretentious, and it remains one of the world’s greatest centres of art and music.

There is time to explore the city and an art gallery or two – the Kunsthistorisches Museum should not be missed – before the 5.00pm recital. Introductory tours with city guides are offered.

Concert 2: Joan Rodgers soprano Roger Vignoles pianoVienna, AlbertinaThe Albertina, a Habsburg residence named after a son-in-law of Empress Maria Theresa, is home to one of the world’s greatest collections of prints and drawings. The building was thoroughly refurbished at the beginning of the nineteenth century and beautifully restored a few years ago. The Musensaal on the upper floor is the light-filled and delicately Neo-Classical concert venue.

The internationally renowned soprano Joan Rodgers is celebrated for her work in opera, concert and recitals throughout Europe and the USA. Her many recordings include Mozart’s Da Ponte trilogy with Daniel Barenboim and the Berlin Philharmonic, and solo discs of

Tchaikovsky, Mozart, Wolf and Britten. She has received the Royal Philharmonic Society Singer of the Year Award, the Evening Standard Award for outstanding performance in opera and the CBE.

Roger Vignoles is one of the leading English accompanists and has collaborated with many of the world’s great singers and instrumentalists. His extensive discography ranges from German Lieder and French Mélodies to Spanish Canciones and Cabaret songs.

For this afternoon’s programme Joan has selected seven songs by Schubert and Hugo Wolf ’s Mörike Lieder.

Return to the ship after the recital and sail upstream during the evening. Moor for much of the night.

Walkers. Drive up to Göttweig Abbey, a magnificent building which crowns a prominent hill, and begin the walk, which incorporates a segment of the pilgrimage route to Santiago (c. 5km). After a steep descent, traverse gently inclined vine-clad slopes to the Danube. Cross the river for lunch in Krems and then drive into the centre of Vienna and settle into the hotel before the evening recital. First of three nights in Vienna.

Above, top to bottom: Joan Rodgers (©Rose Daniel); Roger Vignoles (©Ben Ealovega).

Vienna, wood engraving c. 1880 from Pictures from the German Fatherland.



day 4, Sunday 24 august Krems, vienna

Wake up at Dürnstein, perhaps the loveliest little town on the river. The ruins of a castle in which Richard the Lionheart was imprisoned cling to a steep hill behind while a gorgeous Baroque abbey church perches on the waterfront. There are a couple of hours here for wandering around before sailing back downstream through the Wachau and the Weinviertel, the wine-growing regions which are among the most beautiful stretches of the Danube valley.

Moor again at Nussdorf later that afternoon and drive to Kirche am Steinhof in the western outskirts of Vienna.

Concert 3: Wiener Kammerchor (the Vienna Chamber Choir) Michael Grohotolsky directorVienna, Kirche am SteinhofBuilt and decorated 1903–13, the church of the psychiatric hospital at Steinhof is a creation of refulgent beauty and one

of the finest Art Nouveau buildings in the world. It combines the purity of twentieth-century modernism with the decorative richness of Viennese Secession and homage to the glories of eighteenth century Austria.

One of Austria’s finest choirs, the Wiener Kammerchor performs throughout the country and abroad and has made several recordings. While they range across all styles, modern and contemporary music is usually an important ingredient in their programmes. This afternoon they present a largely Austrian programme called Vox, Lux, Pax. Two pieces are contemporary with the church, Arnold Schoenberg’s uplifting Friede auf Erden and Mahler’s O Röslein rot, two are from the previous century, by Bruckner and Mendelssohn, and five are by contemporary composers.

After the concert join the ship at Nussdorf, continue downstream and moor towards midnight at Hainburg.

Walkers. Drive up the Leopoldsberg, a high hill with fine views over the capital and the Danube valley. Walk down through beech woods, vineyards

day 5, Monday 25 august eszterháza, eisenstadt

The ship remains moored all day in the little Austrian town of Hainburg, where Haydn went to school.

Drive from Hainburg into Hungary and to Eszterháza, summer residence of Prince Nikolaus ‘the Magnificent’ of Esterházy and hence Joseph Haydn’s principal place of work for nearly thirty years. Perhaps the most beautiful country house in Central Europe, this late-Rococo, early-Neoclassical confection is being restored to its former glory. Lunch is provided here under a grove of horse-chestnuts (there is a wet-weather alternative).

and salubrious ivy-clad suburbs on a 5.5km walk on footpaths, country roads and quiet streets. Easy terrain. In the attractive wine-producing village of Heiligenstadt visit the apartment where Beethoven stayed (and wrote the ‘Heiligenstadt Testament’). Drive back to Vienna for a leisurely afternoon before the evening concert.

More about the concertsPrivate events. These concerts are planned and administered by Martin Randall Travel. The audience, no more than 140, consists exclusively of those who have booked the full festival package.

Seating. Specific seats are not reserved. You sit where you want.

Acoustics. This festival is more concerned with authenticity and ambience than acoustical perfection. While some of the venues have excellent acoustics, others have idiosyncrasies not found in modern concert halls.

Changes. Musicians fall ill, venues require restoration, rivers flood (or run dry): there are many unforeseeable circumstances which could necessitate changes to the programme. We ask you to be understanding should they occur.

Floods and droughts. We cannot rule out changes to the programme arising from exceptionally high or low water levels on the Danube, either of which may bring river traffic to a halt. These might necessitate more travel by coach or the loss of a concert, though we would always try to minimise the impact on the itinerary.

Left: Vienna, Hofburg, etching c. 1930.



Leave Eszterháza, cross from Hungary to Austria and drive to Eisenstadt, an attractive country town to the south-east of Vienna. It is dominated by a vast seventeenth-century mansion, the principal seat of the Esterházy family. As at the summer palace, many of Haydn’s works were first performed here.

Concert 5: The Vienna Piano TrioEisenstadt, Schloss EsterhazyThe concert takes place in the smaller of the two halls, which was refurbished in Neo-Classical style towards the end of Haydn’s life.

The Vienna Piano Trio – Bogdan Božović (violin), Matthias Gredler (cello), Stephan Mendl (piano) – is a world leader in its class, unfailingly giving colourful and dramatic performances which balance classical nobility, romantic turbulence and affecting delicacy.

Their programme this evening consists of works by Haydn (Trio in C), Mozart (Trio in G K496) and Schubert (Trio in B flat major D898).

Return to Hainburg for dinner.

Walkers. Visit the Esterházys Palace at Fertöd before the concert. After the buffet lunch in the park drive back to Austria and the Burgenland for a walk of c. 1.5 hours through gently rolling countryside of vineyards and fields. Continue by coach to Eisenstadt and attend the concert there. Third and final night in Vienna.

Top left: Esterhaza, 18th-century engraving.Top right: Artis Quartet (©Lukas Beck). Left: Wiener Kammerchor. Above: The Vienna Piano Trio.

Concert 4: The Artis QuartetEszterháza Palace, Haydn HallThe recital takes place in the principal hall of the palace, which is a delight – white and gold, eighteenth-century classicism on holiday. Many of Haydn’s compositions would have been performed here for the first time. Seating fewer than a hundred, the audience splits and the hour-long concert is performed twice.

The programme comprises Haydn’s Quartet in G minor Op.74/3 ‘Rider’ and Mozart’s Quartet in B K458 ‘The Hunt’.

One of the leading string quartets in the world, the Artis Quartet has been performing internationally since 1980. Based in Vienna, their cycle of concerts at the Wiener Musikverein has been an annual event since 1988. They have recorded over thirty CDs and been awarded some of the most distinguished prizes in world music.

‘An enormous thank you for a holiday it would be hard to better.’Participant on The Danube Music Festival in 2013.



day 6, tuesday 26 august vienna

A leisurely morning sailing from Hainburg to Nussdorf, with talks to prepare for the major musical events that lie ahead. Drive after lunch to the centre of Vienna.

Concert 6: Orchester Wiener Akademie Martin Hasselböck conductorVienna, Lobkowitz PalacePrince Franz Joseph Maximilian von Lobkowitz contributed to an annuity intended to relieve Beethoven of basic material anxieties, paid him for dedications and allowed him free use of his own liveried orchestra. Thus it was that the Third Symphony received its first trials and rehearsals in the Lobkowitz Palace and its first performance there before an invited audience on 7th April 1805.

Rarely, if ever, has a performance of the Eroica taken place in the same hall again. The reason is clear: the hall is too small for an audience more numerous than the orchestra, even with the original line-up of only 32 players.

Our solution is a true promenade concert – no seats, and freedom to move around. Entry is by timed ticket, issued randomly, and you leave when you please (unless a tap on the shoulder indicates that the

maximum number permitted by the fire department has been reached). You won’t hear the whole symphony, but in exchange you will have an extraordinarily intense musical experience and spine-tingling proximity to one of the great moments in the history of music. And you do get to hear the whole piece – an hour later.

The Eroica was unprecedented in scale and emotional power, far longer and more complex than anything composed hitherto, a torrent of startling ideas bound into a heroic whole by the nobility of its overarching architecture.

Period-instrument orchestra Wiener Akademie was founded by Martin Hasselböck in 1985 and has become internationally respected for its unmistakably Austrian musicality, virtuosity and lively interpretation of repertoire ranging from Baroque to early Romantic music. For many years they have had a regular concert series at the Vienna Musikverein.

Concert 7: Orchester Wiener Akademie Martin Hasselböck conductorVienna, Akademie der WissenschaftenFrom the Lobkowitz Palace to the Akademie der Wissenschaften is a leisurely twenty-minute walk through the heart of Vienna. The lavishly decorated Academy was built in 1753

as the University Aula and in the early nineteenth century became the most prestigious concert venue in the city.

First there is a full performance of the Eroica, with the Wiener Akademie augmented from 32 to 44 players (and with the audience seated).

Then follows Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony – which was first heard in this very hall, on 8th December 1813. After twenty years of war and economic crises, the mood in Vienna was lifting as the tide finally turned against Napoleon. Despite its radical nature (‘the most remarkable symphony ever written, an elemental outpouring’, Richard Osborne 2003) it was greeted with almost universal acclaim and marked the apotheosis of Beethoven as the greatest musical genius of the age.

Return to the ship after the concert and sail upstream through the night and following morning.

Walkers. Free morning in Vienna with the option of a tour with a local guide. Attend the afternoon concerts. Drive to Dürnstein, the prettiest little town on the Danube, a compact group of mediaeval, Renaissance and Baroque buildings set amidst the finest wine-producing area in Austria. First of two nights here.

Beethoven, after a painting by Julius Schmid. Wiener Akademie (©Meinrad Hofer).



day 7, Wednesday 27 august, linz

Arrive in Linz, the historic capital of Upper Austria, towards the end of the morning. A picturesque maze of streets, alleys and historic buildings is grouped around the huge market square, only yards away from the mooring.

Concert 8: Austro-Hungarian Haydn Philharmonic Rainer Honeck conductorLinz, Palais Kaufmännischer VereinAppropriately, the first half includes Mozart’s ‘Linz’ Symphony, No. 36 in C, written for a concert in the city in 1783. The festival’s Beethoven theme continues with Symphony No. 6, the Pastoral, which dates to 1808. This joyous picture of the countryside provides a perfect finale to the festival.

The Österreiches-Ungarisches Haydn Philharmonie was founded in 1987 to bring together outstanding musicians from Austria and Hungary. Touring widely, they have acquired an international reputation as one of the most spirited and sensitive interpreters of the Viennese classics. They have recorded Haydn’s complete symphonies and first performed a Beethoven cycle in 2013.

Having been leader of the Vienna Philharmonic, Rainer Honeck has performed as violin soloist with that and many other orchestras and is now developing a career as conductor.

The Kaufmännischer Verein was built in the 1890s with a suite of lavishly decorated halls for assorted gatherings and celebrations. The Picture Hall is a fin-de-siècle creation enriched with gilded Baroque motifs and ennobled with fine history paintings.

Sail upstream overnight from Linz to Passau, with a reception and dinner against a backdrop of river and wooded hills receding into the dusk.

Walkers. A morning walk of c. 6.5km starts with a climb of 15 minutes on a small road into the vine-clad hills overlooking the Danube and dips periodically into shaded gullies with butterflies, abundant wildflowers and red-roofed villages in the valley below. The terrain is easy underfoot as the walk is predominantly on quiet, shaded roads. Drive to Linz for the concert. Overnight Dürnstein.

day 8, thursday 28 august Passau, Munich

The ship moors at Passau and coaches leave for Munich city centre and the airport between 8.30 and 9.30am. See page 10 for the options available for return travel to London. Selecting Option 2 allows for an afternoon of independent sightseeing in Munich.

Walkers. Choose between free time this morning or a walk of c. 1.5 hours before travelling by coach to Vienna Airport. Return to Heathrow at c. 4.30pm.

Left: The Austro-Hungarian Haydn Philharmonic.

Passau, 20th-century etching.

‘Another most enjoyable and uplifting holiday... impeccably organised by Martin Randall Travel.’Participant on The Danube Music Festival in 2013.

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Travel options The Danube Music Festival, 21–28 August 2014

Flights from the UKWe are offering a choice of three scheduled Lufthansa flights to Munich, from London or Manchester.

Please note that each outbound flight is tied to a particular inbound flight. You cannot mix flights from different options.

Option 1Fly from London Heathrow to Munich at 9.05am (LH 2471, departing Heathrow 09.05, arriving Munich 12.00). Break the journey to Passau with lunch at Landshut, a former capital of Bavaria. There are two hours here, and it should

be possible to see the main street with its Renaissance and Baroque house fronts, the great Gothic church of St Martin or the precociously Italianate Renaissance ducal palace.

Return to London Heathrow at 3.40pm (LH 2476, departing Munich 14.35, arriving London Heathrow 15.40).

Option 2Fly from London Heathrow to Munich at 11.00am (LH 2473, departing London Heathrow 11.00, arriving Munich 13.55). Drive directly from Munich Airport to the ship at Passau, a journey of under two hours.

Return to London Heathrow at 7.05pm (LH 2480, departing Munich 18.00, arriving Heathrow 19.05). Coaches take you first to the centre of Munich, where you have about four hours of free time, before continuing to the airport.

Option 3Fly from Manchester to Munich at 10.50am (LH 2501, departing Manchester 10.50, arriving Munich 13.50.) Drive from Munich Airport to the ship at Passau, a journey of under two hours.

Return to Manchester at 4.40pm (LH 2502, departing Munich 15.35, arriving Manchester 16.40). Coaches take you first to the centre of Munich, where you have about two hours of free time, before continuing to the airport.

It may be possible to arrange connecting flights with other regional UK airports.

Option 4: Making your own arrangementsYou can choose not to take any of these flights and to make your own arrangements for joining at Passau, boarding the ship between 4.00pm and 6.00pm. You are welcome to join one of the group transfers from Munich Airport.

There is a price reduction for this ‘no flights’ option of £190 per person.

The Walking PartyThursday 21 August: fly at 9.55am from London Heathrow to Vienna.

Thursday 28 August: fly from Vienna to London Heathrow, arriving at 3.35pm.

Pre-festival tour: Vienna’s Masterpieces

Sunday 17 August: fly from London Heathrow to Vienna at 9.15am.

Thursday 28 August: fly from Munich to London Heathrow, arriving at 3.40pm (Flight Option 1).

Pre-festival tour: Connoisseur’s LondonParticipants on this tour fly out and back with Flight Option 2.

Travel to and from the festival

Mozart, wood engraving c. 1870.

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Accommodation The Danube Music Festival, 21–28 August 2014

The ShipThe Amadeus Princess is one of the most comfortable cruisers on the waterways of Europe. The multinational crew is dedicated to the highest standards of service.

With a minimum floor area of 15m2 the cabins are reasonably spacious by the standards of river cruisers. All have windows to the outside and are equipped with the facilities one would expect of a first-class hotel including shower, w.c., individually adjustable air-conditioning, telephone, TV and safe. Special attention has been paid to noise insulation.

In layout and furnishings the cabins are identical, the significant differences being the size of windows and height above water level (higher cabins enjoy better views and fewer stairs).

Those on the top two decks (Mozart and Strauss) are the most desirable, with the former having floor to ceiling windows (224 x 190 cm) which slide open, and the latter having only slightly smaller windows (224 x 160 cm), which also open. Also on the Mozart deck are two suites measuring approximately 22m2 which have a sofa, table and armchair, a bath, minibar and safe.

Cabins on the lowest (Haydn) deck have smaller windows (160 x 40 cm) which don’t open. There are no single cabins as such but we are allocating some two-bed cabins for single occupancy.

The public areas on the upper deck include the lounge and bar, a library area and a restaurant which can seat everyone at a single sitting. The sun deck has a small heated pool and a tented area for shade.

www.lueftner-cruises.com

Hotels, for the walkersMelk (2 nights): The Hotel zur Post is a family-run 4-star hotel in the centre of the town, fairly simple but adequately comfortable. Vienna (3 nights): The Hotel Bristol is a 5-star hotel in a superb location on the Ringstrasse near the opera house, traditionally

furnished and decorated. All rooms are well equipped, most have a bath and the location is excellent. Dürnstein (2 nights): The Richard Löwenherz is a lovely old-fashioned hotel occupying a historic building with garden and outdoor pool.

Key: 1 Bed; 2 Television; 3 Toilet; 4 Wash basin; 5 Shower; 6 Cabinet; 7 Telephone; 8 Writing desk; 9 Window; 10 Chair. (The floorplan is identical for all cabins on the Haydn, Strauss and Mozart decks.) Floorplan for a suite on the Mozart deck. Key: 1

Bed; 2 Television; 3 Toilet; 4 Wash basin; 5 Bath tub; 6 Cabinet; 7 Telephone; 8 Writing desk; 9 Window; 10 Chair; 11 Minibar; 12 Sofa bed; 13 Table; 14 Armchair.

Cabins (c. 15m2) Suites (c. 22m2)

A cabin on the Haydn deck (cabins on other decks have the same layout, with larger windows).

A suite on the Mozart deck.

This brochure was designed inhouse by Jo Murray. The text was written and edited by Martin Randall and Maddy Anedda.


The Package, Prices The Danube Music Festival, 21–28 August 2014

The festival teamMartin Randall, Festival Director. Martin pioneered this model of all-inclusive music festivals twenty years ago, and was largely responsible for the

selection of artists and venues and for the overall design of the Festival.

Maddy Anedda, Festival Manager. Maddy has worked on many of our music festivals and other events, in Austria, Germany and Italy, and was manager of

our Johann Sebastian Bach Journey in 2013. She heads a team that set up and administered this festival, most of whom will accompany the event as well.

The Festival PackageThe price includes:

Admission to all eight concerts (also for the walking party) and daily lectures.

Accommodation on a first-class river cruiser for seven nights, or in hotels for the walking party.

Flights between the UK and Munich for those on the ship, or London and Vienna for the walking party. There is a price reduction if you do not use these.

All meals, from dinner on the first day to breakfast on the last, with wine, and interval drinks. For the walkers, five dinners and five lunches are included.

Coach travel between the airport and ship or hotel and to the concert venues (when not reached on foot).

All tips, taxes and admission charges.

Practical and historical information and a detailed programme booklet.

The assistance of an experienced team of festival staff.

PricesHaydn Deck (lowest)£2,990 per person, based on two sharing.£3,580 or £3,880 for single occupancy.*

Strauss Deck (middle)£3,730 per person, based on two sharing.£4,470 or £4,850 for single occupancy.*

Mozart Deck (top)£4,080 per person, based on two sharing.£4,900 or £5,300 for single occupancy.*

Suites (Mozart Deck)£4,710 per person, based on two sharing.

*The higher price for single occupancy cabins applies when our initial allocation of them has sold out.

No-flights optionIf you are not taking any of our flight options (see page 10), subtract £190 from the prices above.

The Walking Party£3,080 per person, based on two sharing.£3,400 for single occupancy.Price without flights £2,840 per person, or £3,160 for single occupancy.

Deposit£300 per person.

Fitness for the FestivalQuite a lot of walking is necessary to reach the concert venues and to get around the towns visited. The ship does not have a lift, nor do most of the venues. Participants need to be averagely fit, sure-footed and able to manage everyday walking and stairclimbing without difficulty.

This festival is not really suitable for wheelchair users but please speak to us if you would like to discuss this.

Fitness for The Walking Party. This is a walking tour: it is essential for participants to be in good physical condition and to be used to country walking with uphill content. There are a few moderately steep climbs for short stretches, but no walk is more than 5 miles or 3 hours. Except on one occasion, there is the opportunity to return to the hotel to freshen up before every concert or dinner.

Castle Weiteneck, from the gallery at Melk Abbey, mid-19th-century steel engraving by J.C. Armytage.


Pre-festival tours The Danube Music Festival, 21–28 August 2014

Connoisseurs’ londonless accessible & lesser known treasures

17–21 August 2014 (ma 990) 5 days • £1,840 Lecturers & guides: various specialists

Great art and architecture off the beaten track, not generally accessible or simply overlooked amid London’s vast riches.

Several different lecturers and specialist guides and many special arrangements.

Three evenings are free. Participants will be offered theatre or concert tickets.

Very centrally located 4-star hotel.

This tour is intended for those who have some familiarity with the main sights and museums but have seen fewer of the innumerable lesser-known or out-of-the-

way treasures. Many of these turn out to be houses and homes, among them the wonderfully eccentric Soane Museum and the Palladian perfection of Chiswick House. Some contain staggeringly good art collections such as the Vermeer, Rembrandt and Gainsboroughs at Kenwood House and the spectacular French furniture and Old Masters at the Wallace Collection.

There is also Britain’s first public gallery, a seventeenth-century garden, a Roman amphitheatre and St Paul’s Cathedral. This last can hardly be considered little visited or out of the way, but as elsewhere, special arrangements lift the visit above the ordinary. Most days are over between 4.30 and 5.30pm, giving opportunity to attend a concert or a play. We will buy a few

tickets for choice events as they come on sale and offer them to participants.

ItineraryDay 1. Leave the hotel in Westminster at 11.00am by coach. Chiswick House in west London is a key work in the history of English architecture, a jewel-like Palladian villa of the 1720s in gardens of comparable historical importance. Then visit the mansion Lord Leighton built for himself in Kensington which is of a lavishness surprising even for the leading establishment artist of his day.

Day 2. London’s Livery Halls constitute a unique group of secular buildings of splendour and interest, and we visit one of the grandest. The Guildhall Art Gallery has a little-visited collection of largely 19th and 20th-cent. paintings

The old London Bridge, 20th-century reproduction of an engraving by S. &

N. Buck, 1749.



and, recently discovered below, evocative remains of the Roman amphitheatre. The visit to St Paul’s Cathedral, Sir Christopher Wren’s greatest work and one of the great classical buildings of the world, includes parts not generally open to visitors. There is opportunity to attend Choral Evensong at 5.00pm.

Day 3. Sir John Soane’s Museum is one of the most extraordinary in the world: adjacent town houses adapted by the eponymous architect and filled with his eclectic art collections. At the

Wallace Collection the holding of French 18th-century painting, furniture and porcelain is second only to the Louvre, and there are great works by Titian, Rembrandt, Velasquez and other great masters. Finally, the Banqueting House in Whitehall, the first truly classical-style building in Britain, designed by Inigo Jones in 1619 and with a ceiling painting by Rubens.

Day 4. Kenwood House on Hampstead Heath in north London is a very fine 18th-cent. mansion by Robert Adam with

a marvellous picture collection, reopening in 2013 after restoration. Hampstead is perhaps the loveliest of London’s villages. Visit the exquisite 17th-cent. Fenton House and its collection of keyboard instruments before descending to the Georgian squares of Bloomsbury and the Foundling Museum. With Handel and Hogarth as eager benefactors, the art here is remarkable.

Day 5. Participants joining The Danube Music Festival take a transfer at c. 8.30am from the hotel to London Heathrow airport to join flight option 2.

PracticalitiesPrice: £1,840 (deposit £200). This includes: accommodation as described below; breakfasts, one dinner with wine, water and coffee; transport by private coach, taxi and by underground railway (tube); admission to houses and sites visited with the group; tips for waiters, drivers and guides; all taxes; the services of the lecturer and tour manager. Single supplement £280.

Hotel. The Royal Horseguards is a 5-star hotel in the heart of Whitehall. The style is that of an international hotel and bedrooms are very comfortable with all mod cons. All have a bath and shower.

How strenuous? Participants need to be good walkers and have stamina.

Small group: 12 to 22 participants.

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Left: Soane Museum, engraving c. 1870.



vienna’s Masterpiecesthe art collections of an imperial capital

17–21 August 2014 (ma 992) 5 days • £1,630 Lecturer: Angus Haldane

Focuses on the best of the art in the city – painting, sculpture and decorative arts.

Also the key architectural monuments and characteristic streetscape.

Perfectly located 5-star heritage hotel.

Vienna possesses one of the most significant concentrations of great art to be found anywhere in the world. There are Old Master paintings of the highest quality, indigenous early-modern art and design of the highest importance, furnishings and decorative arts from many civilizations, precious regalia and goldwork without peer – and much else besides. This tour includes all the main art museums and many of the smaller or less-visited ones. There is also more than a passing glance at the most important works of architecture, and the lecturer’s input touches on the fascinating and turbulent history of Austria and her empire.

The seat of the Habsburgs, pre-eminent city of the Holy Roman Empire and capital of a vast multinational agglomeration of territories, Vienna is appropriately equipped with magnificent buildings and broad boulevards. But cheek by jowl with grandiloquent palaces and trumpeting churches are narrow alleys and ancient courtyards which survive from the mediaeval city. In Vienna the magnificent mixes with the unpretentiously charming, imperial display with the Gemütlichkeit of the coffee houses. Diversity and delight.

ItineraryDay 1. Fly at c. 9.15am from London Heathrow to Vienna and drive to the hotel in the heart of the city. After a light lunch, walk to the Kunsthistorisches Museum (Art History Museum), one of the world’s greatest collections of Old

Masters. For this first visit concentrate on the northern schools, especially the early Netherlandish school, the famous Bruegels, Rubens, Rembrandt and Vermeer.

Day 2. The splendid Belvedere Palace now houses the national collection of Austrian art, mediaeval, Baroque, Biedermeier and Secessionist – Klimt and Schiele. An afternoon walk around the Roman and mediaeval core of the city takes in the Cathedral, the greatest of Gothic buildings in the Danubian lands, distinguished for its late mediaeval sculpture, and the Hofburg, the sprawling winter palace of the Habsburgs. The precious regalia and objets d’art in the Schatzkammer (Treasury) are the best of their kind.

Day 3. In a park a few minutes from the hotel see the Art Nouveau former metro stations by Otto Wagner and the great Baroque Church of St Charles. The

excellent Vienna Museum traces the city’s history through art and artefacts. In the afternoon visit the Secession Building which contains Klimt’s Beethoven Frieze, the magnificent Great Hall of the Court Library and the excellent if small gallery of the Academy of Fine Arts. Among it’s holdings is a masterpiece by Hieronymus Bosch.

Day 4. Another walk through picturesque streets and squares passes private palaces and public buildings such as the Gothic Revival city hall and the Neo-Classical Parliament. The Leopold Collection comprises excellent examples of the arts from the turn of the nineteenth century. The afternoon is spent in the Kunsthistorisches Museum again, this time concentrating mainly on Italian pictures – Bellini, Titian, Bellotto. There is also the recently re-displayed Kunstkammer here, an outstanding collection of metalwork and sculpture.

National (formerly court) Library, lithograph c. 1950.



Salzburg SummerTo be available as a pre-festival tour August 2014 Details available in December 2013 Contact us to register your interest

Day 5. Take a tram around the Ringstrasse, a boulevard encircling the inner city lined with magnificent palaces and institutions of the later nineteenth century. Visit the Museum of Applied Arts, an outstanding collection from all eras and places, well displayed. Walk back to the hotel through further enchanting streetscape. Those joining the Danube Music Festival travel by rail 14.52–17.18 to Passau, those flying to London leave the hotel at 3.00pm and return to Heathrow c. 6.40pm

PracticalitiesPrice: £1,630 (deposit £200). This includes: coach travel for the airport transfers and on one other occasion; accommodation as described below; breakfasts, 1 lunch and 3 dinners, with wine, water and coffee; admission charges for museums etc.; tips for waiters, hotel staff and drivers; all airport and state taxes; services of the lecturer. Flights are charged as a part of the festival package. Single supplement £240.

Hotel: dating to the early 20th century, the 5-star Bristol is traditional in style though well equipped with all modern conveniences. Excellent discreet service,

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good restaurant, large rooms and very good location. Included dinners are at selected restaurants.

How strenuous? There is quite a lot of walking on this tour and standing around in galleries. Tram is used on some occasions.

Small group: this tour will operate with between 10 and 22 participants.

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2. Definite bookingFill in the Booking Form and send it to us with the deposit. It is important that you read the Booking Conditions at this stage, and that you sign the Booking Form. Full payment is required if you are booking within ten weeks of the festival.

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Vienna, Am Hof, engraving 1780.

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Option 1. 21 August 2014 LH2471 Heathrow to Munich; 28 August 2014 LH2476 Munich to Heathrow.

Option 2. 21 August 2014 LH2473 Heathrow to Munich; 28 August 2014 LH2480 Munich to Heathrow.

Option 3. 21 August 2014 LH2501 Manchester to Munich; 28 August 2014 LH2502 Munich to Manchester.

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PRE-FESTIVAL TOURS

Connoisseur’s London 17–21 August 2014 (see pages 13–14)

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Vienna’s Masterpieces 17–21 August 2014 (see pages 15–16)

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Specific termsOur contract with you. From the time we receive your signed booking form and initial payment, a contract exists between you and Martin Randall Travel Ltd.Eligibility. We reserve the right to refuse to accept a booking without necessarily giving a reason. It is essential to be able to cope with the walking and the steps required to get to the concert venues. See ‘Fitness’ on page 12 (pages 13–16 for pre-festival tours). There is no age limit for the festival, though we cannot accept bookings on the pre-festival tours, or on the walking alternative to the festival, from those who would be 81 or over at the time of departure. Insurance. It is a requirement of booking that you have adequate holiday insurance. Cover for medical treatment, repatriation, loss of property and cancellation charges must be included. Insurance can be obtained from most insurance companies, banks, travel agencies and (in the UK) many retail outlets including Post Offices.Passports and visas. Participants must have passports, valid for at least six months beyond the date of the festival. No visas are required for the countries visited during the festival (Austria, Germany, Slovakia, Hungary) for UK or other EU citizens, or for citizens of the USA, Canada, Australia or New Zealand. Nationals of other countries should ascertain whether visas are

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