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Norfolk and Norwich Festival

Norwich, 10-26 May
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Nothing quite says summer like the Chapelfield Gardens’s Spiegeltent where, from Ragroof
Tea Dance to South American circus, festival afficionados let their hair down. Chamber

Choir Ireland and late-evening Messiaen colonise the city’s Cathedral, while the medieval
Guildhall screens specially commissioned films inspired by music.

The Octagon Chapel, however, is not to be outdone. As well as a BBC New Generation
Artists series, Apartment House introduces a new work by Cassandra Miller, and organists
James McVinnie and Eliza McCarthy buckle up for the eight-hours duration of Jonny

Greenwood’s 268 Years of Reverb.

Chipping Campden Festival

Chipping Campden, 11-25 May

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Founding artistic director Charlie Bennett stepped down after last year’s festival, but his
guiding spirit lives on. The Festival Academy Orchestra is at hand for Ravel from pianist

Steven Osborne, and Strauss’s sublime Four Last Songs sung by Sophie Bevan.

Francesca Chiejina joins the Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective for songs by Alma Mahler.

And among a fine crop of pianists making their way to St James’s Church are Pierre-
Laurent Aimard, Marc-André Hamelin and festival patron Paul Lewis.

Stamford International Music Festival

Stamford Arts Centre, 16-18 May

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Sharing its musical favours between the town’s Georgian Arts Centre and imposing St

Martin’s Church, violinist Freya Goldmark’s compact celebration of chamber music returns
as wide-ranging as ever. A Bohemian thread stretches from Smetana in the first concert

to Dvořák in the last; and as well as Janáček’s Pohádka there’s a re-imagining, for string
quartet and clarinet, of his piano cycle On an Overgrown Path.

Bath Festival

Bath, 17-26 May

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Party in the City has become something of a Bath speciality, and with over

20,000 attendees last year, it fires the starting gun on a festival that combines the
erstwhile music and literary festivals. At the heart of this year’s music programme is artist-