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Stile Antico delivers a concert trilogy in a single day; the Sitkovetsky Trio also appears in
triplicate; and Paul Lewis performs Schubert’s last three piano sonatas.

Lichfield Festival

Lichfield, 4-14 July
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When it comes to associate artists, the festival in the city of Dr Johnson’s birth can call on a
veritable dictionary of in-post performers. Among them, the BBC National Symphony
Orchestra of Wales remembers Holst 150 with Egdon Heath; the Brodskys traverse the

complete Shostakovich string quartet cycle; and, in the medieval cathedral, pianist Danny
Driver plays candlelit Bach.

Deal Festival

Deal, Kent, 4-14 July
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With responses to Bach’s Brandenburg Concertos by composers including Brian Elias and
composer-in-residence Florence Anna Maunders spliced into Chamber Domaine’s
traversal of the complete set, Deal all but wraps up an edition charting French Connections

in film and music.

The theme is apt. From the pier, spotting boats ferrying cross-Channel connections every

few minutes is inescapable! Soprano Lucy Crowe combines a little French je ne sais
quoi with songs by Schubert and Handel, and the Fidelio Trio dons life jackets for Sally
Beamish’s ingenious piano trio reimagining of Debussy’s La Mer.

York Early Music Festival

York, 6-13 July
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‘Metamorfosi’ is the motto for York’s eight-day delve into the human voice – from medieval
to Baroque and the South American beyond. Concerto Soave explores the vocal side of

Frescobaldi; The Sixteen pursue parody in Lassus; the Gesualdo Six are on the trail
of Josquin’s legacy right up to a recent work by Indian-American composer Shruthi
Rajasekar; and Vox Luminis seeks the sacred in Monteverdi.

Florilegium, meanwhile, fetches up at the early-18th-century French Court, and the
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment enjoys a convivial evening at Zimmermann’s Leipzig

coffee house.