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Cheltenham Festival

Cheltenham, 6-13 July
cheltenhamfestivals.com

With the composer’s birth house just a short stroll from the elegant Pittville Pump Room,
the festival was never going to forget Holst 150. From a musical tour of Holst’s Cheltenham

to the Hymn of Jesus in Gloucester Cathedral and the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic
Orchestra in the Edwardian Town Hall, he’s roundly fêted.

Other composers apply. Sean Shibe introduces a new guitar concerto by Cassandra Miller,

and he joins the now-trademark Mixtape melange alongside pianist Clare Hammond, the
Chaos String Quartet and the choir of Merton College, Oxford. The Dunedin Consort traces

the Scottish-Canadian diaspora, while the green-fingered Marian Consort takes a trowel to
Spain’s late-Renaissance choral horticulture.

Ryedale Festival

North Yorkshire, 12-28 July
ryedalefestival.com
The Castle Howard triple-decker concert has long been one of Ryedale’s hot tickets, but

this year the house’s architecture comes in for special scrutiny in a new work by Sarah
Frances Jenkins. Contemporary music flourishes, with UK and world premieres including a

new string quartet from Julian Anderson and piano trios by Gabriel Prokofiev and Robert
Zuidam.

At Ampleforth Abbey, Tenebrae performs the Howells Requiem, the Royal Northern

Sinfonia prove themselves single-minded Mozartians in seaside Scarborough, and artist-in-
residence Fleur Barron fuses kabuki theatre with Schubert’s Winterreise in her Spring

Snow project.

BBC Proms

London, 19 July-14 September

bbc.co.uk/proms
There was valedictory Mahler, Mozart in C minor and ‘Orrible Opera’ at last year’s Proms.
Anniversaries were observed, visiting orchestras welcomed, and sometimes forsaking

sunny South Kensington, the moveable feast took to the road. The 2024 edition is
announced on 25 April. Check the website for details.

Music at Paxton

Berwick-upon-Tweed, 19-28 July
musicatpaxton.co.uk