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Palladian perfection meets bucolic bliss where Paxton House nestles high above the
Tweed. And for ten days every summer in its marbled picture gallery, painting and music

mingle. Artists-in-residence the Consone Quartet oblige with three concerts, the last
swelling the quartet’s numbers to accommodate the Scottish premiere of Gavin

Bryars’s The Bridges of Königsberg. There’s a Bach walk with violinist Tamsin Waley-
Cohen; Ensemble Hesperi takes a ramble through 18th-century London; and a veritable

smörgåsbord of world musics collide with Corelli and Piazzolla as Kosmos nurtures
diversity.

Summer at Snape

Snape Maltings, 26 July-31 August

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Scarcely has The Maltings got its breath back after June’s Aldeburgh extravaganza than

Snape’s freewheeling summer sequel arrives – trailing an eclectic musical mix, family-
friendly frolics and a shout-out for the visual arts. Vilde Frang performs Elgar’s Violin

Concerto with the LSO under Antonio Pappano; the Gesualdo Six dispenses choice vocal
music sacred and secular; and Gambian multi-instrumentalist-singer Sona Jobarteh joins
those creating the soundtrack to a Suffolk summer.

Lake District Summer Music

Cumbria, 26 July-4 August
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As Lake District Summer Music approaches its 40th edition, the natural world is
beckoning. And, enveloped by glorious lakes and fells, the call is heeded. Part walk,

workshop and informal concert, the Aurora Percussion Duo sounds the forest; and in
Hawkshead, framed by Purcell, the Alkyona String Quartet and mezzo Jess Dandy trace the
trajectory of ‘Sunrise to Sunset’.

Fretwork and soprano Ruby Hughes also favour Purcellian bookends; and on her farewell
tour, pianist Kathryn Stott includes a new piece by Graham Fitkin.

Three Choirs Festival

Worcester, 27 July-3 August

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Alternating between Gloucester, Hereford and Worcester, the Three Choirs Festival was

something of a spiritual home for Holst. And in this anniversary year, both the Hymn of
Jesus and The Cloud Messenger feature in a festival whose environmental theme also

encompasses the Stanford centenary.