If you've never been to the Schubertiade think of a pretty village (with it's own cablecar) in the Austrian Bregenzerwald, surrounded by beautiful scenery of the Vorarlberg; a charming family run hotel with excellent food (that Maestro clients have been enjoying for the past 16 years); fresh air, lovely walks, cable cars and wonderful leider recitals and chamber music in Schwarzenberg just 20 minutes away by Schubertiade coach.
The Schubertiade Festival takes place twice each summer in the nearby town of Schwarzenberg in the beautiful setting of the Angelika Kauffman Concert Hall with concerts at 11am, 4pm & 8pm most days. The local villages have organised an excellent Schubertiade coach transfer service for all concerts and you will be transfered from the church in Bezau (just 5 minutes walk from the Sonne) 40 minutes prior to each concert and back again afterwards.
This will be our sixteenth year at the Gasthof Sonne with the ‘family Meusburger’. The Sonne is a typical gasthof situated beside a stream just 200 metres flat walk from centre of the village. All rooms have private facilities (some with walk-in shower – please note on your booking form if this is important to you). We have three ‘single’ rooms on allocation which have a single bed and up to 8 double rooms for sole use as well as a further block of double rooms for double or twin use. Just a note on the twins – although they are two separate mattresses with separate duvets, they are within a single wooden bead frame. We can request rooms with balcony or panoramic windows for an additional £80 (per room per stay not per person). If you want to request this please mark it on your Booking Form and we will reconfirm back to you once we hear back from the hotel.
Details of the five included concerts (and three optional ones) are shown below and feature a wonderful array of world-class artists including Paul Lewis, Thomas Hampson, Renaud Capuçon, Edgar Moreau, Marc-André Hamelin & Igor Levit. On Sunday July 1st what better way to end our visit than with two Schubert Trio’s before we head to Zurich Airport!
Gasthof Sonne in Bezau is your base for eight nights with direct flights from Manchester and Heathrow to Zurich included as well as private coach transfers from Zurich to Bezau and back. 20kg baggage and reserved seats included.
Die Sonne, in classic Austrian gasthof style, is run by Andrea & Christian Meusburger - the third generation of the same family. The hotel features:
• true single rooms with single bed
• double rooms for sole use
• double/twins for two. Please note that the double/twins are made up with a double bedframe and two mattresses.
Some rooms have balcony (on request only at additional cost, limited availability). There is a lift to most rooms but some require one flight of stairs to reach them. Porterage of your luggage in and out is included but please let us know if you have any difficulties in respect of the staircase.
Half board is included and dinner is served either early or late to coincide with concert time.
The holiday is intended to be an unstructured and relaxing break - ideal for those of you who enjoy the fresh air and great outdoors (or just want to relax in a lovely setting and look forward to glorious music in the late afternoon or evenings).
the holiday is a little different to the usual Maestro offering in that apart from an escorted tour on the 2nd day the holiday is very much ‘go as you please’ allowing you to relax on the terrace of the hotel and read or to use your provided ‘travel pass’ and take the local postbus to Lake Constance and Bregenz or as far as Lech or Werth and to ride many of the cable-cars of the region. The local bus links the Seilbahn cable car of Bezau and the cable car at Mellau and stops right outside the hotel. If you love the great outdoors, fresh air, wonderful views and exceptional music this could be the perfect holiday for you. If you’re a shopaholic then perhaps not!
Concert Information: The five Concerts in red are included and the three in Blue are optional. There are many more concerts during our stay and you can see details using the Schubertiade link below. If there is a particular concert you would like to add please let us know and we will do our best to secure tickets for you.
Sunday 24th June – 8pm
Thomas Hampson - Baritone
Wolfram Rieger - Piano
- Franz Schubert: An die Leier, Der entsühnte Orest, Lied eines Schiffers an die Dioskuren, Memnon, Der zürnenden Diana, Fahrt zum Hades, Gruppe aus dem Tartarus, Freiwilliges Versinken, Strophe aus »Die Götter Griechenlands«
- Alban Berg: Sieben frühe Lieder
- Gustav Mahler: Five Lieder on poems by Friedrich Rückert
Anja Harteros - Soprano
Wolfram Rieger - Piano
- The programme will be announced later.
Paul Lewis - Piano
- Ludwig van Beethoven: Eleven Bagatelles, op. 119
- Joseph Haydn: Piano Sonata in E-flat, Hob. XVI:49
- Franz Schubert: Impromptu in A-flat, D 935/2; Ungarische Melodie in B minor, D 817
- Johannes Brahms: Four Piano Pieces, op. 119
Renaud Capuçon - Violin
Guillaume Chilemme - Violin
Adrien La Marca - Viola
Gérard Caussé - Viola
Edgar Moreau –cello
- Johannes Brahms: String Quintet in F, op. 88; String Quintet in G, op. 111
Elias String Quartet
Paul Lewis - Piano
- Franz Schubert: String Quartet Movement in C minor, D 703
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Piano Concerto in A, KV 414
- Franz Schubert: String Quartet in D minor, D 810 »Der Tod und das Mädchen
Marc-André Hamelin – Piano
- Ludwig van Beethoven: Adelaide (arranged for solo piano by Franz Liszt)
- Franz Schubert: Sonata in A, D 959
- Robert Schumann: Fantasy in C, op. 17
Christoph Prégardien - Tenor
Malcolm Martineau - Piano
- Franz Schubert: »Die schöne Müllerin«
Igor Levit - Piano
Ning Feng - Violin
Daniel Müller-Schott - cello
- Franz Schubert: Piano Trio in B-flat, D 898; Piano Trio in E-flat, D 929
For complete performance details see
http://www.schubertiade.at/sparte/schubertiade-schwarzenberg-juni-juli-2018.html
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Important Note on Deposit payment
For this holiday the deposit is £800 (which includes your £400 ticket subscription which we have to pay immediately to the Schubertiade).
In the event that you have to cancel we will try and resell the entire package but otherwise we can only return your tickets to the Schubertiade for resale but we will not know what has and has not been sold until after the festival has concluded so any refund of resold tickets will occur in September. Any refund of tickets will be less 25% to cover the Schubertiade fees and handling charges.
For complete performance details see
http://www.schubertiade.at/sparte/schubertiade-schwarzenberg-juni-juli-2018.html
