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 17 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 seventeenth 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 five ‘single’ rooms on allocation which have a single bed and up to 5 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 bed frame. We can request rooms with balcony or panoramic windows for an additional £90 (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 six included concerts (and four optional ones) are shown below and feature a wonderful array of world-class artists including Sir Andras Schiff, Paul Lewis, Thomas Hampson, Renaud Capuçon, Edgar Moreau & Guillaume Chilemme as well as the Paval Hass Quartet.
Gasthof Sonne in Bezau is your base for nine nights with direct flights from Manchester 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 3rd 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! Tina Bywater who has attended every Shubertaide for the past 20+ years is happy to assist duing your stay with planning your day to day activities and giving advice.
Concert Information: A total of six Concerts are included- the five shown in bold below plus your choice of one more shown in blue. If you wish to add more from the list the cost is £80 per performance. 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 23rd June – 11am
Pavel Haas Quartett
Alois Posch - Double bass
Boris Giltburg - piano
Ludwig van Beethoven: String Quartet in C, op. 59/3
Franz Schubert: Piano Quintet in A, D 667 »Forellenquintett«
Sunday 23rd June – 8pm
Thomas Hampson - Baritone
Wolfram Rieger - Piano
Gustav Mahler: Lieder from »Des Knaben Wunderhorn«
Monday 24th June – 8pm
Gabriel Le Magadure - Violin
Raphaël Merlin - cello
Shani Diluka - Piano
Robert Schumann: Adagio and Allegro in A-flat for cello and piano, op. 70
Edvard Grieg: Violin Sonata in C minor, op. 45
Franz Schubert: Piano Trio Movement in E-flat, D 897 »Notturno«; Piano Trio in E-flat, D 929
Tuesday 25th June – 4pm
Renaud Capuçon - Violin
David Fray - Piano
Johann Sebastian Bach: Violin Sonata in E, BWV 1016; Violin Sonata in C minor, BWV 1017; Violin Sonata in F minor, BWV 1018
Ludwig van Beethoven: Violin Sonata in A, op. 47 »Kreutzer-Sonate«
Tuesday 25th June – 8pm
Christiane Karg - Soprano
Sophie Rennert - Mezzo-soprano
Mauro Peter - Tenor
Andrè Schuen - Baritone
Helmut Deutsch - piano
Julius Drake - Piano
Johannes Brahms: »Liebeslieder-Walzer«; Three Quartets, op. 31 (Wechsellied zum Tanze, Neckereien, Der Gang zum Liebchen); Three Quartets, op. 64 (An die Heimat, Der Abend, Fragen); Four Quartets, op. 92 (O schöne Nacht!, Spätherbst, Abendlied, Warum?); »Neue Liebeslieder-Walzer«
Wednesday 26th June – 8pm
Renaud Capuçon - violin
Guillaume Chilemme - Violin
Adrien La Marca - Viola
Edgar Moreau - cello
Johannes Brahms: String Quartet in C minor, op. 51/1; String Quartet in A minor, op. 51/2
Thursday 27th June – 4pm
Andrè Schuen - Baritone
Daniel Heide - Piano
Franz Schubert: »Schwanengesang« (Lieder on poems by Ludwig Rellstab and Heinrich Heine), Herbst (D 945), Lieder on poems by Johann Gabriel Seidl (Bei dir allein, Der Wanderer an den Mond, Wiegenlied, Am Fenster, Die Taubenpost)
Friday 28th June – 8pm
Sir András Schiff - Director & piano
Robert Holl - Bass
Sophie Rennert - Mezzosoprano
Johannes Bamberger, Jan Petryka, David Jagodic, Markus Miesenberger - Tenors
Clemens Kölbl, Georg Klimbacher - Baritones
Yves Brühwiler - Bass-baritone
Hariolf Schlichtig, Yuuko Shiokawa - Viola
Rafael Rosenfeld, Xenia Jankovic - cello
Brita Bürgschwendtner - Double bass
Franz Schubert: Gesang der Geister über den Wassern (D 714), Grenzen der Menschheit,
Im Gegenwärtigen Vergangenes, Der Jüngling und der Tod, Mondenschein, Der blinde Knabe, Ständchen (D 920), Die Nachtigall, Gondelfahrer (D 809), Der Jüngling auf dem Hügel, Totengräbers Heimwehe, Nachthelle, Zur guten Nacht, Gesang der Geister über den Wassern (D 714)
Saturday 29th June – 4pm
Paul Lewis - Piano
Joseph Haydn: Sonata in E minor, Hob. XVI:34
Franz Schubert: From »Moments musicaux«, D 780
Ludwig van Beethoven: »Diabelli-Variations«, op. 120
Sunday 30th June – 11am
Sir András Schiff - Piano
Franz Schubert: Sonata in A minor, D 845; Sonata in D, D 850 »Gasteiner Sonate«; Sonata in G, D 894
For complete performance details see
https://www.schubertiade.at/sparte/schubertiade-schwarzenberg-juni-2019.html
flight details:
22 June Manchester - Zurich depart 0845 arrive 1145 LX 391 (Swiss)
01 July Zurich - Manchester depart 1710 arrive 1805 LX 380 (Swiss)
flight options are also available from Heathrow, Gatwick & Birmingham
Important Note on Deposit payment
For this holiday the deposit is £900 (which includes your £500 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.
