Other great festivals
Newbury Spring Festival 9-23 May
Revel in all-beethoven programmes from the BBC Symphony Orchestra, pianist John Lill and the Vienna Chamber Symphony.
Tel: +44 (0)845 521 8218
Web: www.newburyspringfestival.org.uk Salisbury Festival 22 May-7 June Celebrating the 800th anniversary of the founding of modern Salisbury, the festival includes Howard Moody’s Stone Songs,a choral love-letter to the Cathedral.
Tel: +44 (0)1722 320333
Web: www.wiltshirecreative.co.uk
English Music Festival 22-25 May
Catch an Elgar world premiere from the BBC Concert Orchestra in a Dorchester weekend spanning music from Purcell to Adès.
Tel: +44 (0)7808 473889
Web: www.englishmusicfestival.org.uk Festival of Chichester 13 June – 12 July Amid a month-long jamboree mustering over 200 events, violinist Clio Gould sets Vaughan Williams’s The Lark Ascending.
Tel: +44 (0)1243 816525
Web: www.festivalofchichester.co.uk Peasmarsh Festival 25-28 June
Nearing its quarter-century, the Sussex Festival dispenses choice chamber music in the village’s Norman church. In nearby Rye, Britten Sinfonia scintillates.
Tel: +44 (0)1797 253178
Web: www.peasmarshfestival.co.uk
Deal Festival 26 June-11 July
South coast bound, trumpeter Alison Balsom, violinist Rachel Podger and saxophonist Jess Gillam embody Deal’s exploration of ‘Creative Women’.
Tel: +44 (0)1304 370220
Web: www.dealmusicandarts.com
JAM on the Marsh 1-11 July
Among other highlights, John Frederick Hudson and the London Mozart Players premiere Paul Mealor’s Piano Concerto.
Tel: (0)800 988 7984
Web: www.jamconcert.org