Other great festivals
Sheffield Chamber Festival 10-18 May Ensemble 360 is the mainstay of a festival concerned with story-telling. Death haunts Stephen Hough’s piano recital, and Schubert’s Trout is hooked.
Tel: +44 (0)114 249 6000
Web: www.musicintheround.co.uk
English Haydn Festival 5-8 June
‘Haydn’s Friends, Patrons and Colleagues’ populate Bridgnorth’s nod to the Austrian composer curated by Steven Devine.
Tel: +44 (0)7547 289704
Web: www.englishhaydn.com
Northern Aldborough Festival 13-22 June After-show sessions in The Shed punctuate a Yorkshire jamboree that prefaces Courtney Pine with Handel’s Semele.
Tel: +44 (0)1423 900979
Web: www.aldboroughfestival.co.uk Gower Festival 1-13 July
The Welsh peninsula’s ancient churches welcome pianists Llˆyr Williams and Ji Liu plus the Carducci Quartet and London Conchord Ensemble.
Tel: +44 (0)1792 475715
Web: www.gowerfestival.org
Lichfield Festival 5-13 July
A Midlands midsummer brings Shostakovich from the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, a Mozartian grand tour and a new piece by Jonathan Dove.
Tel: +44 (0)1543 306150
Web: www.lichfieldfestival.org
Lake District Summer Music Festival
27 July – 9 August
Celebrate adopted Lakelander John Ruskin’s bicentenary and anniversarians Leonardo da Vinci and Clara Schumann. Tel: +44 (0)1539 742621
Web: www.ldsm.org.uk
Machynlleth Festival 18-25 August A market day open-air concert raises the curtain on a week luring pianists Marcandré Hamelin and Pavel Kolesnikov.
Tel: +44 (0)1654 703355
Web: www.machynllethfestival.co.uk