Acknowledgements

Stour Music is grateful to the Vicar & PCC of All Saints’ for allowing the festival to be held in the church; to Mr & Mrs Hugh Summerfield of Boughton Court for (amongst many acts of kindness and support) use of their land to accommodate the festival marquee; to Mr & Mrs Bay Green for use of their field for car parking; to Rosemary Nicholson for the floral displays in the church, and the Friends of Stour Music for their continued support. In particular this year, we wish to thank the following for generous financial support in sponsoring specific concerts: Mrs Rene Batchelor, Paul & Janet Batchelor, The Hon. Mrs Jenefer Dean, David Humphreys, Mrs Peggy Reid, Anna Shuttleworth, The Sir John Swire 1989 Charitable Trust, the Stour Festival Company, and an anonymous donor for very generous sponsorship towards the production of The Pardoner’s Tale.

All information on this site was correct at time of preparation, but Stour Music reserves the right to make changes without prior notice, where unforeseen circumstances dictate.

With thanks (for 2011 material) to Ricardo Alcaide (La Serenissima), Lewis Brockway, Chris Christolodolou (London Handel Players), Dmitri Gutjar (The Cardinall’s Musick), Paul Hurst (Adrian Chandler), Nigel Luckhurst (Michael Chance), Eric Richmond (I Fagiolini, Peter Phillips), Jorge Romero (Joglaresa). Virgin and Child, Luis de Morales, Prado, Madrid, Spain/The Bridgeman Art Library; The Pardoner, detail from The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer, Private Collection/The Bridgeman Art Library; Pilgrims Leaving Canterbury, British Library/The Bridgeman Art Library; The Burial of Count Orgaz, El Greco, Toledo, S.Tome, Spain/Giraudon/The Bridgeman Art Library; Antonio Vivaldi, Civico Museo Bibliografico Musicale, Bologna, Italy/Alinari/The Bridgeman Art Library; The Visit of the Queen of Sheba to King Solomon, Sir Edward John Poynter, Private Collection/The Stapleton Collection/The Bridgeman Art Library.

With thanks (for 2010 material) to Richard Beaugié, Lewis Brockway, Kent Messenger, Peter Olsen (Michala Petri), Pete Thomas and Kenneth Saunders (The King’s Consort) for the use of photographs.

With thanks (for 2009 material) to Lewis Brockway, John Buckman (Gonzaga Band), Hanya Chlala (Jonathan Manson), Richard Haughton (OAE), Eric Richmond (OAE), Stefan Schweiger (Clare Wilkinson), Pete Thomas, Edward Webb (Fretwork), Franz Peter Schubert, Wien Museum Karlsplatz / The Bridgeman Art Library; Mary Magdalene Playing the Lute, Hamburger Kunsthalle / The Bridgeman Art Library; A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Museum of the City of New York / The Bridgeman Art Library; Rome Seen on a Grand Tour, Private Collection / David Ker Fine Art, London / The Bridgeman Art Library; Henry Purcell after John Closterman, © National Portrait Gallery, London.

With thanks (for 2008 material) to Ricardo Alcaide (La Serenissima), Marco Borggreve (Mark Padmore), Lewis Brockway, Helmut Engelke (Simon Standage), Mark Harrison (The Sixteen), Richard Haughton (Elizabeth Kenny), Christine Hodgson & Zohar (Eclipse), Kent Messenger, and Pete Thomas for use of photographs. Elizabeth I, Armada portrait, Private Collection/The Bridgeman Art Library; Fishermen upon a lee-shore in squally weather by JMW Turner, Southampton City Art Gallery/The Bridgeman Art Library; Maids and Winged Hearts, by The Master of Lyons, British Library/The Bridgeman Art Library; The Battle of Trafalgar, Private Collection/The Stapleton Collection/The Bridgeman Art Library.

With thanks (for 2007 material) to Lewis Brockway, Pete Thomas, Richard Beaugié, Malcolm Crowthers, Oylin Ozmete, Eric Richmond, Hanya Chala, Paul White and Kentish Express (Dave Downey) for the use of photographs. Also for kind permission to use artwork: Fabian Negrim/Bloomsbury The Selfish Giant and Robert Lawson/Hamish Hamilton Ferdinand.