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CONCERTS IN 2008

CONCERTS IN THE ANTIBES SACRED MUSIC FESTIVAL

Friday 8 February 2008 · 8.30 pm

L'église St Michel, Grimaud (département du Vars), France

  • Antonio Lotti, Crucifixus (à 8)
  • Eustache du Caurroy, Ave Maria
  • James MacMillan, Christus vincit
  • Francis Poulenc, Gloria and Sanctus (Messe en sol)
  • W.A. Mozart, 2 canons for upper voices (Ave Maria and Alleluia)
  • Thomas Tallis, Lamentations I
  • Samuel Barber, Agnus Dei
  • William Byrd, Laudibus in sanctis
  • Hubert Parry, Lord let me know mine end
  • Francis Poulenc, Agnus Dei (Messe en sol)
  • J.S. Bach, Der Geist hilft
  • Gregorio Allegri, Miserere mei

Saturday 9 February 2008 · 9.00 pm

Cathédrale Notre-Dame-de-la-Platea, Antibes, Côte d'Azur, France

Programme as above

Thursday 22 May 2008 · 7.00 pm

Cadogan Hall, 5 Sloane Terrace, London SW1X 9DQ

Haydn, The Creation

Joanne Lunn soprano, Mark Milhofer tenor, David Stout bass
The Choir of New College, Oxford
The Oxford Philomusic
directed by Marios Papadopoulos

Tickets: £30, £23, £17, £10
Box office: Tel: 020 7730 4500
online booking (link opens a new window)

Concert in the York Early Music Festival

Thursday 10 July 2008 · 7.30 pm

St Michael le Belfrey Church, High Petergate, York

New College Choir, with the Saraband Consort, directed by Edward Higginbottom

Royalty in Exile

    Catholic Queens in Protestant England, 1660 - 1688

  • Matthew Locke, Super flumina Babylonis
  • Matthew Locke, Audi, Domine, clamantes ad te
  • Henry Purcell, Beati omnes
  • Henry Purcell, Jehova quam multi sunt hostes mei
  • Innocenzo Fede, Laudate pueri

    Stuart Kings in Catholic France, 1688 -

  • François Couperin, Exultent superi [Motet de Sainte Suzanne]
  • François Couperin, Precatio ad Deum
  • François Couperin, Lauda Sion
  • François Couperin, Sonate La ‘Visionnaire’
  • François Couperin, Resonent organa (pro Sancta Caecilia)

This programme examines the music written for performance in royal chapels in foreign lands. It presents music of the second half of the 17th century associated with Catholic queens in England, and the Stuart monarchy in France; the first in religious exile, the second in political. Here is music written by English composers to Latin texts (clearly never intended for the Protestant liturgy), music written to the celebrated Biblical account of exile in Exodus (Super flumina Babylonis), and music written for the exiled Stuart Court in France at St Germain en Laye.
The concert will be relayed on the BBC Early Music Show on 13 July

Tickets: £20 reserved central nave, unreserved seats £15 side aisles and balcony (£13 concessions) from:
National Centre for Early Music Tel: 01904 658338
www.ncem.co.uk
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Summer Tour Concerts

Concert in the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Festival

Friday 18 July 2008 · 7.30 pm

St Marien, Bergen, Isle of Rugen

Treasures of Sacred Choral Music

  • John Taverner, Mater Christi
  • Thomas Tallis, In ieiunio et fletu
  • William Byrd, Laudibus in sanctis
  • William Byrd, Ave verum corpus
  • William Byrd, Haec dies
  • Henry Purcell, Hear my prayer
  • William Boyce, Come holy ghost
  • Henry Purcell, Remember not, Lord
  • Thomas Tallis, Lamentations I
  • Nicholas Ludford, Ave cuius conceptio
  • Antonio Lotti, Crucifixus (à 8)
  • James MacMillan, Christus vincit
  • Francis Poulenc, Sanctus (Messe en sol)
  • Olivier Messiaen, O sacrum convivium
  • Henrik Górecki, Totus tuus
  • William Harris, Faire is the heav’n
  • Gregorio Allegri, Miserere mei

Concert in the Festival de Masevaux, France

Sunday 20 July 2008 · 5.30 pm

Eglise Saint-Martin de Masevaux

Grandes Heures Liturgiques

  • John Taverner (c.1490-1545), Mater Christi
  • Thomas Tallis (c.1505-1585), In ieiunio et fletu
  • William Byrd (c.1539-1623), Laudibus in sanctis
  • William Byrd, Fantaisie en la, pour orgue
  • William Byrd, Haec dies
  • Henry Purcell (1659-1695), Hear my prayer
  • Henry Purcell , Voluntary for double organ
  • Henry Purcell , Remember not, Lord
  • Henry Purcell, Remember not, Lord
  • Thomas Tallis, Lamentations I
  • Nicholas Ludford (c.1485-1557), Ave cuius conceptio
  • Antonio Lotti (1667-1740), Crucifixus (à 8)
  • James MacMillan (b.1959), Christus vincit
  • Francis Poulenc (1899-1963), Sanctus (Messe en sol)
  • Gabriel Fauré (1845-1924), Cantique de Jean Racine
  • Henrik Górecki (b.1933), Totus tuus
  • Johannes Brahms (1833-1897), Wie lieblich sind diene Wohnungen
  • Gregorio Allegri (1582-1652), Miserere mei

Concert in the Festival ‘Les très riches heures de l’orgue en Berry’

Tuesday 22 July 2008

Cathedral of St Etienne, Bourges

Les très riches heures de la musique sacrée

  • John Taverner, Mater Christi
  • Thomas Tallis, In ieiunio et fletu
  • William Byrd, Laudibus in sanctis
  • William Byrd, Fantasia in A minor (organ)
  • William Byrd, Haec dies
  • Henry Purcell, Hear my prayer
  • Henry Purcell, Voluntary for double organ (organ)
  • Henry Purcell, Remember not, Lord
  • Thomas Tallis, Lamentations I
  • Nicholas Ludford, Ave cuius conceptio
  • Antonio Lotti, Crucifixus (à 8)
  • James MacMillan, Christus vincit
  • Francis Poulenc, Sanctus (Messe en sol)
  • Olivier Messiaen, Joie et clarté (organ)
  • Henrik Górecki, Totus tuus
  • Edward Elgar, Sonata in G major (mov. I)(organ)
  • Gregorio Allegri, Miserere mei

Concert in the Festival du Haut Limousin

Wednesday 23 July 2008 · 9.00 pm

Collégiale Le Dorat

Programme as for Tuesday 22nd

Concert in the Festival de La Vezère

Friday 25 July 2008 · 9.00 pm

Collégiale Saint-Martin, Brive

Programme as for Friday 18

Opening concert of the Ambronay Festival 2008

Saturday September 20 2008 · 8.30 pm

Abbatiale d'Ambronay, 01500 Ambronay, France

Odes à Sainte Cecile

  • Purcell, Sonata for Trumpet and Strings
  • Charpentier, Caecilia virgo [part one]
  • Purcell, Chacony in G minor
  • Charpentier, Caecilia virgo [part two]

  • Purcell, Ode on St Cecilia's Day (1692)

Susan Gilmour Bailey soprano | David Alsopp countertenor
Mark Dobell, Nicholas Mulroy tenors | Matthew Brooks bass
David Blackadder trumpet
The Choir of New College, Oxford
Collegium Novum (leader Simon Jones)
directed by Edward Higginbottom

Concerts in Hungary

Monday October 6 2008 · 7.00 pm

János Richter Hall, Györ

Claudio Monteverdi, Vespers of the Blessed Virgin

Grace Davidson, Susan Gilmour Bailey sopranos
Mark Dobell, Thomas Hobbs tenors
The Choir of New College, Oxford
Charivari Agréable (Kah-Ming Ng musical director)
directed by Edward Higginbottom

Tuesday October 7 2008 · 7.30 pm

Ferenc Liszt Academy, Budapest

Programme and soloists as October 6

Thursday December 11 2008 · 7.30 pm

Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford

Christmas Concert

A programme of Christmas music and readings, in aid of the Pendyffryn Trust

concert poster

Tickets £40, £30, £20, £15:
Oxford Playhouse Box Office 01865 305305
| Tickets Oxford

Christmas concerts in Italy

Wednesday December 17 2008 · 8.30 pm

Lozzo di Cadore, Auditorium Communale

Thursday December 18 · 8.30 pm

Vicenza, Basilica San Felice e Fortunato

Friday December 19 · 8.30 pm

Verona, Cattedrale di Santa Maria Matricolare

Nativitas

  • Drop down ye heavens (Advent Prose)

Promise of Redemption

  • Appalachian song arr. Carter, I wonder as I wander
  • Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Alma redemptoris

Annunciation

  • John Joubert, There is no rose
  • Anton Bruckner, Ave Maria
  • Basque carol arr. Pettman, The angel Gabriel
  • Anton Bruckner, Virga Jesse floruit

Journey to Bethlehem

  • Michael Head, The little road to Bethlehem
  • Henry Gauntlett, arr Mann, Once in royal David’s city

Birth of Jesus

  • William Byrd, Puer natus est nobis
  • Medieval German carol, arr. R.L. Pearsall, In dulci jubilo
  • Morten Lauridsen, O magnum mysterium
  • Francis Poulenc, Hodie Christus natus est

Visit of the shepherds

  • J.C.F. Bach, Gloria sei dir gesungen
  • Francis Poulenc, Quem vidistis, pastores
  • Franz Gruber, arr. Carter, Stille Nacht
  • Czech traditional carol, arr. Higginbottom, Rocking

Visit of the Magi

  • Peter Gritton, Follow that star
  • Francis Poulenc, Videntes stellam
  • Herbert Howells, Here is the little door
  • Peter Cornelius, The three kings

Envoi

  • Peter Wishart, Alleluya, a new work is come on hand
  • Piae cantiones, arr Willcocks, Of the father’s heart begotten

Tickets & info | Cariverona Foundation

Sunday December 21 2008 · 12 noon

Venice, Basilica di San Marco

Short contribution of Christmas music to midday Mass

CONCERTS IN 2009

Saturday 7 March

New College Chapel, Oxford · 7.30 pm

Concert in aid of the Medical Foundation for the Victims of Torture

Crucifixus pro nobis

  • Antonio Lotti, Crucifixus pro nobis
  • Gerald Finzi, Lo, the full, final sacrifice
  • Thomas Tallis, Lamentations I
  • Kenneth Leighton, Crucifius pro nobis

  • Hubert Parry, Lord, let me know mine end
  • Gregorio Allegri, Miserere mei

Sunday 15 March

New College Chapel, Oxford · 3.00 pm

Handel, Messiah Part II · a liturgical performance

Easter concerts in Cyprus

Tuesday April 7

Markideion Theatre, Paphos

Handel, Messiah

Margarita Elia soprano, William Purefoy alto
Nicholas Mulroy tenor, Thomas Kennedy bass

New College Choir
Cyprus Symphony Orchestra
conducted by Edward Higginbottom

Wednesday April 8

Strovolos Municipal Theatre, Strovolos, Nicosia

Handel, Messiah

Margarita Elia soprano, William Purefoy alto
Nicholas Mulroy tenor, Thomas Kennedy bass

New College Choir
Cyprus Symphony Orchestra
conducted by Edward Higginbottom

Concerts in Lorraine, May 7-9

Thursday May 7 · 8.00 pm

Eglise S. Jacques, Lunéville, 54329 France

Joyaux de la musique anglaise

Les deux renaissances

  • Nicholas Ludford, Domine Jesu Christe
  • Thomas Tallis, Sancte Deus
  • William Byrd, Tribue Domine
  • Nicholas Ludford, Ave cuius conceptio
  • Julian Anderson, O sing unto the Lord
  • Jonathan Dove, Into thy hands
  • Benjamin Britten, A hymn to the Virgin
  • John Tavener, Song for Athene
  • Tarik O’Regan, Surrexit Christus
  • James Macmillan, Christus vincit

Friday May 8 · 5.00 pm

Abbaye de Senones, Saint Die les Vosges, 88210 France

Le Génie d’Henri Purcell

Concert sung by Maîtrise de la Cathédrale de Metz and New College Choir
Directed by Edward Higginbottom

Part One: The Choir of New College Oxford

  • Hear my prayer, O Lord
  • Jehova, quam multi sunt hostes mei
  • Beati omnes
  • O dive custos (2 trebles)
  • Now that the sun (countertenor)
  • O sing unto the Lord (with string orchestra)

Part Two: The Choirs of Metz and New College Oxford

  • Te Deum laudamus
  • Chacony (for strings)
  • Jubilate Deo

Saturday May 9 · 8.00 pm

Eglise S. Rémi, Scy Chazelles, 57160 France

Joyaux de la musique anglaise

Programme as for May 7

Saturday 30 May · 7.30 pm

Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford

Haydn, The Creation

Mhairi Lawson soprano, Rufus Müller tenor, Giles Underwood bass
The Choir of New College, Oxford
Oxford Philomusica
directed by Edward Higginbottom

On the eve of the 200th anniversary of the death of Joseph Haydn, New College Choir and Oxford Philomusica give a performance of this enduring masterpiece. The recording with the same forces, recently released on the Oxford Philomusica's own label, was acclaimed Choral CD of the Month in the December BBC Music Magazine. To purchase a copy online direct from New College Choir, visit the recent releases page.

Concerts in Germany, July 18/19

Saturday July 18 · 8.15 pm

Dom St Blasien,
St Blasien - Menzenschwand, D -79872 St. Blasien, Germany

O sing unto the Lord

Steven Grahl organ, The Choir of New College, Oxford
directed by Edward Higginbottom

Part One presents the music of the pre-reformation masters working in England, including the recently discovered Nicholas Ludford. New College Choir has recently recorded Ludford’s music, with a CD which won the 2008 Gramophone award for early music. Part Two examines another musical renaissance in English church music, that of the last twenty or so years.

Part One

  • William Byrd, Tribue Domine (1575)
  • Thomas Tallis, Sancte Deus
  • Organ: William Byrd, Clarifica me Pater
  • Thomas Tallis, In ieunio et fletu (1575)
  • Nicholas Ludford, Ave cuius conceptio

Part Two

  • Julian Anderson, O sing unto the Lord
  • Jonathan Dove, Into thy hands
  • John Tavener, Song for Athene
  • Organ: James Macmillan, Gaudeamus in loci pace
  • Gabriel Jackson, Orbis patrator optime
  • James Macmillan, Christus vincit

See the News page for a review of this concert.

Sunday July 19 · 7.00 pm

Maria Laach Abbey, D -56653 Maria Laach, Germany

The Choir of New College, Oxford
directed by Edward Higginbottom

Part One

  • William Byrd, Tribue Domine (1575)
  • Thomas Tallis, Sancte Deus
  • Thomas Tallis, In ieunio et fletu (1575)
  • Nicholas Ludford, Ave cuius conceptio

Part Two

  • Julian Anderson, O sing unto the Lord
  • Jonathan Dove, Into thy hands
  • John Tavener, Song for Athene
  • Tarik O'Regan, Surrexit Christus
  • James Macmillan, Christus vincit

Tuesday, September 1

Our Lady's Basilica, Gdansk, Poland

Britten, War Requiem

Anna Samuil soprano, Artur Rucinski tenor, John Daszak bass
Baltic Philharmonic & chorus
Choristers of New College, Oxford
directed by Sir Neville Marriner

Read the related article on the BBC website (opens in new window)

Concerts in France, September 18/19

Friday September 18 · 8.00 pm

Cathédrale Notre-Dame, St Omer, France

Opening Concert, Contrepoints 62, Le Festival des orgues du Pas-de-Calais

Mhairi Lawson soprano, Lucy Ballard contralto
Dan Norman tenor, Giles Underwood bass
Oxford Philomusica, Choir of New College, Oxford
Steven Grahl organ
directed by Edward Higginbottom

  • Barber, Toccata Festiva (organ and orchestra)
  • Barber, Adagio for Strings (orchestra and choir)
  • Elgar, Sonata in G (organ)
  • Elgar, Give unto the Lord (choir, organ and orchestra)
     
  • Haydn, Nelson Mass

Saturday September 19 · 8.00 pm

Cathédrale Notre-Dame, Reims, France

Part One

  • William Byrd, Laudibus in sanctis (Cantiones sacrae, 1591)
  • William Byrd, Ave verum corpus (Gradualia)
  • Thomas Tallis, Sancte Deus
  • Thomas Tallis, In ieunio et fletu (Cantiones sacrae, 1575)
  • Nicholas Ludford, Ave cuius conceptio

Part Two

  • Sergei Rachmaninov, Magnificat (from the All-Night Vespers, op37)
  • Jonathan Dove, Into thy hands
  • Sergei Rachmaninov, Nunc dimittis (from the All-Night Vespers, op37)
  • Charles Villiers Stanford, Beati quorum
  • William Harris, Faire is the heaven
  • Samuel Barber, Agnus Dei

Christmas Tour 2009

Handel, Messiah

soloists: Maria Keohane, William Purefoy, Nicholas Mulroy, Jonathan Sells
The Choir of New College, Oxford
The European Union Baroque Orchestra
directed by Edward Higginbottom

Friday December 11 · 7.30 pm

Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford

Sunday December 13 · 8.00 pm

Trifolion Echternach, Luxembourg

Monday December 14 · 8.00 pm

Stadtkirche, Philharmonie Merck, Darmstadt Germany

Wednesday December 16

Dom, Riga, Latvia

Friday December 18 · 8.30 pm

Patio de la Casa del Cordón, Burgos, Spain

Saturday December 19 · 8.00 pm

Sala Principal del Edificio Baluarte - Palacio de Congresos y Auditorio de Navarra, Pamplona, Spain

Sunday December 20

Auditorio y Centro de Congresos (Riojaforum), Logrono, Spain

CONCERTS IN 2010

Easter Tour of the USA

Sunday April 11 · 4.00 pm

Episcopal Church of St Paul's-by-the-sea, Jacksonville Beach, FL

Steven Grahl organ, The Choir of New College, Oxford
directed by Edward Higginbottom

Programme

  • Nicholas Ludford, Ave cuius conceptio
  • Hubert Parry, My soul, there is a country
  • Johannes Brahms, Geistliches Lied
  • Organ: JS Bach, Passacaglia in c (BWV 582)
  • François Couperin, Precatio ad Deum
  • Henry Purcell, O dive custos
  • Organ: JS Bach, Sonata I/i
  • John Tavener, Song for Athene
  • William Byrd, Vigilate
  • Thomas Tallis, Lamentations I
  • Organ: JS Bach, Sonata I/ii
  • Jonathan Dove, Into thy hands
  • Eric Whitacre, Lux aurumque
  • Organ: JS Bach, Sonata I/iii
  • Franz Schubert, Gott ist mein Hirt
  • WA Mozart, Ave Maria
  • Organ: S Bach, Fugue in c (BWV 582)
  • SS Wesley, The Wilderness

website: www.spbts.net

Tuesday April 13 · 7.00 pm

Visitation Catholic Church, Kansas City, MO

Steven Grahl organ, The Choir of New College, Oxford
directed by Edward Higginbottom

Programme

  • Jonathan Dove, Ecce beatam lucem
  • John Taverner, Mater Christi
  • Organ: John Bull, In nomine VIII
  • ThomasTallis, In ieiunio et fletu
  • James MacMillan, Christus vincit
  • Organ: Edward Elgar, Sonata in G (1st mov)
  • Herbert Howells, Take him earth for cherishing
  • Jonathan Harvey, I love the lord
  • Petr Eben, Salve regina
  • Adolphus Hailstork, Song of Deborah
  • Pierre Villette, Panis angelicus
  • Organ: Louis Vierne, Feux follets
  • William Boyce, O where shall wisdom be found
  • Francis Poulenc, Salve regina
  • Organ: Louis Vierne, Claire de lune
  • Gregorio Allegri, Miserere mei

website: www.visitation.org and www.visitationfineartssociety.com

Wednesday April 14 · 8.00 pm

Cathedral Basilica of Saint Louis, St. Louis, MO

For programme, see Kansas City, Tuesday 13 April

website: www.cathedralstl.org and www.cathedralconcerts.org

Friday April 16 · 7.30 pm

St. John's Episcopal Cathedral, Denver, CO

Steven Grahl organ, The Choir of New College, Oxford
directed by Edward Higginbottom

Programme

  • Nicholas Ludford, Ave cuius conceptio
  • John Taverner, Mater Christi
  • Organ: J.S. Bach, Prelude in G (BWV 541)
  • ThomasTallis, In ieiunio et fletu
  • James MacMillan, Christus vincit
  • Organ: J.S. Bach, Fugue in G (BWV 541)
  • Herbert Howells, Take him earth for cherishing
  • Jonathan Harvey, I love the lord
  • Petr Eben, Salve regina
  • Adolphus Hailstork, Song of Deborah
  • Pierre Villette, Panis angelicus
  • Organ: J.S. Bach, Allein Gott in der Höh sei Ehre (BWV 662)
  • William Boyce, O where shall wisdom be found
  • Francis Poulenc, Salve regina
  • Organ: J.S. Bach, Trio super Allein Gott in der Höh sei Ehre (BWV 664)
  • Gregorio Allegri, Miserere mei

website: www.sjcathedral.org

Sunday April 18

Washington National Cathedral, Washington DC

Concert by choirs of St Thomas New York, Washington Cathedral and
New College, Oxford. Choirs will sing individually and will join together for:

  • Thomas Tallis, Spem in alium
  • John Tavener, Song for Athene
  • Hubert Parry, Blest Pair of Sirens

See Washington Cathedral website for more details:
website: www.nationalcathedral.org and www.cathedralchoralsociety.org

Tuesday April 20

Saint Thomas's Church, Fifth Avenue, New York City · 7.30 pm

For programme, see Jacksonville Beach, Sunday 11 April

website: www.saintthomaschurch.org

Friday April 23 · 8.00 pm

St Paul's Church, Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia, PA

For programme, see Kansas City, Tuesday 13 April

website: www.stpaulschestnuthill.org

Saturday 3 July 2010 · 7.00 pm

St Mary's Church, Adderbury, Oxfordshire

Mozart, Requiem

This concert is in aid of St Mary's Restoration Fund

Tickets: £10 (to include wine and strawberries) from
TasteBuds, High Street, Adderbury Tel: 01295 810241, or on the door

Festival de Saint Riquier, near Amiens, France

Sunday 18 July 2010 · 11.00 am

Saint Riquier Abbatiale

New College Choir will sing at High Mass (Lejeune : Missa ad placitum)

Sunday 18 July 2010 · 4.30 pm

Saint Riquier Abbatiale

Une célébration franco-britannique

Steven Grahl positif organ, The Choir of New College, Oxford
directed by Edward Higginbottom

Programme

  • Processional (arrivée en procession)

Première partie

  • Eustache du Caurroy, Victimae Paschali (a 8)
  • Orlando Gibbons, O clap your hands together (a 8)
  • Eustache du Caurroy, Protector in te sperantium (a 3)
  • Anonymous, Voluntary in d (organ)
  • G.G. Nivers, Offerte en fugue et dialogue (organ)
  • François Couperin, Precatio ad Deum
  • Henry Purcell, O dive custos
  • Henry Purcell, O sing unto the Lord

Deuxième partie

  • Pierre Villette, Panis angelicus
  • John Stanley, Voluntary VIII (op.5) (organ)
  • Francis Poulenc, Quatre petites prières de St François d’Assise
  • Michel Corrette, Plein jeu avec la pedalle de trompette; récit de nazar;
     fuga doppia (Magnificat du 3e et 4e ton)
    (organ)
  • Jonathan Battishill, O Lord, look down from heaven
  • Charles Villiers Stanford, Caelos ascendit
  • Charles Hubert Parry, My soul, there is country
  • Edgar Bainton, And I saw a new heaven

Wednesday 6 October 2010 · 7.30 pm

St John's Smith Square, London
Gala Concert to launch the NOVUM label

  • W.A.Mozart, Requiem
  • Claudio Monteverdi, Hymn – Ave Maris Stella (Vespers 1610)
  • Claudio Monteverdi, Sonata sopra Sancta Maria (Vespers 1610)
  • Claudio Monteverdi, Magnificat (Vespers 1610)

The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, The Choir of New College, Oxford
directed by Edward Higginbottom

Tickets on sale from 3 September: www.sjss.org.uk

Christmas Tour 2010

Gloria in Excelsis: A Christmas Cornucopia

Thursday 16 December

Stadtkirche, Philharmonie Merck, Darmstadt, Germany

Tickets from: www.philharmonie-merck.de

Saturday 18 December

Bolzano, Italy

Sunday 19 December

Merano, Italy

Monday 20 December

Verona, Italy