Three Choirs Festival Hereford 2025
Four Cathedral Choral Concerts
From the Abbey Hotel, Great Malvern
31 July – 3 August 2025 (3 nights)
As ever the Three Choirs Festival remains the highpoint of any choral festival year and this year it is the turn of Hereford Cathedral. The tour includes cathedral concerts on two evenings and an additional two daytime concerts on the Friday and Saturday. Staying at the four star Abbey Hotel, Great Malvern which is an easy drive (21 miles/45 minutes) to Hereford. Early dining on both concert evenings will be at the Green Dragon Hotel Hereford adjacent to the cathedral. The hotel and restaurant are under new ownership and provide good dining recently and a very comfortable lounge area to perhaps enjoy lunch or tea during the day whilst in Hereford. An outline of the performances, programme and itinerary are as follows:
Thursday 31 July: Check into the Abbey Hotel Great Malvern from 3 pm before meeting guests for dinner in the evening. There will be a tour of Malvern Priory – which is adjacent to the hotel at 4 pm.
Friday 1 August: On your way to Hereford where will be a morning visit to Hampton Court Castle gardens. A 15th-century castle (not open) north of Hereford with spectacular gardens and a famous maze, numerous herbaceous borders, pleached avenues, kitchen gardens, island pavilions and canals. Early light lunches/elevenses can be purchased in their Orangery Café before continuing to Hereford. As orchards are a way of life in Herefordshire a quick visit to the Museum of Cider in Hereford before arriving at the cathedral in good time for the afternoon concert given by the National Youth Orchestra of Wales. The programme includes works by Corigliano, Mason Bates, Gershwin, Bernstein and Wang Jie. A two course dinner with glass of wine will be served in the Green Dragon hotel before the evening cathedral concert at 7.30 pm returning then to Malvern around 10.45 pm. The final programme to be confirm but will include Dobrinka Tabakova Centuries of Meditations and Faure Requiem.
Saturday 2 August: Leisurely departure for Hereford to enjoy a morning concert in the cathedral given by the National Youth Choir of Great Britain. The afternoon is free you might consider visiting the Black and White Museum or we will try to include a visit to the Cathedral’s Chained Library and Mappa Mundi exhibition (tbc). It may be possible to attend afternoon rehearsals in the cathedral and if timing permits Choral Evensong. Dinner again in the Green Dragon Hotel before the final concert of for the 2025 Festival in the cathedral. Mendelssohn Elijah with Festival chorus, Philharmonia Orchestra and conductor Geraint Bowen. Return to the hotel around 10.45 pm after the concert.
Sunday 3 August: Please check out of your rooms by 11 am for departure.
Tour price per person: £790
Single supplement: £40 per night (£120)
(Double rooms for sole occupancy)
Single rooms with smaller supplement possible
Non-refundable deposit: £200 pp
Nearest station Great Malvern, parking at the hotel.
Tour price includes:
- 3 nights’ accommodation and breakfast,
- One dinner Abbey Hotel and two at Green Dragon Hereford.
- Top price tickets for four Festival concerts
- Entries/tours where stated
- Heritage Touring representative and executive coaching
Abbey Rd, Great Malvern,
Malvern WR14 3ET
Hotel website: https://www.sarova-abbeyhotel.com/
Telephone: 01684 892 332
Each tour, unless stated otherwise in the tour details, includes welcome reception, hotel accommodation, dinner and breakfast, entry fees, guided tours and tickets where appropriate, lunches and refreshments where stated, professional guide and executive coaching.
You are asked to make your own travel arrangements to join each break at the hotel listed. We are happy to give advice and where possible organise shared taxis from a rail station to the hotel and where appropriate the coach will finish a tour at the station. However we cannot take responsibility for individual travel bookings.
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