St Endellion Festival
St Endellion Church, nr Port Isaac, 1-11 August
Web: endellionfestivals.org.uk
Tenor Mark Padmore might have handed over the artistic directorship to Roderick Williams and Joely Koos, but opera remains St Endellion’s lodestar – this summer, it’s Verdi’s La Traviata, conducted by Adam Hickox. And in a festival spanning Elgar’s The Kingdom to Britten’s Lachrymae, Padmore joins a lustrous line-up including mezzo Sarah Connolly.
Solem Quartet
Ceredigion Museum, Aberystwyth, 1 August
Rounding off a two-year project partnering late Beethoven and Bartók with brand new works, the Solem Quartet turn to Bartók’s Quartet No.2 and Beethoven’s Op.132, whose sublime ‘Heiliger Dankgesang’ slow movement supplies the starting point for, a specially commissioned string quartet by Edmund Finnis.