Our first venture in this field was the Austro-Hungarian Music Festival in 1994, which has become an annual event. This was joined three years later by the biennial Rhine Valley Music Festival. For both of these, the audience lives for the week on a river cruiser.
Land-based international music festivals began with Venice in 1999, and Prague, Rome, Castile, Vienna, St Petersburg, Thuringia and Saxony (The Bach Journey), Seville, Naples and Mozart in the (Italian) Marches have followed.
These all-inclusive international music festivals comprise some of the most musically rewarding and intellectually stimulating classical music holidays available.
In 2003 Martin Randall Music Management took over the running of Music at the Castle – the thirty-year-old chamber music festival at the Castle Hotel in Taunton, Somerset, an ideal location for a less strenuous, shorter classical music holiday in the UK, with performances by some of the world’s leading musicians.
The following festivals are taking place in 2010 and 2011:
The J S Bach Journey 20–26 June 2010
The Danube Music Festival 20–27 August 2010
Chamber Music Weekends 2011
• The Schubert Ensemble (28–30 January 2011)
• The Dante Quartet (18–20 February 2011)
• The Wihan Quartet (18–20 March 2011)
• The London Haydn Quartet (1–3 April 2011)
• Emma Johnson & Friends (29 April – 1 May 2011)
A Festival of Music in Venice 13–18 March 2011
Castile: a Festival of Spanish Music 11–15 June 2011
(details published September 2010)
The Seine Music Festival 3–10 July 2011
(details published September 2010)
The Danube Music Festival 26 August – 2 September 2011
(details published November 2010)
A Festival of Music in Florence 23–29 October 2011
(details published November 2010)
The full programmes for the 2011 festival are not yet confirmed but please do contact us to register to receive advance details as soon as they are available. Details will be placed online when ready.