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 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.
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.
‘It is for such rare opportunities as these to hear music in such suitable surroundings that make these music festivals unique and so attractive.’ (Independent, 18 April 2004)
The following festivals are confirmed for 2008 & 2009:
A Festival of Music in Venice
24–30 November 2008
Music at the Castle
Vienna Piano Trio 9–11 January 2009
Haydn at the Castle
3–13 April 2009
The Rhine Valley Music Festival
24–31 May 2009
The Seine Music Festival
14–21 June 2009
The Danube Music Festival
28 August – 4 September 2009
The Vienna Music Festival
29 August – 3 September 2009
Please note that if you are interested in a festival that has already taken place, do contact us to find out if and when it may be running again; and remember that our parent company, Martin Randall Travel, offers many more tours to music events throughout Europe.