Newly launched: Sailing the Aegean, 4–13 October 2025

Martin Randall Festivals

There surely can be few greater musical pleasures than listening to music in the places most closely associated with the composer or the first performance. Linking the music to the places so central to the composers’ lives, and providing the historical context, is at the heart of all our planning, as is ensuring that the music itself is performed by artists of the highest international standing.

The audiences on our classical music festivals are formed of participants who take a package which includes access to all the private concerts, accommodation, flights from the UK and transfers, meals with wine, talks by a musicologist, tips and much else besides.

Celebrating music and place

Our festivals in 2025 so far are Music along the Rhine (8–15 May) The Cotswolds Choral Festival, (16–20 June), and Music along the Seine (16–23 July). In due course, we will also release details for Handel in Valletta (November – precise dates TBC) – please contact us to register your interest.

The footage here is from Opera in Sicily in 2019.

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Featured Martin Randall Festivals

Music Along the Rhine
Music Along the Rhine - Outstanding music, beautiful countryside and historic towns along Germany’s principal river
8th May 2025
Dr Katy Hamilton

Eight private concerts in beautiful and appropriate historic buildings. Musicians of the highest calibre: a constellation of soloists such as Isabelle Faust, Kristian Bezuidenhout and... Read more

£3,640 ex flights

Cotswolds Choral Festival
Cotswolds Choral Festival - A celebration of the finest vocal music in England’s prettiest region
16th June 2025
Professor Stephen Darlington MBE

Eight private performances, mostly choral, in towns and villages in the Cotswolds, England’s prettiest region. Tremendous variety of sound world – from Palestrina to Pärt, with a... Read more

£3,290

Music Along the Seine
Music Along the Seine - Superb music in elegant châteaux and churches along France’s greatest river
16th July 2025
Professor Katharine Ellis

Eight private concerts in beautiful historic buildings along the Seine Valley. Repertoire ranges from medieval to modern, weighted towards the greatest eras of French music, including... Read more

£3,680

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" Top marks to the lecturer who offered brilliant insights into the vary varied works to be performed, and new ways of focussing on the works, all delivered with brilliant understated wit. " The Lucerne Festival - Music in Switzerland’s loveliest city
" A wonderful musical experience! " The Lucerne Festival - Music in Switzerland’s loveliest city
" 'Verona Festival was on the bucket list - and the chance to be educated about Verona as well as attend the opera was too good a chance to miss.; " Verona Opera - lyric spectacle in the Veneto
" The music was spectacular – an amazing experience. " Verona Opera - lyric spectacle in the Veneto
" We had a good mixture of culture, concerts, excellent food, sightseeing and trips, with each day in itself a balance of all these. " The Lucerne Festival - Music in Switzerland’s loveliest city
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