The Bach Journey Traveller Reviews

A most enjoyable and wonderfully organised tour holiday. I can’t see how it could be improved. Wonderful attention to detail.

Perfect. Really helpful and supportive - and friendly. Went the extra mile to help.

Hearing great music in the towns, churches and other venues where Bach worked and lives was incredibility special. We could never have created this experience on our own.

Great array of very well curated events. Outstanding organization, efficiency and low key style.

'The Johann Sebastian Bach Journey', organised by Martin Randall Travel Ltd, was fantastic in every way! An excellent expert lecturer, an interesting itinerary linked to the events in Bach's life, superb music played by top-class international musicians in special venues to us as their private audience - all unforgettable and outstanding! We stayed in very good hotels and the meals that were included in the tour were very good. The Martin Randall team were excellent, with thoughtful attention to detail.

Martin Randall Travel looked after every single detail in an efficient, friendly and calm manner. The Festival Manager was exceptional and her whole team deserves praise.

An A+ experience from the very beginning until farewells at the airport at the end.

Martin Randall is a first-class operation in every way imaginable.

This was essentially the same holiday as I did with Martin Randall in 2013, with lectures from the same speaker and staying two nights each at Muhlhausen, Weimar and Leipzig, all places where JS Bach lived and worked. We also visited his birthplace Eisenach and other towns associated with him, Ohrdruf, Arnstadt and Sangerhausen, just as before. But much of the music, many of the musicians and some of the venues were different. So it was well worth repeating the wonderful experience of sharing this great music with an attentive audience of like minded people. Top rate musicians, fascinating insights from the latest Bach scholarship making the whole experience, in turn, sublime, emotional, thrilling, amusing and uplifting, while also historically informed. We were brought close to Bach the man, his family and surroundings, could sympathise with his frustrations and marvel at his genius.

The logistics of marshalling over 170 audience members and many musicians between various hotels, restaurants and venues is no mean feat, but accomplished by the Martin Randall team with good humour and efficiency. Some talks and recitals in small venues had to be repeated or even held 3 times in order to accommodate us all. For the main concerts of the festival we were all together. All instructions, down to the last detail, including programme notes for the concerts and menus for the meals are in the booklet which we were all given for the journey. A certain amount of free time is built in to do our own thing and the guides were relaxed about anybody missing the planned activities if they so chose. If you don't want to miss anything, you have to read the book closely and meet on time, or make your own way.

Brilliant tour of Bach localities in east Germany with wonderful lectures and concerts

Really well organised

We heard many of the works of JS Bach played in the towns and places associated with him in Thuringia by the best musicians performing anywhere in the world today. Altogether a unique experience.

Martin Randall Festivals

A series of sublime concerts following in the footsteps of Bach

Martin Randle tours are very good value for money given the excellence in administration and quality of music artists.

An experience of the music of Bach and some of his contemporaries in the places where Bach lived and worked. Inspired concerts by world recognised specialists in authentic concert environments. The experience definitely felt that you touched the Divine as was the intent of Bach’s music. An experience that was savoured to every last minute.

Well organised with logistics managed seamlessly so that we could concentrate on the experience. Very highly recommended.

It was basically a pilgrimage, following in the footsteps of this great composer, from his birthplace in Eisenach, through his travels around Thuringia, finally finishing in Leipzig where he spent around 25 years until his death, as Kantor at the wonderful St Thomas' church.

I have undertaken many Martin Randall tours and without exception they have all been excellent, from their office staff through to the tour itself, which is meticulously planned to the last detail. The participants are friendly and everything comes together to make it all a totally memorable experience.