Concerts in the garden of the Albrecht House

The sixth edition of the Hortus artis festival offers visitors and residents of Bratislava eight chamber music concerts in the garden of the Albrechtovci House, Kapitulská 1, during the summer months of this year.

The aim of the 2025 edition is to present various chamber ensembles with music from different historical periods, united by the phenomenon of French music, French sound, and its reflection in other cultures, including Slovak music.

The inspiration for the festival’s “theme” is the 150th anniversary of the birth of Maurice Ravel in 2025, who, together with Claude Debussy, had an indelible influence on the form of European music at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. However, French sound is a much broader phenomenon, which is why the festival program also turns to older French Baroque music (Rameau, Campra, Leclair, Rebel, etc.).

The main project activities are live concerts and informal post-concert discussions with the performers. Emphasis is placed on the professionalism of the performances, the diversity of the cast, the presentation of rarely performed Slovak titles and authors and works historically linked to Slovakia.

The festival will feature nearly a hundred works performed by more than 60 performers from Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Ukraine, Poland, Greece, Switzerland, Italy, Sweden, and Denmark.

Concerts:

Programme 29.6. 2025

Musica aeterna (SK)

Artistic Director Peter Zajíček, violin

Jean Marie Leclair: Scyla et Glaucus, orchestral suite
Jean-Féry Rebel: Les Caracteres de la Dance
Jacques Aubert: Concert de simphonies, Cinquieme suite F dur
Jean-Féry Rebel: Les plaisirs champetre

Program July 20, 2025

Davide Tomasi – guitar / Marco Musso – guitar (IT)

Maurice Ravel: Sonatine
Maurice Ravel: Ma Mere l’Oye
Maria Castelnuovo Tedesco: Preludes and Fugues
Isaac Albèniz.: Almería
Premiere of a composition by a contemporary Slovak composer

Program August 31, 2025

Bratislava Guitar Quartet (SK, GR)

Miloš Slobodník, Yorgos Nousis, Radka Krajčová, Martin Krajčo – guitars

Francis Poulenc: Sarabande (to Ida Presti) (solo guitar)
Francis Poulenc: 3 Improvisations (guitar duo) (arr. M. Krajčo)
Paul Hindemith: Rondo (guitar trio)
Maurice Ravel: Pavane pour une infante défunte (arr. M. Krajčo)
Francis Poulenc: Sonata a 4 (guitar quartet) (arr. M. Krajčo)
Manuel de Falla: Homenaje a Debussy (solo guitar)
Claude Debussy: Children´s corner (guitar duo) (arr. M. Krajčo)
Doctor Gradus ad Parnassum – Jimbo´s Lullaby
Serenade for the Doll – The snow is dancing – The Little
Shepherd – Golliwogg´s cake walk
Igor Stravinsky: Suite No. 1 and Suite No. 2 for chamber orchestra 12´ (arr. Martin Krajčo)

Program 21. 9. 2025

L´EUROPE GALANTE

André Campra was the most important opera composer between Lully and Rameau. The success of L´Europe galante in 1697 was a tribute to this founding work of the Opéra-Ballet genre, which combined dance and opera in opulent divertissements. After the prologue of the work, in which Venus insists that love can be found everywhere, Campra takes the audience on a journey to the amorous lands of Europe. The first entrée (France) is a pastoral picture of the fleeting amorous fidelity of shepherds. The second entrée is a pair of quixotic Spaniards who sing their nightly serenades under the balconies of their lovers. The third entrée is a Venetian masked ball and finally the last entrée takes place in a Turkish seraglio; the slave girl Zäide and Roxana compete for the attention of Sultan Zuliman…

Performers:

Concerto Copenhagen (DK): Peter Spišský artistic director, violin, Ida Lorenzen violin, Judith-Maria Blomsterberg cello, Marcus Mohlin harpsichord, MGK Copenhagen Talent School, Joseph Abiani, tenor

André Campra (1660 – 1744): L’Europe Galante

Johann Heinrich Roman (1694 – 1758): Golovin Suite

Georg Friedrich Händel (1685 – 1756): Va dal furor portata, aria from the opera Ezio

Georg Philipp Telemann (1681 – 1767): Les nations anciennes et modernes

Antonio Caldara (1670 – 1736): Lo so, con periglio, aria from the opera Joaz

Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683 – 1764): Suite from Dardanus

Tickets ticketportal 8 – 13 €

Organizer: ALBRECHT FORUM, o.z.

Location: Albrecht House, Kapitulská, Bratislava, Slovakia

Concert dates:

July 6, 2025
July 13, 2025
July 20, 2025
July 27, 2025
August 24, 2025
August 31, 2025
September 21, 2025

Start: from 18:00
Price:
Basic admission – 13.00 €
Children under 6 years old – 1.00 €
Students, pensioners – 8.00 €
Disabled – 5.00 €

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