Programme

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It will be given at the 1st attended concert after presentation of the subscription ticket.
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When you buy this subscription, you will receive 1 ticket for all 5 concerts.

Friday, February 7, 2025, 6:00 p.m., Frýdek-Místek, Knight’s Hall of the Frýdek Castle
Marie Hasoňová – violin
Tommaso Carlini – piano
Programme: Krzysztof Penderecki / Leoš Janáček / Béla Bartók / Franz Liszt / George Enescu

Thursday, April 3, 2025, 6:00 p.m., Frýdek-Místek, Knight’s Hall of the Frýdek Castle
Kateřina Kněžíková – soprano
Kateřina Englichová – harp
Programme: Petr Eben / Bohuslav Martinů / Leoš Janáček / Jan H. Trneček / Antonín Dvořák

Thursday, October 30, 2025, 18:00, Frýdek-Místek, Knight’s Hall of the Frýdek Castle
For Several Friends
Helena Zemanová, Jana Anýžová – violin
Hana Fleková – cello
Jan Krejča – theorba
Pablo Kornfeld – harpsichord, organ positive
Programme: “The Art of Diversity”, trio sonatas by Johann Georg Orsler

Thursday, November 20, 2025, 18:00, Frýdek-Místek, Knight’s Hall of the Frýdek Castle
Markéta Cukrová – mezzo-soprano
Miroslav Sekera – piano
Programme: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Joseph Haydn

Thursday, December 11, 2025, 18:00, Frýdek-Místek, Knight’s Hall of the Frýdek Castle
The Zemlinsky Quartet
Irvin Venyš – clarinet
Igor Františák – clarinet, basset horn
Programme: Leoš Janáček, Bohuslav Martinů, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Joseph Haydn, Felix Mendelssohn

Programme: III. castle concert

Johann Georg Orsler (1698–1770): Trio Sonatas
Sonata in F major “Il pastor fido”
Partita in C major
Sonata in E flat major
Partita in D major
Trio in C major

Silesian native Johann Georg Orsler (ca. 1698–1777) passed through a remarkable number of places that figure in the history of the music of the Czech lands in the 18th century (from Wroclaw and Vienna through Prague, Dresden, Olomouc, Brno, Holešov, Nova Bystřica, Brtnice and Valtice back to Vienna ). As a thirty-year-old, he entered the contemporary dictionary literature, but already at the end of the century, music lexicographers were not sure how to spell his name correctly and to which of his several bearers to attribute the compositions marked by him. After that he was completely forgotten and his sparsely preserved compositions received attention only in the very recent past. His compositions are significant not only as rare examples of the repertoire composed for aristocratic music lovers settled in the Czech lands, but also as exceptionally high-quality music, as is to be expected from a former pupil of members of the imperial band led by Johann Joseph Fux. Orsler’s remarkably diverse and at the same time distinctive trio sonatas present music that appeals not only to musicians and listeners, but also to music historians.