Castle harmonies 2025 –14th concert season/1st concert

TARTINI STRING QUARTET

Miran Kolbl, violin

Romeo Drucker, violin

Aleksandar Milošev, viola

Miloš Mlejnik, cello

The Tartini String Quartet began its career as the String Quartet of the Slovenian Philharmonic Orchestra in 1983, when the four leaders of the string groups of the Slovenian Philharmonic Orchestra decided to put their rich technical knowledge and musical experience to the test in the string quartet, which is considered to be the most noble and at the same time the most sensitive ensemble. From the first beginnings with only a few occasional performances to the present day, they have performed hundreds of concerts, seen countless concert halls, and become an ambassador of Slovenian musical culture on both domestic and international concert stages, collaborating with outstanding national and international artists.

The musicians proudly note: “To our great joy, despite the passage of time, the original desire, freshness and joy of chamber music-making has not left us, now enriched by years of experience and always new musical ideas.” For the opening evening of the Castle Harmonies, they have thus prepared a programme that ties their more than 40 years of music-making together like a golden thread, and will go back to the music of the famous Baroque master from Piran, after whom the quartet is named, to the indispensable Joseph Haydn and Bedřich Smetana, whose autobiographical violin quartet will symbolically round off the evening.

Indicative programme:

Tartini: Sonata à Quattro in D major, C. 551/78

Haydn: String Quartet in D minor, Op. 76, No. 2, “Quint”

B. Smetana: String Quartet in E minor, “From My Life”