Dear Friends of the National Gallery of Slovenia and the Slovene
Philharmonic String Chamber Orchestra,
We cordially invite you to the Grand Hall of the National Gallery of
Slovenia, the place of the eighteenth season of the Harmony of the Spheres
series. 2018 is the jubilee year for both institutions, since the National
Gallery of Slovenia celebrates its centenary and the Slovene Philharmonic
String Chamber Orchestra its twenty-fifth anniversary. This was also the reason
that we entitled the new season Harmony of the Spheres – Pictures at
an Exhibition.
We have envisioned three seasons in which you will listen to the scores
inspired by the world of the fine arts. In addition to the classical
compositions there will be new ones, commissioned for our purpose and related
to the works of art mounted in the National Gallery of Slovenia. Some of them
do not even exist yet. Students of the Academy of Music, Ljubljana, will
produce miniatures inspired by works from our national collection.
In the introductory concert the festive piece of Leon Firšt will sound
the anniversary tune. The violinist Črtomir Šiškovič will introduce Giuseppe
Tartini and his followers; a new piece for viola and strings by Pavel Mihelčič
and Benjamin Britten's Lacrimae will
be performed by violist Maja Rome, while the violin concerto of Hugo Wolf in
transcription by Franc Avsenek for string orchestra will be interpreted by
Russian-Slovenian violinist Nadezda Tokareva. Besides this selection you will
hear Modest Mussorgsky's Pictures
at an Exhibition in transcription
for string orchestra, Chamber
Symphony 110a by Dmitri
Shostakovich, The Last Seven Words
of Our Savior on the Cross by
Joseph Haydn, and The Death and
the Maiden by Franz Schubert,
transcribed for string orchestra by Gustav Mahler.
Our lectures will match music as tightly as possible: director of the
National Gallery, Dr Barbara Jaki, will talk about unconventional ways
paintings lend us information, Dr Mojca Marjana Kovač will animate monuments
and mementos of Tartini, Assist Prof Dr Robert Peskar will present Three
Parishes at Rosalnice that inspired Pavel Mihelčič, Nataša Ciber will discuss
Oratory la Santa Queva of Cadiz, which was erected by Jose Saenz de Santamaria
who commissioned also Joseph Haydn to compose The Last Seven Words
of Our Savior on
the Cross, and Dr Andrej Smrekar will
demonstrate the visual inspiration of the subject of The Death and the Maiden.
Klemen Hvala, Art Director of SFSCO
Dr Barbara Jaki, Director of NG
Subscription price for the 2018–2019 season: 75 €
Single ticket: 19 €
Subscription price for Friends of the National Gallery of Slovenia: 50 €
Single ticket: 15 €
Subscription or single tickets available at the front desk of the National Gallery of Slovenia, Prešernova 24, Ljubljana, 10 am–6pm, Thursdays through 8pm, or one hour before the event; closed Mondays.
Dates of events:
- 2 October 2018
- 20 November 2018
- 8 December 2018
- 29 January 2019
- 26 March 2019
- 21 May 2019
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Welcome!
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Program booklet (PDF)
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2 October 2018 – 21 May 2019
Narodna galerija
Cankarjeva 20
1000 Ljubljana