Summer with Haydneum is also filled with rich experiences: in Eszterháza – at the Esterházy Palace in Fertőd – visitors can enjoy eighteen concerts over six weekends, from mid-July until the end of August. Each weekend is built around a performer or a musical theme, offering songs, chamber music (from piano four-hands to string quartets), symphonies, concertos, and masses. Naturally, in keeping with the spirit of the venue, Haydn’s music will feature in every performance, but audiences will also encounter both well-known and lesser-known composers, from Mozart through Boccherini to Werner, from Schubert through Brahms to Goldmark, with rarely or barely performed works even by the more popular composers.

The performers are leading figures of Hungarian early music performance, many of whom are returning artists: appearing will be the Authentic Quartet, József Balog, Andrea Bertalan, Márton Borsányi, Capella Savaria, Márton Egri, Ensemble Variabile, Zsolt Kalló, László Móré, the Orfeo Orchestra, the duo Rita Papp and László Gerhát, the Purcell Choir, Petra Somlai, Katalin Szutrély, and György Vashegyi. As a star guest, the Salomon String Quartet will once again enchant the audience.

The concerts, beginning at 7 p.m. on Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays, will feature as one of their central “protagonists” the venue itself: the Apollo Hall of the Esterházy Palace, where authentic sound is guaranteed, and where, thanks to period instruments, performance forces, and historically informed technical solutions, everything can be heard just as it would have sounded two and a half centuries ago.