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Ten years of StreamBoyz: an evening on Rádio Devín

In the summer of 2018, for our tenth anniversary, we talked on Rádio Devín about how a concert gets onto the internet: scores full of coloured slips, cameras placed by the heritage authorities, and one microphone that is really four.

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The archive began with a dance: the Saltarello of 22 February 2008

The first concert we ever recorded had an all-Italian programme and ended with Mendelssohn’s Saltarello – a dance named after jumping. It was our leap into the unknown, too.

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Martinů’s Les Rondes

Six round dances for seven musicians, Moravian temperament, jazz and one melody you may know from childhood. Watch the finale of Martinů’s Les Rondes performed by Quasars Ensemble at the 60th Bratislava Music Festival.

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Last weeks: the Quasars Ensemble concert from the 60th BHS is in the archive only until 24 November

Berio, Boulez, Lutosławski, Burlas and Martinů performed by Quasars Ensemble and conductor Ivan Buffa. You can watch the recording of this concert from last year’s Bratislava Music Festival only until 24 November 2026.

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Slovak music in one place: a new page on Slovak composers

How much Slovak music is there in the Slovak Philharmonic’s archive? We have gathered the answer on a single page: 127 composers from the Baroque to the present, nearly five hundred works, 91 premieres and more than five hundred pieces you can play straight from their beginning.

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Spyres and a storm at sea

A tenore assoluto, Hasse’s simile aria and the ensemble Il Pomo d’Oro. Watch a clip from the Tenorissimo concert at the 61st Bratislava Music Festival.

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What was written about the BHS: media coverage and sources in one place

Reviews, interviews, previews and radio programmes: during the Bratislava Music Festival we collect everything published about it and record it so that it can be cited.

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In Memory of Anton Viskup (1953–2026)

Double bass player, composer, archivist, librarian and long-serving chief dramaturge of the Slovak Philharmonic. And for the Concert Archive of the Slovak Philharmonic, above all, the author of the catalogue of all the Philharmonic’s concerts from the very first in 1947 to the latest season – in our archive we call it the “Anton Viskup Catalogue”.

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Struck out in red: how we find out what was really played

The programme said one thing, the stage did another. An archive that wants to be an encyclopaedia has to know not only what was played – but also who says so. A look at what our certainty is built on.

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How We Got Started: Two Cameras, One Microphone, and Our First Stream in 2008

Today, you have hundreds of concerts at your fingertips in the archive. But it all began with an unusual collaboration–in 2008, around two cameras and the first live recording and broadcast, the forces of official state culture (with the support of the Slovak Ministry of Culture) joined with those of Bratislava’s alternative, experimental scene. Take a look at where it all began–and who makes up the team today.

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The same concert can sound different. For selected recordings you can switch the audio track in the player – for example a Hi‑Fi version for headphones. Try it on Mahler's Ninth.

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Hundreds of recorded concerts by the Slovak Philharmonic are available to you for free–and it's not just "YouTube with concerts." We designed it as a study tool with commentary. It even includes reviews.

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It's not just a collection of recordings. In the archive, you'll find entire periods of music history–performed by professionals, with scholarly texts and biographies. It's exactly what you need for your studies.

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An orchestra is more than violins and trumpets. The archive hides rare guests too – the contrabassoon, the oboe d'amore, the mandolin. A few tips on what to look for.

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