The Dubhlinn Gardens

In the middle of July, the Chateau of Troja will likely soak up so much sun that it will long for shady gardens, green gardens, Irish gardens... The group A nocte temporis will draw us into their midst with a soothing programme of old Irish songs, ballads and dances that will evoke the entertainments of Dublin’s aristocratic courts and castles.

This remarkable repertoire will be brought to us by an ensemble whose hallmark is a true passion for traditional Irish music: the outstanding tenor Reinoud Van Mechelen, the flautist Anna Besson, who succumbed to the Irish flute long before she first picked up baroque flute, or the renowned harpist Sarah Louise Ridy, who plays the beautiful Celtic harp.

The very titles of the songs evoke their delightful qualities – An Buachaillin Bàn or Eileanoir a Rùn (Eleanor, my secret love)… According to Irish newspapers of the period George Frideric Handel had declared enviously that he would rather have written the folk ballad Ailen Aroon than everything else he had composed up to that point...