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Advent Concerts

This year, we will see the first concert of the popular series a week before the first Sunday of Advent. The last one falls on Christmas Eve and it is better to enjoy the carols in a family circle. Christmas-themed programmes performed by the chamber ensembles of the Czech Philharmonic members and their guests will be presented in the Suk Hall.

AK1 — Advent Concert I • In modo camerale

Suk Hall

What's on

Paul Peuerl
Three Baroque Dances for oboe, clarinet, bassoon, and piano

Carl Stamitz
Quartet in E flat major, Op. 8, No. 2

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Divertimento No. 12 in E flat major, K 252

Jitka Koželuhová
Three Movements about the Christmas Story for oboe, clarinet, bassoon, and piano

Ludwig van Beethoven
Quintet in E flat major, Op. 16  for piano and winds

Christmas carols

 

Performers

In modo camerale 
Jana Brožková oboe
Ludmila Peterková clarinet
Jaroslav Kubita bassoon
Daniel Wiesner piano 
Kateřina Javůrková French horn 

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Photo illustrating a concert - event Advent Concert I In modo camerale

AK2 — Advent Concert II • Rudolphin Ensemble Prague

Suk Hall

What's on

Johann Sebastian Bach
Prelude in E major, BWV 937 
Cantata “Herz und Mun und Tat und Leben”, BWV 147, selections

Pavel Josef Vejvanovský
Sonata Sancti Spiritus

Adam Václav Michna z Otradovic 
Christmas Music, selections

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Ave verum corpus, K 618

Antonín Dvořák
Violin Sonatina in G major, Op. 100

Ronald Binge
Elizabethan Serenade

William Chatterton Dix
What Child Is This

George Gershwin
The Man I Love 
’S Wonderful

Vincent Youmans
Tea for Two

Glenn Miller
Moonlight Serenade

Irving Berlin
White Christmas

Performers

Rudolphin Ensemble Prague 
Marcel Kozánek violin 
Libor Vilímec violin 
Pavel Hořejší viola
Tomáš Hostička cello 
Jiří Vopálka contrabass

Tatiana Čudová vocals

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Photo illustrating a concert - event Advent Concert II Rudolphin Ensemble Prague

AK3 — Advent Concert III • Czech Philharmonic Sextet

Suk Hall

What's on

Antonín Dvořák 
String Sextet in A major, Op. 48
Slavonic Dances (selections)
Humoresque in G flat major, Op. 101, No. 7

Advent Songs and Christmas Carols

Performers

Czech Philharmonic Sextet 
Jan Fišer violin
Libor Vilímec violin
Jaroslav Pondělíček viola
Jan Šimon viola
František Host cello
Josef Špaček cello 

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Photo illustrating a concert - event Advent Concert III Czech Philharmonic Sextet

AK4 — Advent Concert IV • Philharmonic Brass

Suk Hall

What's on

William Byrd
The Earl of Oxford’s March

Anthony Holborne
Suite “The Fairie Round”

Tielman Susato 
Susato Suite

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Ave verum corpus, K 618

Giacomo Meyerbeer
Marche du couronnement, from the opera Le prophete

Giuseppe Verdi
Nabucco, overture to the opera

Carl Orff
Five Pieces for Brass

Antonín Pecha
Christmas Carols

Performers

Philharmonic Brass 
Stanislav Masaryk trumpet
Walter Hofbauer trumpet
Jaroslav Halíř trumpets
Marek Vajo trumpet
Jiří Šedivý trumpet
Lukáš Moťka trombone
Jan Perný trombone
Lukáš Besuch trombone
Karel Kučera trombone
Mikuláš Koska French horn
Karel Malimánek tuba

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Photo illustrating a concert - event Advent Concert IV Philharmonic Brass

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