Advent Concerts
The Advent Concerts of the Czech Chamber Music Society offer audiences the perfect opportunity to start feeling festive. Across four programmes—featuring, as always, members of the Czech Philharmonic—you’ll hear much more than familiar carols, though those, too, are part of the Rudolfinum’s Advent tradition.
This year’s Sunday concerts include arrangements of iconic works for eight cellos and double bass by the ensemble Virtuosi di Basso, a tribute to Vivaldi with vocalist Markéta Cukrová, and a light-hearted Mozart programme performed by the Czech Philharmonic’s Philharmonic’s principal string players. A few days before Christmas Eve, members of the Philharmonic’s trombone and tuba section will offer a joyful and original holiday greeting of their own.
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What's On
Adam Václav Michna z Otradovic*
The Czech Lute, selections
John Newton*
Amazing Grace
Leonard Bernstein*
West Side Story, selections
Gioacchino Rossini*
William Tell, overture
Vilém Blodek*
Intermezzo from the opera In the Well
Antonín Dvořák*
Symphony No. 8 in G major, Op. 88, movements II and IV
* arr. by Tomáš Ille
Performers
Virtuosi di Basso
What's On
Antonio Vivaldi
Sinfonia in B minor, RV 169 “Al sancto sepolcro” (5')
Nisi dominus (Cum dederit), RV 607 (5')
Chamber Concerto in D major, RV 96 (10')
Longe mala umbrae, terrores, RV 629 (13')
Chamber Concerto in F major, RV 100 “La Serenissima” (10')
Qui sedes ad dexteram patris, aria from the Gloria D major, RV 589 (3')
Performers
Markéta Cukrová mezzo-soprano
Helena Jiříkovská, Viktor Mazáček violin
Jiří Poslední viola
Jakub Dvořák cello
Lucie Brotbek Prochásková flutes
Ondřej Šindelář bassoon
Filip Dvořák harpsichord
What's On
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Divertimento in E flat major for string trio, K 563 (45')
Christmas carols (10')
Performers
Jan Fišer violin
Eva Krestová viola
Václav Petr cello
What's On
Jacob Handl-Gallus*
Canite tuba in Sion, advent antiphon (2')
Claudio Monteverdi*
Adoramus te, Christe (3')
Advent and Christmas in the Krkonoše Foothills folk songs* (7')
Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber*
Serenada à cinque, A 877a “Der Nachtwächter” (8')
Ivan Zelenka
Pseudo-Baroque Suite (world premiere) (10')
Giulio Caccini*
Ave Maria (3')
Georges Bizet*
Agnus Dei (3')
Josef Vejvoda
Looking Back (4')
That Time at Christmas melodies of the Karel Vlach Orchestra* (7')
* arr. by Břetislav Kotrba
Performers
Czech Philharmonic Low Brass Ensemble
Robert Kozánek trombone
Lukáš Moťka trombone
Jan Perný trombone
Lukáš Besuch trombone
Karel Kučera bass trombone
Karel Malimánek tuba