Advent Sundays have traditionally been an opportunity to attend afternoon concerts at the Suk Hall. These programmes, with their Christmas theme and more popular mood, are presented by chamber ensembles of players from the Czech Philharmonic. You can further enhance your impression of the concert by enjoying the atmosphere of the Café Rudolfinum.
Suk Hall
František Vincenc Kramář-Krommer
Partita á 8 in E Flat Major (“La Chasse”)
Leopold Koželuh
Pastorela for wind instruments
Jan Václav Havel
Allegro ut pastorela in B Flat for tuba pastoralis, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 French horns, 2 bassoons
Joseph Triebensee
Variations on a theme from Vojtěch Jírovec’s opera Der Augenarzt (The Oculist)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Serenade in E Flat Major, K 375
Ivan Sequardt
oboe, artistic director
Liběna Sequardtová
oboe
Petr Sinkule, Zdeněk Tesař
clarinet
Jaroslav Kubita, Luboš Hucek
bassoon
Jiří Havlík, Hana Sapáková
french horn
Karel Malimánek
tuba pastoralis
Suk Hall
Giacomo Puccini
Crisantemi
Bohuslav Martinů
Serenade No. 2 for two violins and viola, H 216, 2nd movement
Antonio Vivaldi
The Four Seasons, four concertos for violin and string orchestra, Op. 8, No. 2 (“Winter”)
Antonín Dvořák
Serenade for Strings in E Major, Op. 22, 1st movement
Johann Sebastian Bach
Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D Major, BWV 1068, 2nd movement (“Air”)
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Serenade for Strings in C Major, Op. 48, 2nd movement
Johann Pachelbel
Canon in D Major, P 37
Arcangelo Corelli
Concerto grosso in G Minor, Op. 6, No. 8 (“Fatto per la notte di Natale”)
Czech Philharmonic Chamber Ensemble
Suk Hall
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
String Quartet No. 3 in G Major, K 156, 1st movement
Johann Sebastian Bach
Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D Major, BWV 1068, 2nd movement (“Air”)
Joseph Haydn
String Quartet in D Major, Op. 64, No. 5 (“The Lark”), 3rd movement
Ottorino Respighi
Ancient Airs and Dances, Suite No. 3 – Italiana, Andantino
Antonín Dvořák
String Quartet No. 12 in F Major, Op. 96 (“American”), 2nd movement
Antonín Dvořák
Waltz No. 1 in A Major, Op. 54
Antonín Dvořák
Waltz No. 2 in D Major, Op. 54
Tomáš Ille
Christmas Eve – a Christmas divertimento for string quartet (world premiere)
Bedřich Smetana
String Quartet No. 1 in E Minor (“From My Life”), 3rd movement
Antonín Dvořák
String Quartet No. 12 in F Major, Op. 96 (“American”), 4th movement
Chamber Ensemble Variation Prague
Jan Jouza
first violin
Petra Brabcová
second violin
Vlasta Beranová
viola
Josef Dvořák
cello
Suk Hall
Paul Peuerl
Three Dance Movements
Joseph Haydn
Trio in G Major, Hob. V:G1
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Divertimento in B Flat Major, K 252
Ludwig van Beethoven
Trio in B Flat Major, Op. 11
Jitka Koželuhová
Three Movements about the Story of Christmas
In modo camerale
Jana Brožková
oboe
Ludmila Peterková
clarinet
Jaroslav Kubita
bassoon
Daniel Wiesner
piano
Suk Hall
Luigi Boccherini
Quintet No. 4 for two violins, flute, viola, and cello, Op. 19, G 428
Jakub Jan Ryba
My Lovely Nightingale, pastorela
Gregor Joseph Werner
Pastorela in D Major
Tobias Volckmar
Herr nun lässest du deinen Diener im Friede fahren (Nunc dimittis)
Jaroslav Krček
String Quartet No. 1
Václav Adam Michna z Otradovic
Czech Marian Music
Lucie Brotbek-Prochásková
flute
Marie Fajtová
soprano
Robert Hugo
cembalo
Jaroslav Krček
composer
Czech Philharmonic Quartet
Štěpán Pražák
first violin
Viktor Mazáček
second violin
Jiří Poslední
viola
Jakub Dvořák
cello
Suk Hall
Arcangelo Corelli
Christmas ConJAZZto Grosso, Op. 6, No. 8
Antonín Dvořák
HumoRAGsque No. 7
Dominick James LaRocca
Tiger Rag
Irving Berlin
Blue Skies
Walter Donaldson
My Blue Heaven
Richard Rodgers / Lorenz Hart
Blue Moon
George Gershwin / Ballard MacDonald
Somebody Loves Me
Jule Styne
Let It Snow
Mel Tormé / Bob Wells
The Christmas Song
Irving Berlin
White Christmas
Ben Bernie / Maceo Pinkard
Sweet Georgia Brown
Frank Perkins / Mitchell Parish
Stars Fell on Alabama
Vincent Youmans / Irving Caesar
Tea for Two
Lepold Korbař / Jaroslav Moravec
Hm, hm, ach ty jsi úžasná (Hm, Hm, You Are So Amazing)
Václav Pokorný / Jiří Mládek
Říkej mi to, prosím, potichoučku (Please Say It To Me Quietly)
Elena Sonenshine
singing
Český Swingharmonický Blue Orchestr
Marcel Kozánek
first violin
Milena Kolářová
second violin
Ondřej Kameš
viola
Pavel Ludvík
cello
Jiří Vopálka
double bass
Jan Brabec
clarinet
Jan Keller
guitar
Jan Linhart
percussion
Suk Hall
Jacobus Handl Gallus / arr. Břetislav Kotrba
Canite tuba in Sion, Advent antiphon
Gottfried Finger / arr. Břetislav Kotrba
Sonata in D, Op. 1/9
Claudio Monteverdi / arr. Břetislav Kotrba
Adoramus Te Christe
Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber / arr. Břetislav Kotrba
Serenade mit Nachtwächter A 877a
Giulio Caccini / arr. Břetislav Kotrba
Ave Maria
Jakub Jan Ryba / arr. Břetislav Kotrba
Milí synáčkové (Dear Little Sons), pastorela
Jakub Jan Ryba / arr. Břetislav Kotrba
Housle zněte! (Let the Violin Be Heard), pastorela
Gustav Mahler / arr. Břetislav Kotrba
Symphony No. 2, 4th movement (“Urlicht”)
Georges Bizet
Agnus Dei
Emil Waldteufel / arr. Břetislav Kotrba
Skaters’ Waltz, Op. 183
Václav Kozel
Sloth from the cycle “The Seven Deadly Sins”
Bohuslav Lédl
Last Minute Menu, selections
Jiří Kadlec
Fantazie
The Czech Philharmonic Low Brass Ensemble
Robert Kozánek, Lukáš Moťka, Jan Perný, Lukáš Besuch, Bohumil Tůma
trombones
Karel Malimánek
tuba
Suk Hall
Arcangelo Corelli
Concerto grosso in G Minor, Op. 6, No. 8 (“Fatto per la notte di Natale”)
Johann Pachelbel
Canon in D Major, P 37
Antonio Vivaldi
The Four Seasons, four concertos for violin and string orchestra, Op. 8
Prague Vivaldi Ensemble
Helena Skopová
violin solo
Ondřej Skopový, Petra Brabcová
violin
Dominik Trávníček
viola
Tomáš Hostička
cello
Jiří Vopálka
double bass
Debora Konečná
cembalo
