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Special Concerts
The 128th season will open with three evenings commemorating the history shared by the Czech Philharmonic and Antonín Dvořák. For the Concerts for Freedom and Democracy, we are welcoming the conductor Antonio Pappano, and our New Year’s Concerts will bring us into the Year of Czech Music, to which the Open Air Concert will also be devoted.
The season opens with three evenings of chief conductor Semyon Bychkov presenting a Dvořák programme crowned by his Eighth Symphony, and we are also eagerly anticipating the appearance of the outstanding violinist Augustin Hadelich. Also choosing Dvořák is the legendary artist Antonio Pappano, chief conductor of the Royal Opera House and of the Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, and we can look forward to his interpretation of the second series of Slavonic Dances. Not to be overshadowed is the superb violinist Janine Jansen, who will play Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto in E minor. Jakub Hrůša will give three New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day concerts in the Czech spirit while commemorating the 100th anniversary of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. In accordance with tradition, Petr Altrichter is preparing the Open Air Concert to get you dancing along with an outstanding vocal trio.
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What's On
Antonín Dvořák
In Nature’s Realm, concert overture, Op. 91 (12')
Antonín Dvořák
Violin Concerto in A minor, Op. 53 (32')
— Intermission —
Antonín Dvořák
Symphony No. 8 in G major, Op. 88 (38')
Performers
Augustin Hadelich violin
Semyon Bychkov conductor
Czech Philharmonic
What's On
Johannes Brahms
Nänie for mixed choir and orchestra, Op. 82 (14')
Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy
Violin Concerto in E minor, Op. 64 (26')
— Intermission —
Antonín Dvořák
Slavonic Dances, Op. 72 (35')
Performers
Janine Jansen violin
Prague Philharmonic Choir
Lukáš Vasilek choirmaster
Antonio Pappano conductor
Czech Philharmonic
What's On
Antonín Dvořák
Nocturne in B major, Op. 40
Antonín Dvořák
Romance for Violin and Orchestra in F minor, Op. 11 (13')
Leoš Janáček
Lachian Dances (Selections) (6')
Dymák
Pilky
Antonín Dvořák
Mazurek for violin and orchestra, Op. 49 (6')
— Intermission —
Bedřich Smetana
The Bartered Bride, overture to the opera (7')
Oskar Nedbal
Valse triste from the ballet pantomime
The Tale of Simple Johnny (5')
Antonín Dvořák
Suite in A major, Op. 98b (8')
“American Suite”
movements I and V
George Gershwin
Rhapsody in Blue (16')
Performers
Olga Kern piano
Jiří Vodička violin
Jakub Hrůša conductor
Czech Philharmonic
What's On
Alan Menken, arr. Doug Besterman
Beauty and the Beast, ouverture (3'30)
Alan Jay Lerner, Frederick Loewe
“On the Street Where You Live” from My Fair Lady (3'30)
“I Could Have Danced All Night” from My Fair Lady (3')
Irving Berlin
“You’re Just in Love” from Call me madam (3')
Stephen Sondheim, arr. Sheridan Morley
“No One is Alone” from Into the Woods, orchestra (4')
Stephen Sondheim
“Send in the Clowns” from A Little Night Music (3')
Jerry Bock, Sheldon Harnick
“She Loves Me” from She Loves Me (3')
Andrew Lloyd Webber, Tim Rice
“Don’t Cry for Me, Argentina” from Evita (4')
Leonard Bernstein
“Tonight” from West Side Story (5'30)
Mambo from West Side Story (4')
— Intermission —
Andrew Lloyd Webber, arr. Pat Hollenbeck, Angela Morley
„The Music of the Night“ from The Phantom of the Opera (5')
Andrew Lloyd Webber, arr. Charles Hart, Richard Stilgoe
“All I Ask of You” from The Phantom of the Opera (4'30)
Alain Boublil, Claude-Michel Schönberg
“Bring Him Home” from Les Miserables (3'30)
Meredith Willson
“Till There Was You” from The Music Man (3')
“76 Trombones” from The Music Man (3')
Robert Lopez, Kristen Anderson-Lopez
“Let It Go” from Frozen (3')
Stephen Schwartz
“For Good” from Wicked (4'30)
Jerry Herman
“Before the Parade Passes By” from Hello, Dolly! (5')
Performers
Scarlett Strallen vocals
Hugh Panaro vocals
Keith Lockhart conductor
Czech Philharmonic
What's On
Antonín Dvořák
Festival March, Op. 54a (6')
Slavonic Dance No. 7 in C minor, Op. 46 (3')
Rondo for Violoncello and Orchestra G minor, Op. 94 (8')
Infernal Dance from Act II of the opera The Devil and Kate (4')
“Od dětství ku oltáři” (“From childhood to the altar”), Ludmila’s aria from the oratorio Saint Ludmila (4')
Antonín Dvořák / arranged by Jiří Teml
“Když mne stará matka” (“Songs my mother taught me”), song from the cycle Gypsy Melodies, Op. 55 (2')
Zdeněk Fibich
Poem from the idyll At Twilight, Op. 39 (5')
Bedřich Smetana
“A ty mé robě” (“And you, my baby”), lullaby from Act I of the opera The Kiss (4')
“Já ale zůstanu” (“But I shall remain”), Přemysl’s aria from Act II of the opera Libuše (3')
Furiant from Act II of the opera The Bartered Bride (2')
Vítězslav Novák
The Country Musicians, movement IV of the Moravian-Slovak Suite for small orchestra, Op. 32 (4')
Antonín Dvořák
“Jářku, jářku, klouče milé…” (“Tell me, dear boy…”), duet of the Gamekeeper and the Kitchen Boy from Act II of the opera Rusalka (4')
Performers
Kateřina Kněžíková soprano
Arnheiður Eiríksdóttir mezzo-soprano
Jiří Brückler baritone
Vilém Vlček cello
Petr Altrichter conductor
Marek Eben host
Czech Philharmonic