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This season’s orchestral series blends tradition with bold choices—featuring just three large symphonies, a range of shorter works, and iconic pieces like Mozart’s Requiem and Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring. Chief Conductor Semyon Bychkov leads two of the programmes.

Other concerts in the series are curated by Simon Rattle, who combines Debussy, Messiaen and Mahler; Jakub Hrůša, who places Sibelius alongside Suk; and Thomas Adès, presenting the most contemporary programme, including his own compositions. Giovanni Antonini brings a fresh take on Viennese classics with the Czech Student Philharmonic. Among this season’s featured soloists are mezzo-soprano Magdalena Kožená, pianist Mao Fujita, violinists Augustin Hadelich and Josef Špaček, and cellist Anastasia Kobekina in her Czech Philharmonic debut.

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Photo illustrating a concert - event Czech Philharmonic Mao Fujita

What's On

Richard Strauss
Burlesque for piano and orchestra in D minor, TrV 145 (17')

— Intermission —

Dmitri Shostakovich
Symphony No. 8 in C minor, Op. 65 (61')

Performers

Mao Fujita piano 

Semyon Bychkov conductor
Czech Philharmonic

Photo illustrating a concert - event Czech Philharmonic Thomas Adès

What's On

Ferruccio Busoni
Tanzwalzer, Op. 53, BV 288 

Pierre Boulez
Messagesquisse 

György Kurtág  
Petite musique solennelle – En hommage à Pierre Boulez 90 (Czech premiere)

Thomas Adès
The Exterminating Angel Symphony (Czech premiere)
Air – Homage to Sibelius for violin and orchestra (Czech premiere)

Maurice Ravel
La Valse 

Performers

Josef Špaček violin
Václav Petr cello 

Thomas Adès conductor 
Czech Philharmonic

Photo illustrating a concert - event Czech Philharmonic Magdalena Kožená

What's On

Claude Debussy
Nocturnes, L 98 

Olivier Messiaen
Poèmes pour Mi, book two 

Gustav Mahler
Symphony No. 4 in G major 

Performers

Magdalena Kožená mezzo-soprano

Prague Philharmonic Choir women’s choir
Lukáš Vasilek choirmaster 

Simon Rattle conductor 
Czech Philharmonic

Photo illustrating a concert - event Czech Philharmonic Giovanni Antonini

What's On

Ludwig van Beethoven
Symphony No. 4 in B flat major, Op. 60 

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Requiem in D minor, K 626 

Performers

Giulia Semenzato soprano 
Helen Charlston alto 
Patrick Grahl tenor 
Ashley Riches bass 

Prague Philharmonic Choir
Lukáš Vasilek choirmaster 

Czech Philharmonic Youth Orchestra* 

Giovanni Antonini conductor 
Czech Philharmonic

* The Czech Philharmonic Youth Orchestra is playing Beethoven’s Symphony No. 4. 

Photo illustrating a concert - event Czech Philharmonic Jakub Hrůša

What's On

Josef Suk
Tale of a Winter’s Eve, Op. 9 

Jean Sibelius
Violin Concerto in D minor, Op. 47 

Jean Sibelius
The Oceanides, Op. 73 

Josef Suk
Fairy Tale, a suite from incidental music to Zeyer’s fairy-tale drama Radúz and Mahulena, Op. 16  

Performers

Augustin Hadelich violin

Jakub Hrůša conductor
Czech Philharmonic

Photo illustrating a concert - event Czech Philharmonic Anastasia Kobekina

What's On

Henri Dutilleux
Métaboles 

Bryce Dessner
Cello Concerto taking the form of a tone poem (European premiere)

Igor Stravinsky
The Rite of Spring 

Performers

Anastasia Kobekina cello 

Semyon Bychkov conductor 
Czech Philharmonic