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Subscription Series B
Series B opens with Giovanni Antonini and features conductors including Chief Conductor Semyon Bychkov, Antonio Pappano and Jakub Hrůša. Among the soloists are Evgeny Kissin, Víkingur Ólafsson and Nicola Benedetti. The season spans styles from Baroque to the 21st century.
The opening Baroque–Classical programme will be conducted by Giovanni Antonini. Chief Conductor Semyon Bychkov presents a blend of traditional and contemporary works, while Antonio Pappano leads a one-act opera by Luigi Dallapiccola. Jakub Hrůša explores an inspired combination of Josef Suk, Britten and Dessner. Cristian Măcelaru returns after a decade, presenting Wynton Marsalis’s violin concerto with Nicola Benedetti. Also featured are Czech Philharmonic musicians Jan Fišer, Václav Petr and Karolina Pancernaite, mezzo-soprano Fleur Barron, pianists Evgeny Kissin and Víkingur Ólafsson, and a surprising touch—two electric guitars.
Subscription series B
What's On
Maurice Ravel
Mother Goose, suite for the orchestra (16')
Sergei Prokofiev
Piano Concerto No. 1 in D flat major, Op. 10 (16')
— Intermission —
Edward Elgar
Variations on an Original Theme, Op. 36 "Enigma Variations" (31')
Performers
Evgeny Kissin piano
Elim Chan conductor
Czech Philharmonic
What's On
Luigi Dallapiccola
Il prigioniero (The Prisoner), a concert performance of the one-act opera (Czech premiere) (50')
— Intermission —
Ludwig van Beethoven
Piano Concerto No. 5 in E flat major, Op. 73 “Emperor” (38')
Performers
Brian Mulligan The Prisoner
Ángeles Blancas Gulín The Mother
Valentyn Dytiuk The Gaoler / The Grand Inquisitor
Prague Philharmonic Choir
Simon Halsey choirmaster
Víkingur Ólafsson piano
Antonio Pappano conductor
Czech Philharmonic
What's On
Ludwig van Beethoven
Triple Concerto for violin, cello, piano, and orchestra in C major, Op. 56 (33')
— Intermission —
Antonio Vivaldi
Concerto No. 3 in D major “Il Cardellino”, Op. 10 (10')
Joseph Haydn
Symphony No. 54 in G major, Hob I:54 (28')
Performers
Jan Fišer violin
Václav Petr cello
Karolina Pancernaite piano
Giovanni Antonini recorder, conductor
Czech Philharmonic
What's On
Josef Suk
Triptych, Op. 35
Meditation on the Old Czech Chorale ‘St. Wenceslas’, Op. 35a (8')
Legend of the Dead Victors, Op. 35b (8'30)
Towards a New Life, Op. 35c (6'15)
Bryce Dessner
St. Carolyn by the Sea (Czech premiere) (15')
— Intermission —
Benjamin Britten
Four Sea Interludes from the opera Peter Grimes (16')
Josef Suk
Praga, symphonic poem for large orchestra, Op. 26 (25')
Performers
Bryce Dessner electric guitar
David Chalmin electric guitar
Jakub Hrůša conductor
Czech Philharmonic
What's On
Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy
Symphony No. 4 in A major, Op. 90 “Italian” (27')
— Intermission —
Gustav Mahler
Kindertotenlieder (27')
Richard Wagner
Tannhäuser, overture to the opera (14')
Performers
Fleur Barron mezzo-soprano
Semyon Bychkov conductor
Czech Philharmonic
What's On
Wynton Marsalis
Violin Concerto in D major (Czech premiere) (44')
— Intermission —
Bohuslav Martinů
Symphony No. 1, H 289 (33')
Performers
Nicola Benedetti violin
Cristian Măcelaru conductor
Czech Philharmonic