Subscription Series I
Chamber Series I opens with a star-studded trio: Joshua Bell, Steven Isserlis and Evgeny Kissin. Later highlights include the Alinde Quintet, season curator Mahan Esfahani, and the Czech Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra with Nicholas Kraemer in a Baroque finale.
The Czech Chamber Music Society is happy to welcome the Alinde Quintet, winners of the ARD Competition in Munich. Chamber Series I also embraces less conventional instrumental settings including Petr Wittich’s musical adaptation of The Little Prince for strings, winds and percussion. A special project devoted to Bohuslav Martinů will bring together the Martinů Voices and the Bennewitz Quartet and season curator Mahan Esfahani will present the second volume of Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier. The series concludes with a tribute to the Baroque, featuring the Czech Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra under the baton of early music specialist Nicholas Kraemer, performing Bach’s Brandenburg Concertos and more.
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Subscription series I
What's On
Solomon Rosowsky
Fantastic Dance, Op. 6 (9')
Dmitri Shostakovich
Piano Trio No. 2 in E minor, Op. 67 (30')
— Intermission —
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Piano Trio in A minor, Op. 50 (51')
Performers
Joshua Bell violin
Steven Isserlis cello
Evgeny Kissin piano
What's On
Giuseppe Verdi (arr. by Joachim Linckelmann)
La forza del destino, overture to the opera (8')
Dmitri Shostakovich (arr. by Mark A. Popkin)
String Quartet No. 8 in C minor, Op. 110 (19')
— Intermission —
Pēteris Vasks
Wind Quintet No. 2 “Music for a Deceased Friend” (10')
Edward Grieg (arr. by David Walter)
Norwegian Dances, Op. 35 (15')
Performers
Alinde Quintet
Anna Talacková flute
Barbora Trnčíková oboe
David Šimeček clarinet
Petr Sedlák bassoon
Kryštof Koska French horn
What's On
Peter Wittrich
The Little Prince (85')
Performers
Simone Rubino percussion
Franziska Rabl recitation, vocals
Zemlinsky Quartet
František Souček violin
Petr Střížek violin
Petr Holman viola
Vladimír Fortin cello
Jiří Skuhra flute
Jan Mach clarinet
Stanislav Masaryk trumpet
Lukáš Moťka trombone
Karel Malimánek tuba
Stanislav Gallin piano
What's On
Jiří Gemrot
The Burying of Light
Cantata for narrator, baritone, piano, string quartet, and mixed choir
Libretto based on verses, texts, and the poetry collection of the same name by Miloslav Bureš, written by Vojtěch Stříteský
Vysočina (Highlands)
Pochovávání světla (The Burying of Light)
Píseň (Song)
Podzim (Autumn) (30´)
— Intermission —
Bohuslav Martinů
Five Czech Madrigals for mixed voices, H 321
Vzkázání po holubince (A Message Carried by the Dove)
Bolavá hlavěnka (The Fickle Sweetheart)
Husičky na vodě (Geese on the Water)
Cestou k milé (The Lover’s Ride)
Čarování a pomluvy (The Witch) (6´)
Mikeš from the Hills, H 375
Cantata for soloists, mixed choir and instrumental accompaniment based on the text of a poem by Miloslav Bureš (22´)
Performers
Karolína Levková soprano
Martin Šrejma tenor
Roman Hoza baritone
Jan Šťastný recitation
Martinů Voices
Lukáš Vasilek choirmaster
Bennewitz Quartet
Jakub Fišer violin
Štěpán Ježek violin
Jiří Pinkas viola
Štěpán Doležal cello
Matouš Zukal piano
What's On
Johann Sebastian Bach
The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book II, BWV 870–893
Prelude and Fugue in C major, BWV 870
Prelude and Fugue in C minor, BWV 871
Prelude and Fugue in C-sharp major, BWV 872
Prelude and Fugue in C-sharp minor, BWV 873
Prelude and Fugue in D major, BWV 874
Prelude and Fugue in d minor, BWV 875
Prelude and Fugue in E-flat major, BWV 876
Prelude and Fugue in E-flat minor, BWV 877
Prelude and Fugue in E major, BWV 878
Prelude and Fugue in E minor, BWV 879
Prelude and Fugue in F major, BWV 880
Prelude and Fugue in F minor, BWV 881
70'
— Intermission —
Prelude and Fugue in F-sharp major, BWV 882
Prelude and Fugue in F-sharp minor, BWV 883
Prelude and Fugue in G major, BWV 884
Prelude and Fugue in G minor, BWV 885
Prelude and Fugue in A-flat major, BWV 886
Prelude and Fugue in G-sharp minor, BWV 887
Prelude and Fugue in A major, BWV 888
Prelude and Fugue in A minor, BWV 889
Prelude and Fugue in B-flat major, BWV 890
Prelude and Fugue in B-flat minor, BWV 891
Prelude and Fugue in B major, BWV 892
Prelude and Fugue in B minor, BWV 893
70'
Performers
Mahan Esfahani harpsichord
What's On
Johann Sebastian Bach
Brandenburg Concerto No. 1 in F major, BWV 1046 (21')
George Frideric Handel
Concerto grosso, Op. 6, No. 6, HWV 324 (15')
Johann Sebastian Bach
Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 in G major, BWV 1048 (12')
— Intermission —
Georg Philipp Telemann
Overture in D major, TWV 55:D21 (20')
Johann Sebastian Bach
Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 in D major, BWV 1050 (21')
Performers
Nicholas Kraemer conductor
Czech Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra