Special Concerts
To enter our new season, we are truly putting our best foot forward with the violin virtuoso and Artist-in-Residence Janine Jansen and our chief conductor Semyon Bychkov, who join the Czech Philharmonic in honouring Dmitri Shostakovich’s 120th birthday. Our traditional concluding Open Air Concert will commemorate Jiří Bělohlávek.
Our New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day Concerts will feature Czech and Slovak soloists. Concertmaster Jan Mráček will play a composition by Fritz Kreisler, and soprano Simona Šaturová will sing arias by Mozart and Gounod. Leading the programme with a strong focus on opera is the music director of London’s Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Vasily Petrenko.
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What's On
Dmitri Shostakovich
Violin Concerto No. 1 in A minor, Op. 77
Antonín Dvořák
Symphony No. 7 in D minor, Op. 70
Performers
Janine Jansen violin
Semyon Bychkov conductor
Czech Philharmonic
What's On
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Don Giovanni, overture to the opera, K 621
“L’amerò, sarò costante”, Aminta’s aria from Act II of the opera Il re pastore, K 208
Ludwig van Beethoven
Leonore Overture No. 3, Op. 72a
Fritz Kreisler (arr. by David Garrett a Franck van der Heijden)
Praeludium and Allegro for violin and orchestra
Jules Massenet
Meditation from Act II of the opera Thaïs
Charles Gounod
”Ah! Je ris de me voir si belle”, Marguerite's aria from Act III of the opera Faust
Paul Dukas
The Sorcerer’s Apprentice, symphonic scherzo after a ballad by Goethe
Performers
Simona Šaturová soprano
Jan Mráček violin
Vasily Petrenko conductor
Czech Philharmonic
Marek Eben host
