Czech Chamber Music Society • Czech Saxophone Quartet

Academy of Performing Arts — Martinů Hall 1 hour 10 minutes Price from 230 to 270 CZK

Martinů Hall in Liechtenstein Palace is coloured a shade of blue, but it will be full of the golden syncopations of the Czech Saxophone Quartet. The wind instruments invented by Adolph Sax will play music of the Renaissance (arrangements, of course) and contemporary works.

Programme

Claudio Monteverdi / arr. Zdenko Kašpar
Io mi son giovinetta, SV 86 (3')

Johann Sebastian Bach
Prelude and Fugue No. 22 in B flat minor, BWV 867 (6')

Georg Friedrich Händel / arr. Pierre Hamon
Suite No. 1 in F major, HWV 348 “Water Music”, selections (3')

Tomáš Hanzlík 
“In furto est opus dolo”, from the opera Endymio (5')
Gothic Suite, selections 
Intrada, Andante rubato (3')

Kateřina Horká 
Saxophone quintet (world premiere) (7')

— Intermission —

David Eben 
Short clothes (3')
Že by? (Might It Be?) (3')

Václav Pokorný 
Šumění deště (The Patter of Rainfall) (3')

Jaroslav Mangl / Jaroslav Kopáček / arr. Jiří Toufar
Dva roky jezdím bez nehod (I’ve been driving two years without an accident) (3')

Eduard Parma / arr. Jiří Toufar
Path to the Stars (4')

Sláva Eman Nováček / arr. Jiří Toufar
Mám život hrozně rád (I love life so much) (3')

Performers

Czech Saxophone Quartet
Roman Fojtíček saxophone 
Radim Kvasnica saxophone 
Otakar Martinovský saxophone 
Michal Kostiuk saxophone 

David Eben saxophone 

Subscription series DK
Czech Chamber Music Society
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Individual tickets for all public dress rehearsals will go on sale on 10 September 2025 at 10 a.m.

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