Orchestral series - Symphony Orechestras

May 12

Dvorak Hall, Rudolfinum

8.00 pm

Opening concert

Czech Philharmonic Orchestra

conductor: Libor Pesek

program:

Bedrich Smetana - My Country

May 13

Dvorak Hall, Rudofinum

8.00 pm

Czech Philharomic Orchestra

conductor: Libor Pesek

program:

Bedrich Smetana - My Country

May 14

Dvorak Hall, Rudolfinum

8.00 pm

Final round of the 47th Prague Spring Festival International Music Competition (conducting)

Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra

conductors: finalists of the 47th Prague Spring International Music Competition

program:

Richar Strauss - Till Eulenspiegel

Leos Janacek - Sinfonietta

Claude Debussy - La Mer

May 15

Dvorak Hall, Rudolfinum

8.00 pm

Japan Shinsei Symphony Orchestra

conductor: Ondrej Lenard

japanese drums: Eitetsu Hayashi

program:

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Overture, Magic Flute

Isao Matsushita: Wadaiko Concerto "Hi-Ten-Yu"

Gustav Mahler - Symphony No.5

May 16

Dvorak Hall, Rudolfinum

8.00

Under the patronage of the Czech Music Festival Association

Japan Shinsei Symphony Orchestra

conductor: Ryusuke Numajiri

piano: Yukio Yokoyama

program:

Toru Takemitru - Star Isle

Sergej Prokofjev - Piano Concerto No.3

Maurice Ravel - Rapsodie Expagnole

Maurice Ravel - Daphnis at Chloe

May 17

Dvorak Hall, Rudolfinum

8.00 pm

Moscow State Symphony Orchestra

conductor: Pavel Kogan

program:

Sergej Prokofjev - Romeo and Juliet

Nikolaj Rimskij - Korsakov - Scheherezada

May 18

Dvorak Hall, Rudolfinum

8.00 pm

Under the patronage of the European Festivals Association

Moscow State Symphony Orchestra

conductor: Pavel Kogan

program:

Franz Liszt - Les Preludes

Dmitirij Shostakovich - Symphony No.7 "Leningrad"

May 19

Cathedral of St Vitus

5.00 pm

Part of the series of European Cathedral Concerts

In association with The British Council

Czech Philharmonic Orchestra

conductor: Gerd Albrecht

The Huddersfield Choral Society

chorus master: Jan Rozehnal

Prague Children Choir

chorus master: Cestmir Stasek

soloists: Thomas Mohr, Deborah Riedel

program:

Benjamin Britten - Was Requiem

May 20

Dvorak Hall, Rudolfinum

8.00 pm

Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester

conductor: Vladimir Ashkenazy

contraalto: Iris Vermilion

Kuhn Women Choir

chorus master: Pavel Khun

Boni pueri

chorus master: Jiri Skopal

program:

Gustav Mahler - Symphony No.3

May 21

Dvorak Hall, Rudolfinum

8.00 pm

Prague Symphony Orchestra

conductor: Walter Weller

viola: Josef Suk

program:

Antonin Dvorak - Carneval

Bohuslav Martinu - Rhapsody-Concerto

Johannes Brahms - Symphony No.2

May 23

Dvorak Hall, Rudolfinum

8.00 pm

Berliner Philharmonisches Orchester

conductor: Claudio Abbado

program:

Ludwig van Beethoven - Symphony No.8

Ludwig van Beethoven - Symphony No.3 "Eroica"

May 31

Dvorak Hall, Rudolfinum

8.00 pm

Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra

conductor: Vladimir Valek

violin: Vaclav Hudecek

program:

Antonin Dvorak - The Water Goblin

Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy - Violin Concerto

Leos Janacek - Taras Bulba

June 2

Dvorak Hall, Rudolfinum

8.00 pm

Closing Concert

Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra

conductor: Jiri Belohlavek

soloists: Eva Urbanova, Bernarda Fink, Leo Marian Vodicka, Peter Mikulas

Prague Philharmonic Choir

chorus master: Pavel Khun

program:

Petr Eben - Vox clamantis

Ludwig van Beethoven - Symphony No.9