Orchestral Series - Chamber Orchestras

May 14

Spanish Hall, Prague Castle

8.00 pm

An evening of guitar concertos

guitar: Lubomir Brabec

Janacek Chamber Orchestra

program:

Antonio Vivaldi - Concerto in D, RV93

Johann Sigismund Weiss - Concerto in D

Lubos Fiser - Sonata per Leonardo - world premiere

Lubos Fiser - Pastorela per Giuseppe Tartini - world premiere

Sylivie Bodorova - Tre Canzone da Suonare

Joseph Hayden - Concerto in D

May 22

Dvorak Hall, Rudolfinum

8.00 pm

Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra

music director: Tom Koopman

soloists: Barbara Schlick, Kai Wessel, Chrostoph Pregardien, Klaus Mertens

program:

Johann Sebastian Bach - Cantatas 182, 203, 524, 132 and 199

May 23

Spanish Hall, Prague Castle

Tribute to Henry Purcell II.

Freiburger Barock Orchester

Balthasar Neumann - Chor

concudtor: Thomas Hengelbrock

program:

Henry Purcell - King Arthur - concert performance of the opera

May 26

Dvorak Hall, Rudolfinum

8.00

Orpheus Chamber Orchestra

program:

Gioachion Rossini - Overture, La cambiale di matrimonio

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Symphony in A major, K 201

Gabriel Faure - Pavane

Bela Bartok - Divertimento

May 27

Church of SS Simon and Jude

8.00 pm

In association with the Austrian Culture Institute

Wiener Akademie

music director: Martin Haselbock

program:

Johann Sebastian Bach - Brandenburg Concertos (No.4 in G major, No. 5 in D major, No.6 in B flat and No, 2 in F major)

May 29

Dvorak Hall, Rudolfinum

8.00 pm

Prague Chamber Orchestra

violin: Jean-Pierre Wallez

percission: Andre Arpino

program:

First prize composition of the Prague Spring International Music Competition of 1995

Jacques Loussier - Concerto for violin and percussion

Johann Sebastian Bach - Violin Concerto in A minor

Jaseph Haydn - Symphony

June 1

Dvorak Hall, Rudolfinum

8.00 pm

Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra Pardubice

conductor: Douglas Bostock

cello: Raphael Perraud (Laureate of the 1994 Prague Spring International Music Competition)

program:

Antonin Dvorak - Czech Suite

Camille Saint-Saens - Cello Concerto in A minor

Johannes Brahms - Serenade No. 1 in D major

June 1

Spanish Hall, Prague Castle

8.00 pm

In Association with the U.S. Embassy

The Orchestra of the S.E.M. Ensemble

conductor: Petr Kotik

assistant conductor: Thomas Buckner

piano: Cdavid Tudor

piano: Joseph Kubera

program:

Edgard Varese - Integrales

John Cage - Concert for Piano and Orchestra

Edgard Varese - Deserts

Morton Feldman - The Turfan Fragments