The concert showed that muses have not died
The title of this news is from the newspaper article of Mr. Vladimir Čech, published in “Mladá fronta dnes”. The article refers about the concert, that took place in Zlín on May 13th.
The concert was in the framework of Talentinum Festival (it is organized by Bohuslav Martinů Philharmonic Orchestra), and the soloist was the “prodigy child from 1982 year” pianist Igor Ardašev, who performed Brahms Piano Concerto No. 1 in D minor.
Bohuslav Martinů Philharmonic Orchestra under the baton of Maestro Tomáš Hanus accompanied Igor Ardašev. Together with the Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 4 in the second part of the concert, they did excellent concert.
Read the excerpt from the above mentioned article: “Igor Ardašev, virtuoso of the piano, uncovered many secrets of the score by his playing. The conductor Tomáš Hanus stressed, especially in first movement, the melancholy of the piece. The success of the concert was convincing, Igor Ardašev played two nice encores – Suk Idyll and Rachmaninov Preludium in C minor.”
Read the whole article here.
The Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra back in the Kölner Philharmonie
After their successful concert in 2008, the Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra was invited again this May to perform in this nice and inspiring venue. The orchestra with their chief conductor Vladimír Válek prepared an interesting programme – Beethoven overture Leonore III., Beethoven Violin Concerto and A. Dvořák 8th Symphony.
Soloist for the violin concerto was the renowned German artist – Sophia Jaffé, winner of several international competitions (1st prize at the Deutscher Musikwettbewerb and 3rd prize at the Queen Elisabeth Competition 2005). The concert ended by standing ovations, which is not usual for the sophisticated audience in Cologne.
Wonderful music
The regular cooperation between the Stuttgarter Philharmoniker with the chief conductor Gabriel Feltz, and the Czech Philharmonic Choir Brno, lasts eight years. The high level of the joint concerts was confirmed by the two latest concerts in end April and beginning May in Stuttgart and Erlangen.
This year we celebrate G. Mahler life anniversary, on the programme of the concerts was Mahler’s Symphony No. 3, long and demanding piece composed in summer 1896. The concerts with Stuttgarter Philharmoniker, Alexandra Petersamer, Aurelius Sängerknaben Calw children choir, Czech Philharmonic Choir Brno under the baton of Gabriel Feltz were very successful, and ended by long lasting ovations.
Sophia Jaffé’s debut with the State Opera Hannover Orchestra and with the Dortmund Philharmonic Orchestra
Sophia Jaffé performed in April in Hannover with the State Opera Hannover Orchestra, under the baton of Estonian conductress Anu Tali. On the programme was E. W. Korngold Violin Concerto.
The second concert in April was with the Dortmund Philharmonic Orchestra under the baton of Mikhel Kuetson. The orchestra perfectly accompanied Ms. Jaffé in A. Glazunov Violin Concerto A minor op. 82.
Czech Philharmonic Choir Brno at the opening concert of Dvořák’s Olomouc
Festival St. Maurice Church in Olomouc resounded with Antonín Dvořák Requiem music on May 13th. The opening concert of the Dvořák’s Olomouc Festival took place there. In the concert participated renowned and experienced performers – Moravian Philharmonic Olomouc under the baton of the chief conductor Petr Vronský, Czech Philharmonic Choir Brno with the chorusmaster Petr Fiala, Pavla Vykopalová (soprano), Kateřina Jalovcová (alto), Tomáš Černý (tenor) and Martin Gurbaľ (bass).
The festival concert ended by long lasting standing ovations. It is a pity that the concert was not broadcasted by radio or TV. The acoustics of the St. Maurice Church is perfect, and the possible TV broadcast would show also the wonderful interior decoration of the church.
The Storm with Czech Philharmonic Choir Brno
In the period between April 15th and 19th the Czech Philharmonic Choir Brno performed in three concerts at the Prague Rudolfinum.
The first two concerts (on April 15th and 16th) were with the Czech Philharmonic, and the third one with the Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra.
The Czech Philharmonic concerts were under the baton of Ondrej Lenárd. After Janáček Sinfonietta, the concerts continued with rarely performed piece, The Storm by Vítězslav Novák. The vocal soli in this very demanding piece were Kateřina Kněžíková and Dana Burešová (soprano), Michal Lehotský (tenor), Roman Janál (baritone), Miloš Horák and Zdeněk Plech (bass).
At the concert with the Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra the choir performed in Dvořák Stabat Mater, under the baton of Vladimír Válek and with soli Zdena Kloubová (soprano), Andrea Kalivodová (alto), Michal Lehotský (tenor) and Zdeněk Plech (bass). All the three concerts were great success, and ended by long lasting ovations.
Czech Philharmonic Choir Brno at Prague Easter Festival
The renowned Czech Philharmonic Choir Brno performed at three concerts of the Prague Easter Festival. At the opening concert in Church of St. Simon and St. Jude (on March 30th 2010) the choir performed a cappella repertoire, mostly A. Bruckner sacred motets. By the way, the choir’s recording of Bruckner motets was awarded by ECHO Klassik 2007. The perfect acoustics of the church allowed the choir to work with all dynamic nuances of the human voice. The singers perfectly reacted to every tiny gesture of the chorusmaster and conductor Petr Fiala.
At the second and third concert (in Municipal House’s Smetana Hall), the choir performed Dvořák Stabat Mater with Prague Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Petr Altrichter. The artists brought to life Dvořák emotional and demanding piece in perfect performances, which ended by long lasting ovations.
The theme of „Night“ by Hamburg Philharmonic
The Czech Philharmonic Choir Brno was invited by the Hamburg Philharmonic to perform in two concerts in March 2010. The concerts took place in Laiszhalle concert hall under the baton of the Hamburg Philharmonic chief conductress Simone Young, and the motto of the programme was „Night“.
After Mozart Eine kleine Nachtmusik and Schonberg Verklärte Nacht came the pieces performed by the Czech Philharmonic Choir Brno. First were Debussy Nocturnes, with the ladies choir singing the "Sirènes". The excellent concert concluded with Szymanowski Symphony No.3 – Song of the Night.
Jakub Klecker conducted the Prague Symphony Orchestra
Conductor Jakub Klecker led the Prague Symphony Orchestra in their Sunday concert for families in the end of March. The concert started with Dvořák unique cello concerto, excellent young Czech cellist Domimika Hošková playing the solo. The evening continued with the romantic Tchaikovsky 4th Symphony in F minor in the second half.
This first cooperation of the young conductor Jakub Klecker with the internationally renowned orchestra brought fresh and youthful performance of two often played pieces and vibrant energy to the Smetana Hall in Prague Municipal House.
Verdi Requiem in Hungary
Brno Philharmonic, Czech Philharmonic Choir Brno, soloists Lada Biriucov (soprano), Galia Ibragimova (alto), Ľudovít Ludha (tenor), Peter Mikuláš (bas) joined the forces under the baton of conductor Aleksandar Marković and prepared famous music piece by Verdi Requiem to perform it at three concerts in Hungary during the first March week 2010. The audience in almost fully sold out halls in Szombathely, Budapest (Palace of Arts) and Szekésfehérvár awarded all artists by warm and long lasting scanned applause.
Czech Philharmonic Choir Brno performed with the Dresden Philhamonic
Dresden Philharmonic fifth concert in one of their concert series was dedicated to commemorate 65 years from bombing of Dresden in the end of the World War II.
Staatskapelle Dresden commemorated the event by concert with Mozart Requiem. Dresden Philharmonic invited the Czech Philharmonic Choir Brno to perform A. Dvořák Requiem. The concert was under the baton of Maestro Jiří Kout, with excellent soloists Ľuba Orgonašová, Alexandra Petersamer, Michael König and Rudolph Rosen. The concert was great success.
Leoš Svárovský and Stuttgart Philharmonic Orchestra explored Smetana’s My Country
In the end of February and beginning March Maestro Leoš Svárovský guest performed at the Stuttgart Philharmonic Orchestra. His concerts with Smetana My Country received great critical acclaim. In one of the press articles we can read: “The Czech conductor, who studied with Václav Neumann, conducts the piece by heart. Besides this, he can recognize every moment, in which he has to act strongly, and in which the mild leadership is better for the orchestra, which played with great pleasure. Maestro Svárovský surprised by his very strong and structured interpretation of the cycle of six symphonic poems, with which Smetana wanted to create a musical monument of his homeland.” jha, Stuttgarter Zeitung
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Festival Exposition of New Music invites us to the world of contemporary music
This year's program reflects the wide variability of musical space, without pandering to the masses, or following uniformity. Today this space has become a natural environment for a wide range of creative approaches.
This allows juxtaposition of classic works of music of the late 20th century - America's Morton Feldman and John Cage, the Ukraine's Valentyn Silvestrov, famous British music journalist and experimenter David Toop, mysterious sound objects from DAMA DAMA's leader Dan Dlouhý, or music in real time, developed by the American trombonist Nicolas Collins, Dutchman Hilary Jeffery and the Austro-Hungarian Abstract Monarchy Duo.
The absence of integrated subject matter for this music festival does not mean the theme is missing. The theme is the music itself and its variety of forms.
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Conductor Jakub Klecker in TV talk show
Young conductor Jakub Klecker will appear as a guest in the popular Czech TV talk show Všechnopárty. The show will be broadcasted March 2nd at 21:10 on Czech TV first channel. Motto of this edition of the show is “Young Hope”, and together with Jakub Klecker were invited actor Vojta Kotek and film director and screenwriter Tomáš Řehořek.
Jakub Klecker ”visited” the northern countries with the Moravian Philharmonic Olomouc
Jakub Klecker latest cooperation with the Moravian Philharmonic Olomouc took place in Olomouc on January 21st 2010.
Sibelius festive Finlandia opened the concert, after which followed Carl Nielsen flute concerto in two movements, performed by the renowned German flutist András Adorján. The soloist came back to the stage after pause, when he performed in Bernstein nocturne Halil. This very demanding piece is based on “dialogues” of solo flute and the orchestra instruments. The Moravian Philharmonic Olomouc members undertook this challenge with a great professionalism and effort.
The evening ended by parts from the Grieg Peer Gynt suites, with the monumental part In the Hall of the Mountain King at the very end.
Bravo for Czech Philharmonic Choir Brno in Mahler‘s „Auferstehung“ in Antwerpen and Brussels
Royal Flemish Philharmonic (deFilharmonie) invited Czech Philharmonic Choir Brno to participate in two concerts in Symphony No. 2 „Auferstehung“ by Gustav Mahler. First concert was held in the Queen Elisabeth hall in Antwerpen and second one in the Centre for Fine Arts (BOZAR) in Brussels. Both halls with capacity almost 2.000 seats were completly sold out and the audience gave numeros bravos and ovations to the artists (de Filharmonie, Koorakademie, Czech Philharmonic Choir Brno, conductor Jaap van Zweden, Birgit Remmert – alto, Camilla Tilling – soprano) for the superb peformances.
The unique cultural event to celebrate 20th anniversary of the partnership agreement between Brno and Stuttgart
The anniversary of signing the partnership agreement between cities of Brno and Stuttgart was celebrated by several cultural events. The last concert in 2009 in Stuttgart had symbolic programme – Beethoven 9th Symphony with Ode to Joy.
Stuttgarter Philharmoniker with their chief conductor Gabriel Feltz invited the Czech Philharmonic Choir Brno to perform with them at this concert. The sold out Liederhalle at that evening was nice closure of the celebrations, and confirmation that both the sides wish to continue the partnership.
Czech artists at Christmas time in Liechtenstein
It's a cold late pre-Christmas afternoon. People from close and far are coming in the beautiful parish church of St. Laurenzius Liechtenstein Schaan.
They are rushing to the warmth of the church, to hear the music of Jacobus Gallus, Anton Bruckner and Franz Liszt. Following czech artists were invited to this artistic performance: Czech Chamber Soloists, Czech Philharmonic Choir Brno, conductor Petr Fiala, organist Martin Jakubíček and soloists Hana Škarková and Jakub Tuček.
Outside has got meanwhile almost dark and the audicence is listening carefully in a quiet contemplation. The concert is ending and the audience seem not to want to dare make a stormy applause, after which, it requires three more encores. The whole place resounds with words of appreciatoin and gratefullness for an entracing experience...
Sophia Jaffé’s debut in Salzburg
Sophia Jaffé performed for the first time in Salzburg in the frameworks of „World of Music“ cycle. The concert in great hall of Festspielhaus was on request of the audience - on the programme with Smetana Moldau, Khachaturyan Violin Concerto and Dvořák Symphony No. 7. The concert was third cooperation of Maestro Leoš Svárovský with Mozarteum Orchester Salzburg.
The result of their cooperation was excellent and successful concert, about 1900 excited listeners and very satisfied promoter.
(Foto: Martin Suchánek.)
Czech Philharmonic Choir Brno sang for the King of Thailand
In the first December days the members of the Czech Philharmonic Choir Brno for the first time arrived to Thai Bangkok to perform together with Thailand Philharmonic Orchestra, their chief conductor Gudni A. Emilsson (Island) and good-sized choirs of Mahidol University, College of Music Beethoven Symphony No. 9.
The audience in the fully seated concert hall of the Mahidol Universtiy, College of Music highly appreciated both concerts and gave storm of applaus to almost 240 performers. Beethoven music fascinated the local audience and the concerts became the part of the grandiose birthday celebrations of the Thai King Rama IX.
