Program 2024

Ceremonial opening concert

The concert is held under the auspices of the Ambassador of Finland in
the Czech Republic, H. E. Pasi Tuominen, and the Ambassador of Denmark in the
Czech Republic, H. E. Søren Kelstrup.

Janne Thomsen / flute
Olli Mustonen / conductor artist in residence

Prague Philharmonia

Programme:
Olli Mustonen
Concert for flute and orchestra „Sadunkertoja“ – world premiere

Bedřich Smetana
String quartet No. 1 in E minor “From my life“ (arr. for the orchestra George Szell)

With the support of:

Simona Šaturová / soprano
Zemlinsky Quartet
František Souček, Petr Střížek / violins
Petr Holman / viola
Vladimír Fortin / cello

Programme:
Bedřich Smetana
Evening Songs (selection, arr. Martin Wiesner)

Antonín Dvořák
Love Songs Op. 83 (selection, arr. Aleš Březina)

Leoš Janáček
Moravian folk poetry in songs (selection, arr. Vladimír Godár)

Leoš Janáček
Youth (arr. Kryštof Mařatka)

Bohuslav Martinů
Thésee, je respire une dernière fois (Ariadne, arr. Martin Wiesner)

Bedřich Smetana
Should I ever learn… (The Bartered Bride, arr. Martin Wiesner)

Antonín Dvořák
Song to the Moon (Rusalka, arr. Martin Wiesner)

Simona Šaturová / soprano
Zemlinsky Quartet
František Souček, Petr Střížek / violins
Petr Holman / viola
Vladimír Fortin / cello

Programme:

Bedřich Smetana
Evening Songs (selection, arr. Martin Wiesner)

Antonín Dvořák
Love Songs Op. 83 (selection, arr. Aleš Březina)

Leoš Janáček
Moravian folk poetry in songs (selection, arr. Vladimír Godár)

Leoš Janáček
Youth (arr. Kryštof Mařatka)

Bohuslav Martinů
Thésee, je respire une dernière fois (Ariadne, arr. Martin Wiesner)

Bedřich Smetana
Should I ever learn… (The Bartered Bride, arr. Martin Wiesner)

Antonín Dvořák
Song to the Moon (Rusalka, arr. Martin Wiesner)

Ivo Kahánek / piano

Programme:
Bedřich Smetana
Concert Etude in G sharp minor Op. 17 On the Sea Shore
Concert Etude in C major

Leoš Janáček
Sonata 1. X. 1905 From the Street

Viktor Kalabis
Three Polkas for Piano, Op. 52

Gideon Klein
Sonata

Franz Liszt
Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2

Iva Bittová / violin, voice
Jakub Jedlinský / accordion
Pavel Fischer / violin

Programme:
P. Fischer, J. Jedlinský: Freylech, Gankino horo
I. Bittová: Rodav me / Aušvicate (Devleha), Loli ruža
P. Fischer, J. Jedlinský: Janoško / Bešla e čhaj
I. Bittová: Svadobná
P. Fischer: Svatbenka
P. Fischer, J. Jedlinský: Keby ma mamko
P. Fischer: Karpatská
I. Bittová: Počůvaj / L’ul’aj
P. Fischer, J. Jedlinský: Račenica
I. Bittová: Malíři v Paříži / Painters in Paris
P. Fischer, J. Jedlinský: Co sa stalo, Doina
I. Bittová: Omaně
K. Bitto: Halgato / Czardas
I. Bittová: Lomir, Nezabudka
Leoš Janáček: Fuč větříčku,  Moravian folk poetry in songs (selection P. Fischer), Ide Kračuň, ide, Čekám tě

Iva Bittová / violin, voice
Jakub Jedlinský / accordion
Pavel Fischer / violin
Choir Babačka

Programme:

Leoš Janáček: Moravská lidová poezie v písních
Tužba, Stálosť, Lavečka, Zdálo se mi, zdálo, Kvítí milodějné, Fuč větříčku, Koníčky milého

Iva Bittová: Vimt, Jeden překrásný stromeček / Ujížděli vápeníci

Pavel Fischer, Jakub Jedlinský: Freylech

Iva Bittová: Felabu mange, Loli ruza, La khere bala

Pavel Fischer, Jakub Jedlinský: Janošek, Bešla e čhaj

Pavel Fischer: Svatběnka

Pavel Fischer, Jakub Jedlinský: Keby ma mamko – Karpatská

Iva Bittová: Mene Majka jednu ima – Jakub Jedlinský: Račenica

Pavel Fischer, Jakub Jedlinský: Co sa stalo v Radošovcách

Iva Bittová: Huljet / Dem millers trem / Lomir

Iva Bittová: Počůvaj, Ľuľaj – Koloman Bitto: Halgato, čardáš

Iva Bittová: O postaris avel

Jan Martiník / bass
David Mareček / piano

Programme:
Bedřich Smetana
Evening Songs

Antonín Dvořák
Evening Songs Op. 3 (selection)

Antonín Dvořák
Biblical Songs Op. 99

Aliaksandr Yasinski / accordion

The concert of the National Heritage Institute

A selection from Yasinski’s own compositions and arrangements of compositions by Bedřich Smetana, Antonín Dvořák, Leoš Janáček and Bohuslav Martinů.

Miroslav Sekera / piano

Programme:
Bedřich Smetana
Bagatelles and Impromptus
Macbeth and the Witches

Franz Liszt / Richard Wagner
Liebestod from the opera Tristan and Isolde

Franz Liszt / Giuseppe Verdi
The Concert Paraphrase of Rigoletto

Oldřich F. Korte
Sonata for Piano

Markéta Klaudová / soprano 

Collegium Colloredo
Jana Chytilová Anýžová / violin
Petra Čadová Machková / cello
Karel Fleischlinger / lute
Barbara Maria Willi / harpsichord and introduction
Tomáš Netopil / artistic leader, violin

Concert of the Governor of the South Moravian Region

Programme:
Marco Uccellini
La Bergamasca (Sonate, arie et correnti, op. 3)

Georg Friedrich Händel
Aria of Cleopatra „Piangerò la sorte mia“ from the opera Giulio Cesare

Georg Muffat
Sonata in D major

Georg Friedrich Händel
Aria of Dorinda „Amore è qual vento“ from the opera Orlando

Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber
Passacaglia

Jean-François Dandrieu
Sonata in G minor No. 3, Op. 1

Michel Pignolet de Montéclair
cantata Le Retour da la Paix

Epoque Quartet
David Pokorný, Vladimír Klánský / violins
Alexej Aslamas / viola
Vit Petrášek / cello

Programme:

Jan Kučera
Zrození / The Birth

Alexej Aslamas
LIDOVQUE, Suite for String Quartet (2024)
Andulko šafářová
Ej, lásko, lásko
Černé oči, jděte spát
Ach, synku, synku
Vyletěla holubička

Dick Dale
Misirlou

Vlastimil Hála
Four murders are enough, darling

Astor Piazzolla
Adios Nonino & Libertango

Vladimir Cosma
The Big Blonde with the Black Shoe

Gaelic Storm
Irish Party in Third Class

The concert is part of the celebration of the 60th anniversary of Kuřim becoming a town.

Czech Ensemble Baroque
Tomáš Netopil / conductor

in the title role Zuzana Stivínová / recitation

Programme:
František Xaver Richter
Symphony in G minor, Op. 29

Jiří Antonín Benda
Medea
Melodrama for orchestra and recitation

The concert takes place in cooperation with the concert cycle “Bacha na Mozarta!”

Duo Ardašev

Renata Lichnovská and Igor Ardašev / piano four hands

Programme:
Bedřich Smetana
My Homeland (arr. for piano four hands)

Petr Popelka / double bass

Zemlinsky Quartet
František Souček, Petr Střížek / violin
Petr Holman / viola
Vladimír Fortin / cello

Programme:
Antonín Dvořák
String Quintet No. 2 in G minor, Op. 77

Bedřich Smetana
“Skočná” Dance from the opera The Bartered Bride (arr. for String Quartet and Double bass)

Franz Liszt
Angelus! from the Piano cycle Years of Pilgrimage III S. 163 (arr. for the String Quartet and Double bass)

Petr Nouzovský / cello
Martin Sadílek / harp
Martin Kasík / piano

Programme:
Bedřich Smetana
Z domoviny / From my Homeland  for violin and piano (arr. for cello by A. Březina)

Leoš Janáček
Pohádka / Fairy Tale for cello and piano

Bohuslav Martinů
Variation on a Slovak Folk Song H 378

Václav Trojan
Císařův slavík / The Emperor’s Nightingale

Marek Kopelent
Cantus rogans for cello solo

Pavel Novák Zemek
Variation on the „Incantation“ by B. Martinů for cello, piano and harp

Bohuslav Martinů
Sonata No. 3 for cello and piano H 340

Eben Trio
Roman Patočka / violin
Jiří Bárta / cello
Terezie Fialová / piano

Programme:
Josef Suk
Elegie Op. 23 (1902, arr. for piano trio)

Aleš Březina
Kawasaki´s Rose (suite)

Leoš Janáček
Sonata for violin and piano (arr. for cello and piano by J. Bárta)

Petr Eben
Piano Trio

Jiří Rožeň / piano
Pavel Voráček / piano
Victoria Khoroshunova / soprano

Programme:

Bedřich Smetana
Richard III Op. 11 (arr. by Josef Klička)

Gustav Mahler
Symphony No. 5, IV Adagietto (arr. for piano four hands by Otto Singer)

Gustav Mahler
Symphony No. 4, IV “Das himmlische Leben” (arr. for voice and piano four hands by
J. V. Wöss)

Antonín Dvořák
The Water Golblin Op. 107 (arr. for piano four hands by Vilém Zemánek)

Antonín Dvořák
Rusalka Op. 114, aria “Song to the Moon” (arr. for piano four hands by Martin
Wiesner)

Huelgas Ensemble
cantus: Nadia Lavoyer, Malwine Nicolaus, Hannah Ely, Tessa Roos
tenor: Paul Bentley-Angell, Loïc Paulin, Ozan Karagöz, Daniel Thomson, Tom Phillips
baritone: Hidde Kleikamp, Frederik Sjollema
basse: Tim Scott Whiteley

Paul van Nevel / artistic leader

Programme:

Jean l’Héritier
Locutus est Dominus : motet à 9

Jean Larchier
Petit cueur franc : chanson à 8

Cipriano de Rore
Calami sonum ferentes : humanistisch motet à 4

Johannes Symonis Hasprois
Ma douce amour : virelai à 3

Antoine de Févin
Lamentatio in coena Domini, primo lectio  à 4

Jean Mouton
Qui ne regrettoit le gentil Févin : chanson à 4 op de dood van Févin

Orlandus Lassus
Mais qui pourrait être celui ? : Burlesque à 4 & 6

Giaches de Wert
Vox in Rama : motet à 5

Claude Le Jeune
Cigne je suis de candeur : chanson à 3 & 5

The legendary Flemish vocal ensemble Huelgas Ensemble will perform a selection of gems from Renaissance Franco-Flemish polyphony, whose most famous composers include Cipriano de Rore, Jean Mouton, Claude De Jeune, Giaches de Wert and the famous Orlandus Lassus.
The concert, held in cooperation with the Alamire Foundation and the Flemish Representation in the Czech Republic, is a contribution to the celebration of the 30th anniversary of the opening of diplomatic relations between Flanders and the Czech Republic and at the same time a prologue to the 30th edition of our festival, which will be dedicated to early music with a special focus on the phenomenon of Flemish Renaissance polyphony.

The concert is organised by the IMF Concentus Moraviae and the Prague Symphony Orchestra FOK.

Anna Paulová / clarinet
Martin Kasík / piano

Programme:
Zdeněk Fibich
Selanka (Idyl) Op. 16 (arr. for clarinet and piano)

Leoš Janáček
Sonata for clarinet and piano (arr. by Shirley Brill)

Bohuslav Martinů
Sonatina for clarinet and piano H 356

Klement Slavický
Three Pieces for piano

Karel Husa
Three Studies for clarinet solo

Viktor Kalabis
Suite for clarinet and piano Op. 55

Suk Quartet
Daniel Matejča, Natálie Toperczerová / violins
Bohumil Bondarenko / viola
Jakub William Gráf / cello

Programme:
Bedřich Smetana
Dalibor (mix for string quartet, arr. by Josef Žemla)
String Quartet No. 2 in D minor

Josef Suk
String Quartet No. 1 Op. 11

Ceremonial final concert

Magdalena Kožená / mezzo-soprano
Kirill Gerstein / piano

Programme:
Leoš Janáček
Moravian folk poetry in songs (selection)

Hugo Wolf
Mörike-Lieder (selection)

Sergej Rachmaninov
Six Songs Op. 38

Arnold Schönberg
Brettl-Lieder