Mráček plays Tchaikovsky
Czech Radio Studio 1, 22 February 2021 at 20:00. Concert took place without an audience. The concert was broadcast live by ČRo Vltava. Live video streaming was available to everyone on Facebook here. A recording will be offered on 24 February starting at 20:00 by ČRo D-dur.
Jean Sibelius: Valse triste (Sad Waltz), Op. 44, No. 1
Gabriel Fauré: Pelléas et Mélisande, Op. 80
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 35
Robert Jindra – conductor
Jan Mráček – violin
Conductor Robert Jindra kicked off the programme broadcast from Studio 1 in Vinohrady with Jean Sibelius's famed Valse triste. This barely sixty-minute waltz originally served as the score to a theatre play, but subsequently it became one of the Finnish author's most popular concert works. The evening's second composition is also associated with the theatre. It is Gabriel Fauré's suite from the incidental music to the play Pelléas et Mélisande. The work by Belgian symbolist poet and playwright Maurice Maeterlinck, who won the Nobel Prize in Literature, inspired a number of excellent authors – aside from Fauré, also Claude Debussy, who wrote his break-out opera under the same name, or Arnold Schönberg, who produced a great symphonic poem.
The evening's soloist was Jan Mráček. The youngest laureate of the Prague Spring International Music Competition and winner of the prestigious International Fritz Kreisler Competition in Vienna became the concertmaster of the Czech Philharmonic at the invitation of Jiří Bělohlávek. In 2011 he was also the youngest soloist to ever perform with the Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra. Since then he has worked with the orchestra. This time they will join forces to present the Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in D major, a virtuosic work full of gorgeous melodies by the Russian classic Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.
Due to emergency measures, the concert entitled Pictures and Verse in Russian Music cannot be held on the planned date. Thus we have prepared a no less attractive replacement programme for you, which you can enjoy thanks to a live broadcast on ČRo Vltava starting at 20.00, or live stream here.
