Dvořák’s Serenades
The Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra has prepared two exquisite pieces from the legacy of Antonín Dvořák for listeners attending the third concert in the series “The PRSO lives here” on Tuesday 24 January.
The orchestra’s woodwind players, led by oboist Zdeněk Rys, are set to dazzle in the Serenade for Wind Instruments, Cello and Double Bass, which the composer was inspired to write by a concert of the Vienna Philharmonic and its rendition of Mozart’s Serenade for Winds in B-flat major. While Dvořák’s music may to a certain degree be in classicist focus, it is inherently all the same Czech in character. It has enchanted many, including Johannes Brahms.
It will certainly be interesting to hear how the musicians have prepared (without a conductor!) to perform the compositions, whether they have discovered some especially inspirational recordings, and to what extent they have drawn on the new notation brought out by music publishers Bärenreiter. We will conduct short interviews with the company’s editor in chief and programme manager, Eva Velická, and the PRSO’s dramaturge, Josef Třeštík.
It’s not so hard to guess that the evening’s second piece will be the Serenade for Strings in E major. The concertmaster Vlastimil Kobrle has invited another 18 musicians to take part in the performance. How much have the rehearsals been enlivened by his past involvement in the Suk Chamber Orchestra and close cooperation with Josef Suk, a master violinist from the Dvořák clan?
That question and more will be posed by comperes Jitka Novotná and Vasil Fridrich. We begin at 19:30 at Studio 1 – and will be live on the station Vltava.
