Solo for violin, trombone and French horn
As part of celebrations of its “ninetieth”, the PRSO has prepared a number of gifts for all those who feel like celebrating with it. And for itself!
One of them is a brand new season-ticket holders’ series entitled “S Concerts”, subtitled The PRSO lives here. The answer to the question of where it lives is clear: At Studio 1 in the Czech Radio building on Vinohradská, in the space where it rehearses and also makes extensive recordings.
It was recently renovated and its new form impresses not only thanks to its aesthetic conception but also due to its unusually modern, state of the art technical facilities.
It is just here that the PRSO is offering a superb experience: to attend, free of charge, concerts at which you can get to know our musicians in something of a new light – as soloists or chamber players.
The first evening in the series, on Tuesday 11 October, will give the audience a chance to catch as soloists the horn player Jana Švadlenková, trombonist Pavel Čermák and, as guest, the young violinist Pavla Tesařová. The chamber line-up will be conducted by Jan Talich while the evening will be hosted by moderator Jitka Novotná and actor Vasil Fridrich.
The programme includes three relatively little-known – or even unknown – compositions. The first, For Solo French Horn and Trombone, was written by Michael Haydn, brother of the famous Josef. He was based in Salzburg, where he was in close contact with Mozart. His exquisite music completely stands up next to the work of the elite composers of the era. You will hear the lively Violin Concerto in A minor by Josef Slavík, a Czech exponent of early Romanticism who died prematurely. And at the end of the evening you will enjoy the Symphony in F major by Antonín Rejcha; his works are mainly performed by brass quintets, though this is unjust to the rest of his work, which is absorbing and frequently revelatory.
