Take a trip with Vladimír Válek through the world of music …
…both geographically and in terms of style at the latest season-ticket holder’s evening at the Rudolfinum’s Dvořák Hall on Monday 11 April.
Let’s start with Germany and Richard Wagner, who drew rich inspiration from ancient mythology. The opera Lohengrin also grew out of that thematic area.
The prelude to its third act introduces the festive moment of a wedding ceremony and will certainly be familiar or at least vaguely so (thanks to its famous trombone passage).
TICKETS: Wagner / Carter / Saint-Saëns
The American composer Elliott Carter lived to the incredible age of 104. Even more incredible is that the fact that he was composing intensively until the very end.
He is not so well-known in this country, which will make his Oboe Concerto – what’s more in a doubtless splendid rendition by Vilém Veverka, an ardent promoter of contemporary music – even more of an event.
Frenchman Camille Saint-Saëns’s Third Symphony enjoys a special position not only in the composer’s oeuvre but among all symphonic pieces. It contains a demanding piano part, in places even played by four hands, and, as its Organ Symphony title suggests, includes concert organ.
Although the organ part oscillates between solo and relatively orchestral parts, it is rewarding and popular with interpreters. This time we will hear Jan Kalfus in that role.
You can enjoy the concert, helmed by the honorary principal conductor of the Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra Vladimír Válek, in a live broadcast on Czech Radio Vltava.
