Dvořák's Requiem performed by PRSO
Illustrious vocal soloists from Slovakia will enhance an upcoming performance of Antonín Dvořák’s Requiem.
Eva Hornyaková, Terézia Kružliaková, Peter Berger and Štefan Kocán will join forces with the Prague Philharmonic Choir led by Lukáš Vasilek, the Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra and its principal conductor Ondrej Lenárd.
His professional and personal maturity coupled with his humility and respect for Dvořák’s legacy guarantee an extraordinary evening.
If you are not present in person at the Rudolfinum’s Dvořák Hall, tune in to a live broadcast on Czech Radio Vltava from 19:30 on Monday 22 February.
Dvořák composed the Requiem at the turn of the 1880s and 1890s, at a time when he had already enjoyed a number of successes. We do not know what inspired his intellectually deepest work.
Perhaps as his 50th birthday approached he decided to look back and address in a fundamental manner all he had achieved as a composer and a man. A testimony to his relationship to God, the Requiem also sees him attempt to answer the most basic questions regarding the meaning of human existence. Hope, fear of death, pain at the loss of loved ones, the purity of faith and spirituality are all expressed within it.
The vast piece is permeated by a four-tone musical idea, a compelling motif that we register from the outset. It is as if Dvořák’s imagination knows no bounds; though the motif is heard almost 200 times in countless variations, it never creates a monotonous impression.
The first-rate interpreters the PRSO have invited as collaborators will undoubtedly deliver an extremely high-quality rendition of this musical treasure.
