Japanese tour 2015
On 17 June the Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra will set off on its 11th Japanese tour; coincidentally it will include 11 performances, in such cities as Osaka (Symphony Hall), Sapporo (Concert Hall Kitara),Tokyo (Suntory Hall), Nagoya (Aichi Arts Center Concert Hall) and Fukuoka (Acros Fukuoka Symphony Hall). The programme will include the now traditional Smetana’s My Country (resp. a selection from the cycle), Dvořák’s Eighth and Ninth (New World) Symphonies and Beethoven’s Seventh. Chopin’s First Piano Concerto will also be performed, as will Rachmaninoff’s Second Piano Concerto, with soloists from Japan (Shinya Kiyozuka, Fujiko Hemming) and the US (Sean Kennard). Orchestra chief Ondrej Lenárd will conduct. The PRSO will travel home on 6 July.
Tour schedule:
20. 6: Yamaguchi
21. 6: Osaka
23. 6: Sapporo
24. 6: Aomori
25. 6: Morioka
27. 6: Tokyo
30. 6: Kanazawa
1. 7: Nagoya
3. 7: Wakayama
4. 7: Fukuoka
5. 7: Kagoshima
Programme:
Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony no. 7 in A major, op. 92
Antonín Dvořák: Symphony no. 8 in G major, op. 88
Antonín Dvořák: Symphony no. 9 in E minor, op. 95
Frederic Chopin: Concerto for Piano and Orchestra no. 1 in E minor, op. 11
Sergei Rachmaninoff: Concerto for Piano and Orchestra no. 2 in C minor, op. 18
Bedřich Smetana: My Country
Soloists:
Shinya Kiyozuka, Fujiko Hemming, Sean Kennard – piano
Conductor:
Ondrej Lenárd
