PRSO to perform twice at Prague Spring
This year the Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra (PRSO) will perform twice at the Prague Spring festival, with the first appearance set for 18 May. That date is of great significance in the history of Czech (previously Czechoslovak) Radio, as the institution made its first ever broadcast on that date in 1923 from a tent in Prague’s Kbely district.
This year the PRSO’s musicians will be elsewhere, at the Rudolfinum, to perform, along with principal conductor Ondrej Lenárd and pianist Igor Ardašev, pieces by H. Berlioz, J. Ježek, B. Smetana and J. Klusák. As well as the birth of their mother institution, they will mark 150 years since the establishment of the artsists’ organisation Umělecká beseda. Czech Radio Vltava will of course broadcast the event live.
At the second concert, which takes place on 1 June at the Smetana Hall of the Municipal House, the PRSO will be conducted by Libor Pešek, whose milestone birthday will be one of the themes of the evening. The programme will include works by H. Berlioz, S. Prokofjev (Marek Eben will narrate his Peter and the Wolf) and J. Suk. The concert will also go out live on Czech Radio Vltava, while it will also be recorded by Czech Television.
