PRSO spending November in studio
After contributing to the culmination of Czech Radio’s 90th anniversary celebrations (a concert on November 4 at the Municipal House) with a demanding, jazz-informed programme, the Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra (PRSO) is devoting November to intensive recording work.
In cooperation with baritone Martin Bárta and chief conductor Ondrej Lenárd, the PRSO will record arias from Smetana’s operas Libuše (Přemysl), The Secret (Kalina), The Devil’s Wall (Vok) and The Brandenburgers in Bohemia (Tausendmark). They will also tape Dvořák’s opera The Cunning Peasant (the Prince’s aria from the first movement) and the Forester’s closing song from Janáček’s Cunning Little Vixen.
Capitalising on intensive preparations for the gala concert referred to above, Emil Viklický’s Piano Concerto in E major with soloist Jan Simon will also be recorded. In addition, Ondrej Lenárd and the PRSO will record Richard Strauss’s symphonic poem Macbeth, while guest conductor Tomáš Brauner will helm a suite from Tchaikovsky’s ballet Swan Lake. Under the baton of the latter conductor, the orchestra will be accompanied by the PRSO’s first trumpeter Marek Zvolánek, who will take on the solo part in Jiří Pauer’s Concerto for Trumpet.
