Ivan Ženatý and Ondrej Lenárd, Rudolfinum, 9.2.
A programme of works by Slavic composers is prepared for the sixth concert in the “R” series. The main performer will be the PRSO’s permanent soloist, who has since 2012 been professor of violin at the prestigious Cleveland Institute of Music.
The evening will begin with Dvořák’s symphonic poem based on the Erben ballad The Golden Spinning Wheel. Ivan Ženatý will perform Sergei Prokofiev’s Concerto for Violin and Orchestra no. 1 in D major. (You will find more on the violinist’s relationship to the piece, as well as on his life at present, in the INTERVIEWS, REVIEWS section).
Tchaikovsky’s Fifth Symphony in E minor will provide the finale; despite the doubts of its writer, it ranks among the “hits” of symphonic composition, thanks to the strength of its ideas and its undoubted artistic mastery.
