Foreign concerts (Wiesbaden, Merano)
The Radio Orchestra will also be appearing in concert abroad during the summer months. The programme in Wiesbaden's Kurhaus on 5 August features works by Antonín Dvořák: the overture Carnival, the New World Symphony and Piano Concerto in G minor with soloist Lukáš Vondráček. Zdeněk Mácal conducts.
At the festival in the Italian spa town of Merano, which opens this year with the Budapest Festival Orchestra headed by Iván Fischer, the Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra (SOČR) will be making its appearance on 24 August. Soloist Sophia Jaffé will perform Dvořák's Violin Concerto and, in the second half of the programme, the audience will hear Smetana's symphonic poems Vltava, Šárka and From Bohemian Fields and Groves. Vladimír Válek conducts.
We could also mention other artists performing at Merano this year, including Charles Dutoit, Martha Argerich, Jordi Savall, Ingo Metzmacher, Murray Perahia, Anne Sofie von Otter and Fazil Say, along with ensembles such as the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, London, Deutsches Symphonieorchester Berlin, the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields and Münchner Rundfunkorchester.
