The Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra with Jan Kučera at the Radio Autumn festival
11 September 2009 saw the launch of the Radio Autumn International Music Festival. The aim of the project is to present European radio orchestras and broadcast their concerts via radio stations affiliated within the European Broadcasting Union (EBU). This event constitutes a fundamental step towards endeavours to expand Czech Radio's involvement in the organisation of concerts and to strengthen relationships between individual members of the EBU on the classical music scene.
Although the organiser of the festival is Radioservis, Czech Radio's publishing house, the Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra (SOČR) might, in a way, be regarded as its host as well. For the first year of the festival, the Radio Orchestra will be performing two of the total of five evening concerts held in the Rudolfinum's Dvořák Hall.
On Saturday 19 September, the orchestra, headed by its conductor Jan Kučera, will perform Vítězslav Novák's symphonic poem Eternal Longing, Bohuslav Martinů's Piano Concerto No. 2 with soloist Pavel Kašpar, and Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 5 in E minor.
Czech Radio 3 - Vltava will broadcast the concert on Monday 21 September at 8pm.
(Visitors to the Radio Autumn festival will be able to attend another concert performed by SOČR, this time together with their Chief Conductor Vladimír Válek, at the closing concert on Wednesday 30 September. We will submit details later.)
