Programme - 3rd Edition of the Festival
Saturday, June 5, Corpus Christi Chapel 9.00 p.m. (at candlelight)
Preludium (Ravel - Schulhoff - Handel / Halvorsen)
- Erwin Schulhoff: Duo for Violin and Cello
- Maurice Ravel: Sonata for Violin and Cello
- Frideric Handel-Johan Halvorsen: Passacaglia
- Chloë Hanslip (UK) - violin, Jiří Bárta - cello
Two large-scale duets by two great 20th-century composers, plus a virtuoso Passacaglia. Here´s the third Festival prelude, in candlelight and with the peerless atmosphere of the Corpus Christi Chapel.
Sunday, June 6, Church of St. John Nepomucene 7.30 p.m.
Opening Concert (Dvořák - Čajkovskij)
- Antonín Dvořák: Piano Quartet in D major, Op. 23
- Chloë Hanslip (UK) - violin, Jakub Fišer - violin, Jiří Bárta – cello,
Konstantin Lifschitz (D) - piano
- Chloë Hanslip (UK) - violin, Jakub Fišer - violin, Jiří Bárta – cello,
- Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Piano Trio in A minor, Op. 50
- Konstantin Lifschitz (D) - piano, Chloë Hanslip (UK) - violin, Jiří Bárta – cello
Dvořák and Tchaikovsky revisited, after last year´s successful evening, a fresh encounter with two composers each of whom made a decisive contribution to asserting his national music on the international scene.
Monday, June 7, Corpus Christi Chapel 8.30 p.m.
Goldberg Variations (Bach)
- Johann Sebastian Bach: The Goldberg Variations arranged for string trio by Dmitri Sitkovetsky
- Roman Patočka – violin, Jakub Fišer - violin, Jiří Bárta - cello
The Goldberg Variations by Johann Sebastian Bach presented here in Dmitry Sitkovetsky´s oft-performed transcription for violin, viola and cello. The phenomenal aria with thirty variations, in an acoustic dimension conjured up by stringed instruments.
Tuesday, June 8, Church of St. John Nepomucene 7.30 p.m.
The Kreutzer Sonata (Beethoven - Janáček - Tolstoj)
- Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy: The Kreutzer Sonata
- Ludwig van Beethoven:
Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 9 in A major, Op. 47
"The Kreutzer Sonata"- Chloë Hanslip (UK) - violin, Konstantin Lifschitz (D) - piano
- Leoš Janáček: String Quartet No. 1 inspired by Tolstoy's "The Kreutzer Sonata"
- Roman Patočka – violin, Jakub Fišer – violin, Karel Untermüller – viola, Jiří Bárta – cello
“Unplayable,” was the judgment meted out on Beethoven´s sonata by an annoyed Rodolphe Kreutzer, while for their part, Russian imperial censors banned Tolstoy´s story straightaway. Here is a night of Janáček inspired by Tolstoy; and Tolstoy inspired by Beethoven; love and passion serving as a fount of inspiration for three phenomenal artistic messages.
Wednesday, June 9, Cathedral of the Assumption of the Virgin 7.30 p.m.
Mendelssohn - Schubert
- Felix Mendelssohn: String Quintet No. 2 in B flat major, Op. 87
- Roman Patočka – violin, Chloë Hanslip (UK) - violin, Karel Unterműller - viola,
Jakub Fišer – viola, Jiří Bárta - cello
- Roman Patočka – violin, Chloë Hanslip (UK) - violin, Karel Unterműller - viola,
- Franz Schubert: Octet in F major D 803, Op. Post. 166 for clarinet, basoon, French Horn,
2 violins, viola, cello and double-bass,- Lída Peterková – clarinet, Václav Vonášek - bassoon, Radek Baborák – French horn,
Chloë Hanslip (UK) - violin, Jakub Fišer – violin, Karel Unterműller - viola,
Jiří Bárta - cello, Alberto Bocini (IT) - double-bass
- Lída Peterková – clarinet, Václav Vonášek - bassoon, Radek Baborák – French horn,
Mendelssohn was the first to conduct Schubert´s orchestral work, at a time when the latter was still known only as a composer of lieder. Tonight, the platform will be taken by music from both composers of some of the finest German early-Romantic chamber music.
Thursday, June 10, Church of St. John Nepomucene 7.30 p.m.
"Chopin 2010"
- Fréderic François Chopin:
Sonata for Cello and Piano in G minor, Op. 65- Jiří Bárta – cello, Konstantin Lifschitz (D) – piano
- Frédéric François Chopin:
Concerto for Piano in E minor, Op. 11 (string quartet version)
Konstantin Lifschitz (D) – piano, Roman Patočka – violin, Irena Herajnová – violin,
Karel Unterműller - viola, Jiří Bárta – cello, Alberto Bocini (IT) - double-bass
Chopin´s Romanticism is exceptionally timeless. It takes root in the Classical legacies of Beethoven, Haydn and Mozart, in terms of style being firmly anchored in the 19th century, yet at the same time, by the composer´s employment of intricate harmonies and dissonances opening up 20th-century horizons. The bicentenary of the phenomenal Polish composer will be marked here by two works, a rarely performed cello sonata, and the much loved Piano Concerto No. 1
Friday, June 11, Corpus Christi Chapel 8.30 p.m.
Reflexe 2010
- Camille Saint-Säens: Le Cygne for Cello and Harp
- Jiří Bárta - cello, Jana Boušková - harp
- Arvo Pärt: Fratres
- Jiří Bárta - cello, Jana Boušková - harp
- Miroslav Srnka: Simple Space for Cello and Harp
- Jiří Bárta - cello, Jana Boušková - harp
- Jiří Hájek: “Sundial” for Clarinet and String Quartet
- Ludmila Peterková - clarinet, Jakub Fišer - violin, Irena Herajnová – violin, Karel Untermüller – viola, Jiří Bárta – cello
- Bernard Andres: Chants d'arriere-saison for French Horn and Harp
- Radek Baborák - French horn, Jana Boušková - harp
- Luboš Fišer: Sonata for Solo Cello
- Jiří Bárta - cello
- Gavin Bryars: After the Requiem for Electric Guitar, Two Violas and Double-bass
- Claude Debussy: Ballade for Horn and Harp
- Radek Baborák - French horn, Jana Boušková - harp
- Jiří Bárta – cello, Jakub Fišer – viola, Karel Untermüller – viola, Alberto Bocini – double-bass
- Jiří Bárta – cello, concept, Bořek Šípek - sets and art design, Radek Baborák – French horn, Ludmila Peterková - clarinet, Jana Boušková - harp, Irena Herajnová – violin,
Karel Unterműller – viola, Jakub Fišer – violin, viola, Alberto Bocini (IT) – double-bass
Reflection: through narrow gaps, we try and peek into the abyss.
“The highest (and the most difficult) thing in art is not, at least so I believe, to produce laughter, or for that matter to bring out tears, or even to awaken sensuality or wrath, but much rather, it should work in the same way as Nature does, that is, to induce dreaming. Certain works of sublime beauty do bear this sign, they are obvious and yet inexplicable at first sight, they are immobile as rocks, turbulent as ocean, abounding in flowers, foliage, forest-like hum, sad as the desert, blue as the sky… Through narrow gaps we try and peek into the abyss. There, at the rock bottom, is darkness, vertigo, but then, across and over it all, floating above the whole work is something peculiarly tender. It is a dream of light, a smile of the sun, and silence, silence… (Gustave Flaubert)
Saturday, June 12, Church of St. Barbara 6.00 p.m.
Finale (Mahler - Kubelík - Beethoven)
- Gustav Mahler: Adagietto for Strings and Harp from Symphony No. 5
- Roman Patočka – violin, Jakub Fišer – violin, Karel Unterműller - viola, Jiří Bárta – cello, Alberto Bocini (IT) – double-bass, Jana Boušková – harp
- Jan Kubelík: Andante Cantabile for violin, strings and harp
- Jiří Bárta – cello, Roman Patočka – violin
- Ludwig van Beethoven: Septet in E flat major, Op. 20 for violin, viola, Cello, Double-bass, Clarinet, French Horn and Bassoon
- Roman Patočka - violin, Karel Unterműller - viola, Jiří Bárta - cello, Alberto Bocini (IT) - double-bass, Ludmila Peterková - clarinet, Radek Baborák - French horn,
Václav Vonášek - basoon
- Roman Patočka - violin, Karel Unterműller - viola, Jiří Bárta - cello, Alberto Bocini (IT) - double-bass, Ludmila Peterková - clarinet, Radek Baborák - French horn,
This year the whole world is commemorating 150 years from the birth of Gustav Mahler. At the same time, events marking the birth and death anniversaries of Jan Kubelík (1880 – 1940) have so far been fairly low-profile, even in his native country. And yet, he spent his whole life spreading and promoting Czech music, and helping out Czech artists.
Here then, side by side, are Mahler´s Adagietto, a work of silver-screen fame, and Beethoven´s Septet adored by Schubert flanking the subtle Andante of Kubelík´s violin concerto, amid the splendour of St Barbara´s Cathedral.
Saturday, June 12, Basic Art School Assembly Hall 9.00 p.m.
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