Orchestra Academy of Filharmonie Brno is a project that allows talented young musicians – students or fresh graduates of music schools, who are selected by audition – to gain orchestral experience in a professional ensemble. In this way, the Philharmonic develops the next generation of players who might in the future become its members.During its two-year course, the Academy offers its students not just the possibility of orchestral practice, but also an opportunity to present their abilities in chamber performance, in a concert series entitled Young Blood.

Over the past seasons, the series has earned a substantial audience – music fans appreciate the youthful and engrossing performances, the varied and attractive repertoire, and, last but not least, the enchanting atmosphere of these concerts.

For this occasion, the hall of the Besední dům is intimately lit and offers an unusual seating plan, so that the audience can feel really close to the musicians – as indeed suggested by the series subtitle, Music from nearby. You won’t feel separated from the performers by a platform and there is no need for formal evening dress either.

FRANCIS POULENC

Sonata for Clarinet and Piano FP 184

Filip Pokorný clarinet

Dana Drápelová piano

HANS-ANDRÉ STAMM

Spring Dance

Michaela Durajová flute

Linda Coganová piano

SOFIA MAVROGENIDOU

Gioco su tarantella

Michaela Durajová flute

Klaudie Jurmanová flute

Linda Coganová piano

PAUL HINDEMITH

Sonata for oboe and piano

Marie Šmídová oboe

Radim Pančocha piano

KEIKO ABE

Variations on Japanese Children’s Songs

Ján Bodor marimba

DAVID R. GILLINGHAM

Stained Glass

Foyers

Cathedrals

Sun Catchers

Percussion Ensemble JAMU j.h.: Radim Večeřa, Slavomír Kvasňovský, Tibor Rusnák, Martin Švec, Ján Bodor, Anežka Nováková (j.h.), Adam Druga, David Paša (j.h.), Josef Schmied, Jakub Michalčík (j.h.), Jan Nepodal percussion, Dominik Gál piano

artistic leader Martin Opršál

conductor Aleš Kománek

The concert will take place without a break.

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ALFRED SCHNITTKE

Cello Concerto No. 1

JEAN SIBELIUS

Symphony No. 2 in D major, Op. 43

Matt Haimovitz cello

Brno Philharmonic

conductor Michael Schønwandt

• Alfred Schnittke’s First Cello Concerto of 1986, dedicated to Natalia Gutman, originally conceived as a work in three movements and completed only after a major trauma in his life – a stroke – with a slow fourth movement, whose emotion corresponds to the finale of Tchaikovsky’s Pathétique Symphony ● The best known of the seven symphonies by Jean Sibelius, the leading Finnish composer, infused with Nordic colour ● Matt Haimovitz, once a wunderkind who debuted in 1984 aged 13 with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Zubin Mehta and today is described as a “ferociously talented cellist who brings his megawatt sound and uncommon expressive gifts to a vast variety of styles” (The New York Times) ● World-famous Danish conductor Michael Schønwandt, former chief conductor of the Royal Opera in Copenhagen and the Sinfonie-Orchester Berlin

Subscription consists of two parts:

Filharmonie at Stadion (FS)

Filharmonie at Janáček Theater(JD)

Tickets for each part of the series can be purchased separately.

Cast of the orchestra here

ALFRED SCHNITTKE

Cello Concerto No. 1

JEAN SIBELIUS

Symphony No. 2 in D major, Op. 43

Matt Haimovitz cello

Brno Philharmonic

conductor Michael Schønwandt

• Alfred Schnittke’s First Cello Concerto of 1986, dedicated to Natalia Gutman, originally conceived as a work in three movements and completed only after a major trauma in his life – a stroke – with a slow fourth movement, whose emotion corresponds to the finale of Tchaikovsky’s Pathétique Symphony ● The best known of the seven symphonies by Jean Sibelius, the leading Finnish composer, infused with Nordic colour ● Matt Haimovitz, once a wunderkind who debuted in 1984 aged 13 with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Zubin Mehta and today is described as a “ferociously talented cellist who brings his megawatt sound and uncommon expressive gifts to a vast variety of styles” (The New York Times) ● World-famous Danish conductor Michael Schønwandt, former chief conductor of the Royal Opera in Copenhagen and the Sinfonie-Orchester Berlin

Subscription consists of two parts:

Filharmonie at Stadion (FS)

Filharmonie at Janáček Theater(JD)

Tickets for each part of the series can be purchased separately.

Cast of the orchestra here

We are offering Standing + Tickets

ANTONÍN REJCHA (ANTON REICHA)

Lenora, grand musical tableau for soli, chorus and orchestra after a ballad by Gottfried August Bürger

Martina Janková soprano (Lenora)

Pavla Vykopalová soprano (Mother)

Wojciech Parchem tenor (Narrator)

Jiří Brückler baritone (Vilém)

Czech Philharmonic Choir Brno

choir director Petr Fiala

Filharmonie Brno 

conductor Dennis Russell Davies

• In 2020 we celebrate the 250th birthday not just of Beethoven, but also his contemporary and friend Antonín Rejcha (1770-1836), a native of Prague, an important Czech composer and an influential teacher and theorist of his time. He worked in Vienna from 1802-1808 and in Paris until the end of his life ● His feature-long oratorio Lenora, written in Vienna in 1805-1806 after a Bürger ballad – on the same topic as Czech poet Karel Jaromír Erben’s The Wedding Shirts – though virtually unknown, is a captivating and monumental work ● Despite an intercession by Beethoven, the oratorio was at first banned by the Vienna censor due to its daring theme ● It is a musically and dramatically convincing expression of the story of the ballad: Lenora’s passion and soul-stirring sorrow, and Vilém’s victorious, destructive force

ANTONÍN REJCHA (ANTON REICHA)

Lenora, grand musical tableau for soli, chorus and orchestra after a ballad by Gottfried August Bürger

Martina Janková soprano (Lenora)

Pavla Vykopalová soprano (Mother)

Wojciech Parchem tenor (Narrator)

Jiří Brückler baritone (Vilém)

Czech Philharmonic Choir Brno

choir director Petr Fiala

Filharmonie Brno 

conductor Dennis Russell Davies

• In 2020 we celebrate the 250th birthday not just of Beethoven, but also his contemporary and friend Antonín Rejcha (1770-1836), a native of Prague, an important Czech composer and an influential teacher and theorist of his time. He worked in Vienna from 1802-1808 and in Paris until the end of his life ● His feature-long oratorio Lenora, written in Vienna in 1805-1806 after a Bürger ballad – on the same topic as Czech poet Karel Jaromír Erben’s The Wedding Shirts – though virtually unknown, is a captivating and monumental work ● Despite an intercession by Beethoven, the oratorio was at first banned by the Vienna censor due to its daring theme ● It is a musically and dramatically convincing expression of the story of the ballad: Lenora’s passion and soul-stirring sorrow, and Vilém’s victorious, destructive force

Concert is sold out, we are offering Standing + Tickets

ANTONÍN REJCHA (ANTON REICHA)

Lenora, grand musical tableau for soli, chorus and orchestra after a ballad by Gottfried August Bürger

Martina Janková soprano (Lenora)

Pavla Vykopalová soprano (Mother)

Wojciech Parchem tenor (Narrator)

Jiří Brückler baritone (Vilém)

Czech Philharmonic Choir Brno

choir director Petr Fiala

Filharmonie Brno 

conductor Dennis Russell Davies

• In 2020 we celebrate the 250th birthday not just of Beethoven, but also his contemporary and friend Antonín Rejcha (1770-1836), a native of Prague, an important Czech composer and an influential teacher and theorist of his time. He worked in Vienna from 1802-1808 and in Paris until the end of his life ● His feature-long oratorio Lenora, written in Vienna in 1805-1806 after a Bürger ballad – on the same topic as Czech poet Karel Jaromír Erben’s The Wedding Shirts – though virtually unknown, is a captivating and monumental work ● Despite an intercession by Beethoven, the oratorio was at first banned by the Vienna censor due to its daring theme ● It is a musically and dramatically convincing expression of the story of the ballad: Lenora’s passion and soul-stirring sorrow, and Vilém’s victorious, destructive force

ANTONÍN REJCHA (ANTON REICHA)

Lenora, grand musical tableau for soli, chorus and orchestra after a ballad by Gottfried August Bürger

Martina Janková soprano (Lenora)

Pavla Vykopalová soprano (Mother)

Wojciech Parchem tenor (Narrator)

Jiří Brückler baritone (Vilém)

Czech Philharmonic Choir Brno

choir director Petr Fiala

Filharmonie Brno 

conductor Dennis Russell Davies

• In 2020 we celebrate the 250th birthday not just of Beethoven, but also his contemporary and friend Antonín Rejcha (1770-1836), a native of Prague, an important Czech composer and an influential teacher and theorist of his time. He worked in Vienna from 1802-1808 and in Paris until the end of his life ● His feature-long oratorio Lenora, written in Vienna in 1805-1806 after a Bürger ballad – on the same topic as Czech poet Karel Jaromír Erben’s The Wedding Shirts – though virtually unknown, is a captivating and monumental work ● Despite an intercession by Beethoven, the oratorio was at first banned by the Vienna censor due to its daring theme ● It is a musically and dramatically convincing expression of the story of the ballad: Lenora’s passion and soul-stirring sorrow, and Vilém’s victorious, destructive force

We are offering Standing + Tickets

ANTONÍN REJCHA (ANTON REICHA)

Lenora, grand musical tableau for soli, chorus and orchestra after a ballad by Gottfried August Bürger

Martina Janková soprano (Lenora)

Pavla Vykopalová soprano (Mother)

Wojciech Parchem tenor (Narrator)

Jiří Brückler baritone (Vilém)

Czech Philharmonic Choir Brno

choir director Petr Fiala

Filharmonie Brno 

conductor Dennis Russell Davies

• In 2020 we celebrate the 250th birthday not just of Beethoven, but also his contemporary and friend Antonín Rejcha (1770-1836), a native of Prague, an important Czech composer and an influential teacher and theorist of his time. He worked in Vienna from 1802-1808 and in Paris until the end of his life ● His feature-long oratorio Lenora, written in Vienna in 1805-1806 after a Bürger ballad – on the same topic as Czech poet Karel Jaromír Erben’s The Wedding Shirts – though virtually unknown, is a captivating and monumental work ● Despite an intercession by Beethoven, the oratorio was at first banned by the Vienna censor due to its daring theme ● It is a musically and dramatically convincing expression of the story of the ballad: Lenora’s passion and soul-stirring sorrow, and Vilém’s victorious, destructive force

Chamber concert

LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN

12 Variations on a Theme from Handel’s Oratorio Judas Maccabeus, WoO 45

Sonata No. 5 in D major, Op. 102 No. 2

7 Variations on the Duet “Bei Männern, welche Liebe fühlen” from Mozart’s Magic Flute, WoO 46

Sonata No. 2 in G minor, Op. 5 No. 2

Cellists of the Brno Philharmonic:

            Pavlína Jelínková

            Rudolf Mrazík

            Michal Greco

            Lukáš Svoboda

Dennis Russell Davies piano

• We present a unique contribution to the celebrations of Ludwig van Beethoven’s (1770-1827) 250^th birthday, including a performance of Beethoven’s complete oeuvre for cello and piano, split into two concerts on a single day (in the afternoon and evening) ● Five sonatas and three sets of variations are performed by members of the cello section of the Brno Philharmonic with the chief conductor Dennis Russell Davies at the piano

Single tickets on sale on 20/5/2019 1.00 PM

through „CREATE YOUR OWN“ on 10/6/2019 1 PM