A special gift for the Chief Conductor on his 80th birthday: a composition by several composers

Apr192024

The composition “Happy Birthday Maestro” was written as a gift for the 80th birthday of the Filharmonie Brno’s chief conductor Dennis Russell Davies. We chose the opening from Joseph Haydn’s Symphony No. 80 in D minor as the main theme. We approached several Czech and international composers who have collaborated with Dennis Russell Davies in recent years and invited them to compose a variation on Haydn’s theme. Laurie Anderson (USA), Benjamin Yusupov (Israel), Tigran Mansurian (Armenia), Michal Nejtek (Czech Republic), Kurt Schwertsik (Austria) and Petr Jirák (Czech Republic) accepted the challenge. The piece was recorded by Laurie Anderson (Prologue) and the Filharmonie Brno under the baton of Robert Kružík.

Special thanks to Julian Veverica, our violist and author of the video.

Video you can see here: Happy Birthday, Dennis Russell Davies (youtube.com)

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SKRÝT / ZOBRAZIT MĚSÍCE

ŘÍJEN, 2024

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St09ŘÍJ19:00EMIL VIKLICKÝ & IMOGEN RYALL: SONGSEMIL VIKLICKÝ & IMOGEN RYALL: SONGS19:00 Besední dům

Čt10ŘÍJ19:00Čt21:00"LEAVE ME ALONE ..."DVOŘÁK Slavonic Rhapsody in D major Op. 45 No. 1, Slavonic Rhapsody in G minor Op. 45 No. 2, Slavonic Rhapsody in A-flat major Op. 45 No. 3, Cello Concerto in B Minor, Op. 10419:00 - 21:00 Janáčkovo divadlo

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ANTONÍN DVOŘÁK

Slavonic Rhapsody in D major Op. 45 No. 1

Slavonic Rhapsody in G minor Op. 45 No. 2

Slavonic Rhapsody in A-flat major Op. 45 No. 3

Cello Concerto in B Minor, Op. 104

Laura van der Heijden violoncello

Filharmonie Brno

conductor Leoš Svárovský

When Antonín Dvořák (1841–1904) was composing one of his greatest and best known works, the Cello Concerto in B minor, he heard about the severe illness that afflicted the love of his youth and later his sister-in-law Josefina, the wife of Count Kounic. The composer responded by quoting one of Josefina’s favourite songs of his, ‘Leave Me Alone’ (from Four Songs, Op. 82), in the second movement. Following her death Dvořák decided to alter the concerto’s finale, quoting this theme once more and attaching one of his most moving musical farewells.

The Slavonic Rhapsodies (1878) are a loose triptych of contrasting pieces (not linked together by overarching ideas): an idyllic mood prevails in the first, the second is dramatic, the third joyfully exuberant. The composer premièred the first two himself with the Provisional Theatre orchestra in Prague in November 1878; the third was taken up a year later by Wilhelm Taubert and the Königliche Kapelle in Berlin. Even today, the Slavonic Rhapsodies are rarely presented together in a concert programme; indeed, the performance of any of them is lamentably rare.

The concert can be purchased as a part of a full subscription at the Ticket office of Filharmonie Brno on Besední Street and online from 27 May 2024.
The concert will be sold separately from 17 June 2024.

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Rooseveltova 31/7, 602 00 Brno

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Pá11ŘÍJ19:00Pá21:00“LEAVE ME ALONE…”DVOŘÁK Slavonic Rhapsody in D major Op. 45 No. 1, Slavonic Rhapsody in G minor Op. 45 No. 2, Slavonic Rhapsody in A-flat major Op. 45 No. 3, Cello Concerto in B Minor, Op. 10419:00 - 21:00 Janáčkovo divadlo

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ANTONÍN DVOŘÁK

Slavonic Rhapsody in D major Op. 45 No. 1

Slavonic Rhapsody in G minor Op. 45 No. 2

Slavonic Rhapsody in A-flat major Op. 45 No. 3

Cello Concerto in B Minor, Op. 104

Laura van der Heijden violoncello

Filharmonie Brno

conductor Leoš Svárovský

The concert can be purchased as a part of a full subscription at the Ticket office of Filharmonie Brno on Besední Street and online from 27 May 2024.
The concert will be sold separately from 17 June 2024.

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Rooseveltova 31/7, 602 00 Brno

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Ne13ŘÍJ10:20Ne22:30NEVER HEARD, NEVER HEARD AGAIN / EXHIBITION OF NEW MUSIC - Composed Opening Day of the FestivalNEVER HEARD, NEVER HEARD AGAIN / EXHIBITION OF NEW MUSIC - Composed Opening Day of the Festival
3x "My Country"
SMETANA
SMETANA / KOFROŇ, PIAČEK, ŠTĚDROŇ, ZEMEK-NOVÁK, TÓTH, FORRÓ
MIRVIS, GRUSKA, ŽELEZNÝ, BEAVEN, VÍTKOVÁ, DVOŘÁKŮ 10:20 - 22:30

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Composed opening day including exhibition and workshops
10:30 My Country – the most famous conception of Smetana’s cycle
SMETANA

15:00 My Country – in a special arrangement by a collective of composers
SMETANA / KOFROŇ, PIAČEK, ŠTĚDROŇ, ZEMEK-NOVÁK, TÓTH, FORRÓ

20:00 Contemporary interpretation of the cycle My Country – world premiere
Field recordings of Smetana’s descriptions of his compositions.
MIRVALD, ŽELEZNÝ, VÍTKOVÁ, FERENC, VTÍPIL, students of FF MU

BCO – Brno Contemporary Orchestra
conductor Pavel Šnajdr

of Smetana’s loss of hearing. As they say, “We bear no responsibility for birth or death, but the fact that we can still function normally when we have gone deaf is worth the greatest celebration.” They continue: “Apparently, we live in a time when notated music is being radically transformed, and may become obsolete. The written score, once the sole means of reproducing music, has been reduced to a set of guidelines for its various realisations and today is only one of many tools in contemporary music. Music is not like literature – it is more abstract – and yet it provides a testimony about the world in a medium other than language. In Smetana’s time, the score followed a strict design; the performer knew how each note should sound, how the work’s entire concept ought to be realised. The score was a kind of mnemonic device helping to achieve the sound of the era. Smetana was a novel figure: he earned his living in Sweden and then threw himself into creating something as marginal as Czech music. He used everything that was available, like Rettigová and Srbová composing in their kitchens, and it is proof of his genius that this mixture of Mozart, Strauss, brass-band music, Liszt, polkas and unverified myths still works to this day. It was thanks to this that he was able to compose after going deaf. He knew what he wanted, and did not have to compromise for anything or anyone. He had experience of auditory hallucinations, then went deaf, first in one ear and later in the other, and yet the idea never occurred to him that he should stop composing. With Smetana’s legacy living on for centuries to come, it would be a pity to limit his music to a written score, as by engaging with it creatively we can enter into surreal, unreal, nonsensical, action-oriented, creative, interactive or virtual sound fantasies.” The project entitled Never heard, yet unheard-of recalls that “vlast” or homeland which Smetana never heard. Over a single day, it will be performed in three distinct ways – from traditional to purely contemporary – in separate concerts.

Viktor Pantůček

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The concert can be purchased as a part of a full subscription at the Ticket office of Filharmonie Brno on Besední Street and online from 27 May 2024.
The concert will be sold separately from 17 June 2024.

The concert can be purchased as a part of a full subscription at the Ticket office of Filharmonie Brno on Besední Street and online from 27 May 2024.
The concert will be sold separately from 17 June 2024.