Messiah, The Creation, Das klagende Lied with Chen Reiss. Filharmonie Brno’s new season marked by masterpieces and the commemoration of important anniversaries

  PRESS RELEASE Brno, 17 May 2024 90, 200, 150. Three numbers marking important anniversaries have significantly shaped Filharmonie Brno’s upcoming 69th season. “The number 90 refers to the season’s most important project, Mahler’s Das klagende Lied/Song of Lamentation. We will be performing this in its original three-movement form on the day exactly ninety years…

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

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…

Má vlast for piano four hands. Dennis Russell Davies celebrates his birthday with two sold-out concerts

PRESS RELEASE 12. 4. 2024   2024 isn’t just the Year of Czech Music and the two hundredth anniversary of Bedřich Smetana’s birth, but also a year in which Dennis Russell Davies, Filharmonie Brno’s Chief Conductor will be celebrating a significant birthday. Two days after his eightieth birthday, which falls on 16 April, Davies and his…