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Event Details
ERICH WOLFGANG KORNGOLD Der Sturm for choir and orchestra, Einfache Lieder Op. 9 (selection)
JOSEF BOHUSLAV FOERSTER Festive Ouverture, Op. 70
GUSTAV MAHLER Das klagende Lied
Chen Reiss soprano
Stefanie Irányi alto
Attilio Glaser tenore
Michael Wagner baritone
Czech Philharmonic Choir Brno
chorus-master Petr Fiala
Filharmonie Brno
conductor Dennis Russell Davies
These concerts commemorate the 100th anniversary of Czech Radio’s Brno studio. Friday’s performance will be broadcast live on Czech Radio’s Vltava station.
Exactly 90 years ago, on 28 November 1934, Blahoslavův dům in Brno’s Nová Street (now Lidická Street) saw the world première of the original three-movement version of Gustav Mahler’s Das klagende Lied (in Czech, translated by František Kožík). The performance involved – among others – the orchestra of the Brno radio station (that is, one of the two orchestras from which Filharmonie Brno would eventually be established), and Mahler’s nephew Alfred Rosé stood on the conductor’s podium. Thanks to a live broadcast, radio audiences could enjoy the concert too.
Tonight’s performance of Das Klagende Lied commemorates the 90th anniversary of the world première of the original version in Brno and the 100th anniversary of the opening of what was then Czechoslovak Radio’s Brno studio. Mahler’s music will be heard alongside works by composers on whom the native of Kaliště near Humpolec left an indelible mark.
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.