Early music specialist Giovanni Antonini has prepared a programme which pairs arias by Haydn, Mozart and Mysliveček – sung by Magdalena Kožena – and Beethoven’s “Pastoral” Symphony. Chief Conductor Semyon Bychkov goes further back in time with early Baroque music from Venice composed by Giovanni Gabrieli followed by Mozart with the Labèque sisters and Schubert’s Second Symphony. Lukáš Vasilek of the Prague Philharmonic Choir makes his Czech Philharmonic conducting debut with Arthur Honegger’s imposing oratorio Joan of Arc at the Stake, written for narrators, solo voices, choirs and orchestra. French actress Audrey Bonnet takes up the title role. Finally, audiences can look forward to Jakub Hrůša conducting large-scale performance forces in Vladimír Sommer’s Vocal Symphony written in the 1950s. The same programme sees the world premiere of Pavel Zemek Novák’s Canto and Grieg’s Piano Concerto with Leif Ove Andsnes.
C1 — Czech Philharmonic • Giovanni Antonini
Dvořák Hall
What's on
Josef Mysliveček
L’Olimpiade, overture to the opera (10')
“Che non mi disse un dì!”, aria from Act II of the opera L’Olimpiade (3' 30)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
“Mi tradì quell’alma ingrata”, aria from Act II of the opera Don Giovanni (4')
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Idomeneo, overture to the opera (5')
“Padre, germani, addio!”, aria from Act I of the opera Idomeneo (5')
Joseph Haydn
Scena di Berenice, concert aria, Hob XXIVa:10 (13')
— Intermission —
Ludwig van Beethoven
Symphony No. 6 in F major, Op. 68 “Pastoral” (39')
Performers
Magdalena Kožená mezzosoprano
Giovanni Antonini conductor
Czech Philharmonic
