Concerts in the Rudolfinum
The upcoming season offers both a taste of our musical homeland and the scent of distant lands.
A major highlight of the season will be Bedřich Smetana's Má vlast, which Music Director and Chief Conductor Emmanuel Villaume will conduct for the first time during his now ten-year tenure at the helm of the Prague Philharmonia. Other Czech music featured includes Antonín Dvořák's exquisite Serenade for Wind Instruments, Cello and Double Bass and Pavel Vranický's elemental Symphony in D minor – "La Tempesta" ('The Storm'). La Tempesta follows on from the previous concert in this series, where a storm rages in the third movement of Ludwig van Beethoven's “Pastoral” Symphony. Our performance will even include live wind and lightning effects!
Providing contrast to the homeland theme are echoes of exoticism in the music of Camille Saint-Saëns (whose Piano Concerto No. 5, nicknamed 'Egyptian', was composed in that very country), W. A. Mozart (whose operas The Magic Flute and The Abduction from the Seraglio carry hints not only of Egypt but also Turkey), and J. Haydn (whose Symphony No. 63 bears the subtitle 'La Roxelane' after the influential 16th-century Slavic wife of an Ottoman sultan).
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