Experience a spectacular concert featuring famous works of classical masters in the stunning Smetana Hall! Enjoy Grieg's Holberg Suite for strings, Dvořák's Two Waltzes, and Tchaikovsky's Serenade for strings.
The venue is Smetana Hall, Prague's most beautiful concert hall, and the Municipal House's main hall.
The Municipal House in Prague was built at the place of the former Royal Court in 1912 to celebrate the Czech nation and has been one of the most significant public buildings in Prague for over a hundred years. It is a representative building which for its splendour and beautiful decorations is one of the jewels of Prague architecture. Although the building is usually described as an "Art Nouveau" edifice it is more of a blend of neo-Baroque, neo-Renaissance, western and oriental influences and Czech Art Nouveau style. This representative building is, above all, a great venue for classical music concerts and one of the prime venues of the world-famous Prague Spring Festival.
Representative Smetana Hall was the site of the independent Czechoslovak Republic declaration in 1918. Nowadays it serves predominantly as a concert hall. Beautiful Art Nouveau decorations – paintings with Slavic motifs, decorative stained glass ceiling, gilded lamps, beautiful organ – all this creates an unusually harmonic whole, which is a worthy area for implementation of the greatest treasures of Czech and world classical music.
Program
Edvard H. Grieg: Holberg Suite for strings, op. 40
I. Praeludium
II. Sarabande
III. Favorite
IV. Air
V. Rigaudon
A. Dvořák: Two Waltzes, op. 54
I. Moderato
II. Allegro
P. I. Tchaikovsky: Serenade for strings, op. 48
I. Pezzo in forma di sonatina
II. Valse
III. Elegie
IV. Finale (Tema russo)
Performed by
Prague Music Chamber Orchestra (8 - 11 members)
This ensemble comprises renowned musicians who play in leading orchestras such as the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra and the Czech Radio Symphony Orchestra. The Prague Music Chamber Orchestra excels with its unique, sophisticated sound and represents a highly-valued form of interpretative art.
Soloists
Vlastimil Kobrle, a former concertmaster in the Suk Chamber Orchestra and a soloist in the New Prague Collegium Radio Symphonists
Petr Zdvihal, a concertmaster in the Czech Radio Symphony Orchestra
Ondrej Skopovy, a former member of the Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra and the second violinist in the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, a member of the Prague Royal Orchestra, the Berg Chamber Orchestra, the Talich Chamber Orchestra, and the Prague Collegium.
Important Information
Duration: 60 minutes
Dress code: Casual
Senior citizen discount: over 65 years
Student discount: 16 - 26 years old with a valid student identification card
Children under 5 are admitted free of charge.