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Advent Concerts
The Advent Concerts of the Czech Chamber Music Society offer the perfect opportunity to ease into the festive spirit. Across four programmes—featuring, as always, members of the Czech Philharmonic—you’ll hear much more than familiar carols, though those, too, are part of the Rudolfinum’s Advent tradition.
This year’s Sunday concerts include arrangements of iconic works for eight cellos and double bass by the ensemble Virtuosi di Basso, a tribute to Vivaldi with vocalist Markéta Cukrová, and a light-hearted Mozart programme performed by the Philharmonic’s principal string players. Just days before Christmas Eve, members of the orchestra’s trombone and tuba section will offer a joyful and original holiday greeting of their own.
Koncerty řady AK
What's On
Adam Václav Michna z Otradovic*
The Czech Lute, selections
John Newton*
Amazing Grace
Leonard Bernstein*
West Side Story, selections
Gioacchino Rossini*
William Tell, overture
Vilém Blodek*
Intermezzo from the opera In the Well
Antonín Dvořák*
Symphony No. 8 in G major, Op. 88, movements II and IV
* arr. by Tomáš Ille
Performers
Virtuosi di Basso
What's On
Antonio Vivaldi
Sinfonia in B minor, RV 169 “Al sancto sepolcro”
Nisi dominus (Cum dederit), RV 607
Chamber Concerto in D major, RV 96
In furore iustissimae irae, RV 626
Chamber Concerto in F major, RV 100 “La Serenissima”
Qui sedes ad dexteram patris, aria from the Gloria D major, RV 589
Performers
Markéta Cukrová mezzo-soprano
Helena Jiříkovská, Viktor Mazáček violin
Jiří Poslední viola
Jakub Dvořák cello
Lucie Brotbek Prochásková flutes
Ondřej Šindelář bassoon
Filip Dvořák harpsichord
What's On
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Divertimento in E flat major for string trio, K 563
Christmas carols
Performers
Jan Fišer violin
Eva Krestová viola
Václav Petr cello
What's On
Jacob Handl-Gallus*
Canite tuba in Sion, advent antiphon
Claudio Monteverdi*
Adoramus te, Christe
Advent and Christmas in the Krkonoše Foothills folk songs*
Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber*
Serenada à cinque, A 877a “Der Nachtwächter”
Jakub Jan Ryba*
Dear Children, pastorale
Let the Violins Play, pastorale
Ivan Zelenka
Pseudo-Baroque Suite (world premiere)
Giulio Caccini*
Ave Maria
Georges Bizet*
Agnus Dei
Josef Vejvoda
Looking Back
That Time at Christmas melodies of the Karel Vlach Orchestra*
* arr. by Břetislav Kotrba
Performers
Czech Philharmonic Low Brass Ensemble
Robert Kozánek trombone
Lukáš Moťka trombone
Jan Perný trombone
Lukáš Besuch trombone
Karel Kučera bass trombone
Karel Malimánek tuba