Special Concerts
The season begins with Opening concerts conducted by Chief Conductor Semyon Bychkov. Pianist Seong-Jin Cho returns as soloist in Ravel’s Piano Concerto, and the orchestra continues its Tchaikovsky project with a performance of the Fifth Symphony.
The annual November Velvet Revolution Concerts will be conducted by legendary maestro Zubin Mehta, joined by soprano Lucy Crowe, mezzo-soprano Okka von der Damerau, and the Prague Philharmonic Choir for Mahler’s Symphony No. 2. The popular New Year’s and New Year’s Eve concerts will be conducted by Robert Kružík, and the season will once again conclude with the open-air concert on Hradčanské Square, dedicated to Jiří Bělohlávek.
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What's On
Maurice Ravel
Piano Concerto in G major
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Symphony No. 5 in E minor, Op. 64
Performers
Seong-Jin Cho piano
Semyon Bychkov conductor
Czech Philharmonic
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Gustav Mahler
Symphony No. 2 in C minor “Resurrection” (80')
Performers
Lucy Crowe soprano
Okka von der Damerau mezzo-soprano
Prague Philharmonic Choir
Lukáš Vasilek choirmaster
Zubin Mehta conductor
Sakari Oramo conductor
Czech Philharmonic
What's On
Dmitri Shostakovich
Festive Overture, Op. 96 (7')
Maurice Ravel
Alborada del gracioso (8')
Paul Dukas
Villanelle for French horn and orchestra (6')
Claude Debussy (arr. by André Caplet)
Clair de lune (5')
Ennio Morricone
Gabriel’s Oboe, main theme from the film The Mission (4')
Arturo Márquez
Danzón No. 2 (10')
Oskar Böhme
Tarantella “La Napolitaine” for trumpet and orchestra, Op. 25 (3'40)
Pietro Mascagni
Cavalleria rusticana, intermezzo from the opera (4')
Leonard Bernstein
Candide, overture to the operetta (5')
Performers
Barbora Trnčíková oboe
Kateřina Javůrková French horn
Walter Hofbauer trumpet
Robert Kružík conductor
Czech Philharmonic
Marek Eben host (only 1. Jan 2026)
What's On
Antonín Dvořák
Symphony No. 9 in E minor, Op. 95 – I. Adagio. Allegro molto (10')
Bedřich Smetana
The Bartered Bride, Overture (7')
Antonín Dvořák
Symphony No. 9 in E minor, Op. 95 – II. Largo (10')
Bedřich Smetana
The Moldau (Vltava), symphonic poem from the cycle My Homeland (Má vlast) (12')
Performers
Semyon Bychkov conductor
Czech Philharmonic
What's On
Alfred Newman
20th Century Fox Fanfare
Erich Wolfgang Korngold (arr. Patrick Russ)
The Sea Hawk – Suite and overture from the film The Sea Hawk
Antonín Dvořák
2nd movement – Largo, from the Symphony No. 9 in E minor, op. 95 “Z nového světa”
George Gershwin
1st movement from the Piano concerto in F major
Leonard Bernstein
Symphonic Dances from West Side Story
Performers
Marek Kozák piano
Marek Eben host
Alain Altinoglu conductor
Czech Philharmonic