Prague Spring 2024 | String Quartet with Orchestra

75 YEARS OF THE PRAGUE SPRING COMPETITION

Sylvie Bodorová: Trumpet Ceremony, Concerto for Trumpet and Orchestra (world premiere of a work commissioned by the Prague Spring)
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Variations on a Rococo Theme for cello and orchestra Op. 33
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Sinfonia concertante for Oboe, Clarinet, Bassoon, French Horn and Orchestra in E flat major KV 297b
Bohuslav Martinů: String Quartet with Orchestra, H 207

Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra
Jakub Klecker (conductor)
Gábor Boldoczki (trumpet)
Victor Julien-Laferrière (cello)
Johannes Grosso (oboe)
Anna Paulová (clarinet)
Jan Hudeček (bassoon)
Kateřina Javůrková (French horn)
Pavel Haas Quartet

In 2024 we mark the 75^th anniversary of the Prague Spring International Music Competition. Over the three quarters of a century since it was established, the competition has helped to launch the stellar career of numerous Czech and foreign musicians. Now they will be coming to Prague once more from various parts of the world in order to join forces in a special gala concert to celebrate the birthday of a contest that means so much to young musicians. They will be accompanied by the Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra, headed by renowned conductor Jakub Klecker.

The Prague Spring competition also provided a springboard for the dazzling career of the Pavel Haas Quartet, today one of the world’s best and – in the eyes of critics and audiences alike – most highly regarded string quartets. To round off the gala concert, accompanied by the Radio Orchestra, they will perform String Quartet with Orchestra, a work by Bohuslav Martinů dating from the beginning of the 1930s, in which the four-member group assumes the role of soloist, as in a Classical concerto.

More information: https://festival.cz/en/koncerty/75-let-souteze-prazske-jaro/