Čekų muzikos galia. LNSO, Lukáš Vondráček, Marek Prášil

Performers:
LITHUANIAN NATIONAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
(artistic director and chief conductor Modestas Pitrėnas)
Soloist LUKÁŠ VONDRÁČEK (piano, Czech Republic)
Conductor MAREK PRÁŠIL (Czech Republic)

Program:
BEDŘICH SMETANA - "Šárka" from the cycle of symphonic poems "My homeland" ("Má vlast") (for the 200th anniversary of the composer's birth)
BÉLA BARTÓK - Concerto for piano and orchestra no. 3, Sz 119, BB 127
ANTONÍN DVOŘÁK – Symphony no. 9 in E minor, From the New World, Op. 95, B. 178

The Czech music concert held at the Philharmonic several years ago aroused great interest of the audience, so the National Philharmonic, in cooperation with the Embassy of the Czech Republic, invites you to the second "Power of Czech Music". This year we celebrate the 200th anniversary of the birth of the composer Bedřich Smetana, so the concert will begin with the symphonic poem of this Czech music classic "Šárka" (1875, about the ancient Czech warrior Šárka) from the series "My Homeland". At the end of the evening - the last 9th symphony "From the New World" (1893) by Czech romanticist Antonín Dvořák. The composer created it while living in America, which at that time was often called the New World. In the USA, Dvořák not only headed the New York Conservatory, but also drew inspiration from local culture, studied Indian melodies and epics, and was interested in black songs.

Pianist Lukáš Vondráček gained worldwide recognition by becoming a laureate in many international competitions, including the Grand Prix in 2016. At the Queen Elizabeth in Brussels, Van Cliburn, San Marino, Unisa (Pretoria, South Africa) piano competitions, he appears on the stages of Hamburg Elbphilharmonie, Leipzig Gewandhaus, Wiener Konzerthaus, Amsterdam Concertgebouw, conducted by Paavo Järvi, Yannick Nézet-Séguin , Christoph Eschenbach, Gianandrea Noseda, Jakub Hrůš and others. L. Vondráček will perform Hungarian composer Béla Bartók's Third Concerto for piano and orchestra, composed during the last years of his life in New York (1945). color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">– Conductor of the National Moravian-Silesian Theater, debutant of the international music festival "Prague Spring 2022". M. Prášil cooperates with many Czech theaters and orchestras, and in recent years he appears more and more often on foreign stages: in Switzerland, the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Lithuania, Poland, South Korea and elsewhere.

The concert is organized in cooperation with the Czech Republic embassy in Vilnius

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