On 16 October 1912, a major work of the 20th century was premiered in Berlin: the Pierrot Lunaire cycle by Austrian composer Arnold Schoenberg. We will perform it on the day exactly 110 years later and complement the concert with a cycle by Alexander Zemlinsky, a friend and great promoter of Schoenberg’s music. For this… Read More »In the Intoxicating Glow of the Moon (Troupová & Šembera & Louženský et al.)

Just a few days before the national holiday we present a concert of Czech composers on folk poetry texts and important Czech poets Jaroslav Seifert and Vítězslav Nezval. The whole concert is all the more solemn because the performance of works by all of the featured composers will commemorate their important anniversaries this year. K.… Read More »Under the Czech Sky (Troupová & Hilscherová & Janál & Stehlík & Dušek)

For this very intimate concert in December we have chosen songs and canzonettas by the important Czech composers of the Classical and early Romantic periods, Jiří Antonín Benda (300 years since his birth) and Jan Ladislav Dusík (210 years since his death). The concert will be complemented by Canzonettas by Franz Joseph Haydn, whose birth… Read More »Love’s Pleasure and Sorrow (Troupová & Matějová)