Name: A1 Suk. Dvořák
Start: 2023-09-06T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2023-09-06T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Rudolfinum

Organization

Conductor

Emmanuel Villaume

Instrumentalist

Cellist

Jan Vogler

Cello

Orchestra

PKF Prague Philharmonia

A1 Suk. Dvořák

Prague

Czech Republic

Rudolfinum

Public

Private

Fantastické Scherzo, Op.25

American Suite in A Major, op. 98b

Cello Concerto in B Minor, op.104

Approved

Do své jubilejní 30. sezony vstoupí PKF — Prague Philharmonia tím, co je jí nejvlastnější: hudbou českých autorů. Jen těžko bychom v dějinách české hudby hledali skladatele, již si byli tak blízcí jako Josef Suk a Antonín Dvořák.

Suk byl Dvořákův žák, a zejména v jeho rané tvorbě je vliv učitele jasně patrný. Sympatie profesní se přitom brzy protavily i do osobní roviny — Suk si navíc nerozuměl jen s Dvořákem, ale i s jeho dcerou Otilií, s níž se v roce 1898 oženil.

Josef Suk samozřejmě nebyl jediným autorem, jehož Dvořák ovlivnil. Do vývoje české hudby Dvořák vstoupil celou řadou svých děl, jeden ze svých tvůrčích vrcholů přitom prožil během pobytu v USA. Zde vzniknul i jeho Koncert pro violoncello h moll — dílo, jež se navzdory slavnému komentáři autora, že violoncello „nahoře kvičí a dole bručí“ stalo stěžejním kusem literatury pro tento nástroj. Koncert, jenž oplývá charakteristickou Dvořákovou melodikou, napsal skladatel na samém konci svého amerického pobytu.

V tu samou dobu vznikla i Suita A dur „Americká“, v níž se Dvořák s „novým světem“ loučí i postupy odvozenými z hudby této země.

Sólistou večera bude milovník Dvořákovy hudby, cellista Jan Vogler, který v loňském roce natočil oceňované album s Dvořákovými komorními skladbami.

čeština

The PKF — Prague Philharmonia will enter its 30th anniversary season with what is intrinsically deeply rooted in it: music by Czech composers. In the history of Czech music, it would be hard to find composers as close to each other as Josef Suk and Antonín Dvořák. Suk was a pupil of Dvořák, and especially in his early works the influence of his teacher is clearly noticeable. Their professional connections soon became very personal — Suk not only got on with Dvořák, but also with his daughter Otilie, whom he married in 1898.

Of course, Josef Suk was not the only composer influenced by Dvořák. Dvořák participated in the development of Czech music with a large number of his own works, and one of his creative peaks came during his stay in the USA.

There he wrote his Cello Concerto in B minor, a work which, despite Dvořák’s famous complaint that the cello “whinges up above, and grumbles down below”, has become a seminal piece of literature for this instrument. 

The concerto, which abounds with Dvořák’s characteristic melodic invention, was written at the very end of his American sojourn.

At the same time, he created the “American” Suite in A major, in which he bids farewell to the “New World” using techniques derived from the music of that country.

The soloist of the evening will be the cellist Jan Vogler, a great lover of the music of Dvořák, who last year recorded an award-winning album of Dvořák’s chamber pieces.

English

A1 Suk. Dvořák by Suk, J., Dvořák, From (2023/2023), Conductor Emmanuel Villaume, Rudolfinum, Prague, Czech Republic

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