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Bethlehem Chapel
Betlehem Chapel Interior
Address: Betlémské nám. 255/4
From the Prague Congress Centre
(approximately 25 min.)
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Take Metro C - Vyšehrad stop
(direction Letňany)
Continue to Florenc
At Florenc change to Metro B
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CZECH MUSIC
Great Bohemian Composers
14. 7. 2016 at 8 PM
Bethlehem Chapel
Bedřich Smetana
Antonín Dvořák
Josef Suk
Where words fail, music speaks.
- Hans Christian Andersen
Price: 25 EUR
Welcome drink included
Tickets available at Registration desk
Piano trio
TRIO 75
Sopran
Lucie Vagenknechtová
PROGRAM
Trio 75
A.Dvořák - Trio Dumky, Op. 90
I. Lento maestoso - Allegro vivace
IV. Andante moderato - Allegreto scherzando
Sopran - Lucie Vagenknechtová
(Cor. Johanna Haniková)
B. Smetana - Mařenka’s Aria "Och, jaký žal"!
from opera The Bartered Bride
Trio 75
B. Smetana - Trio g minor, Op. 15
III. Presto
Sopran - Lucie Vagenknechtová
(Cor. Johanna Haniková)
A. Dvořák - Písně milostné “Love songs”
Trio 75
J. Suk - Elegy for piano, violin and violoncello, Op.
23
Sopran - Lucie Vagenknechtová
(Cor. Johanna Haniková)
A. Dvořák - Měsíčku na nebi hlubokém “Song to
the moon” from opera Rusalka
Trio 75
A.Dvořák - Trio Dumky, Op. 90
V. Allegro
VI. Lento maestoso
C Z E C H M U S I C - G R E AT B O H E M I A N C O M P O S E R S
T RIO 75
TRIO 75 consists of three
musicians with a number of
domestic, as well as
international performances
under their belt. All of them are
among the top Czech classical
players which reflects in their
cooperation. Trio 75, founded in
BEDŘ IC H SM ETAN A (1824 - 1884)
Smetana was a Czech composer who pioneered the
development of a musical style which became closely
identified with his country's aspirations to independent
statehood. He is thus widely regarded in his homeland as
the father of Czech music. Internationally he is best
known for his opera The Bartered Bride and for the symphonic cycle My
Homeland, which portrays the history, legends and landscape of the
composer's native land.
2004 at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague, is made up of
AN TON ÍN DVOŘ ÁK (18 41 - 1904)
Martin Fila (piano), Jiří Partyka (violin) and Jan Keller (violoncello).
Their repertoire is a selection of world-famous classical pieces, a Dvořák was the second Czech composer to achieve
worldwide recognition. His own style has been described
major part of it by Czech composers, especially Antonín Dvořák.
as the fullest recreation of a national idiom with that of the
symphonic tradition, absorbing folk influences and
LUCIE VAG EN KN E CH TOVÁ
finding effective ways of using them. In 1892, he moved
to the United States and became the director of the
S o p ra n o Lu c i e Va g e n k n e c h t o v á
National Conservatory of Music of America in New York City. Dvořák’s operas
graduated from the Conservatory of
were intended to convey Czech national spirit, as were some of his choral
Pardubice in the class of Mgr. Miloslav
works. By far the most successful of the operas is Rusalka.
Stříteský in 2012. Now she continues to
study classical singing at the Academy of
Performing Arts in Prague under Roman
JOS EF SUK (1874 - 1935)
Janál and artistically cooperates with Mgr.
Suk was a Czech composer and violinist. He studied under
Jarmila Chaloupková and Maestro Antonio Carangelem. During
Dvořák, whose daughter he married. He is considered to
her studies she won several awards in competitions. In 2015 she be one of the leading composers in Czech Modernism,
was a finalist in the International Singing Competition of Antonín with much of this influence coming from Dvořák. From
Dvořák in Karlovy Vary. She is currently performing in the J. K. Tyl 1922 until the end of his life, Suk was professor of
Theatre in Pilsen the performance Diary of One Who Disappeared
composition of the Masters School of the Prague
and in the F. X. Šalda Theatre in Liberec she plays the role of
Conservatory, having among his students B. Martinů or J. Ježek. Suk ranks
Papagena in The Magic Flute.
among the greatest Czech composers and the greatest masters of orchestral
composition.