Programme 2020

Adam Skoumal – piano recital

Johann Sebastian Bach: Largo from the BWV 529 Sonata (arranged by Samuil Feinberg)

Karel Berman: Reminiscences – Suite for piano, solo

(Occupation, Auschwitz – death factory, [Sám–sám (Lonely Lonely)]

Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy: Songs without Words op. 4

Leoš Janáček: Piano Sonata 1.X.1905 (”From the Street”)

Josef Suk: Spring op. 22a

Vilém Veverka – oboe

Prague State Opera orchestra members:

Jana Mimrová – conductor

Pavel Haas: Study for String Instruments

Pavel Haas: Suite for Oboe and String Instruments

Hans Krása: Suite from the Brundibár (Bumble Bee) Opera

Viktor Ullmann: The Emperor of Atlantis

Gideon Klein: Partita

PhilHarmonia Octet (Vilém Veverka, Monika Fürbach Boušková – oboe, Irvin Venyš, Karel Dohnal – clarinet, Ondřej Vrabec, Přemysl Vojta – French horn, Martin Petrák, Václav Vonášek – bassoon)
Roman Janál – baritone

Gideon Klein: Divertimento for a wind instrument octet

Gustav Mahler: The Boy’s Magic Horn (arranged by Tomáš Ille)

Bente Kahan – vocals, guitar
Adam Skrzypek – double bass

„Why is the World so silent“

Jazz in a Synagogue

David Dorůžka – guitar

Robert Fischmann – flute

Martin Novák – percussion instruments

John Zorn: Netivot

Robert Fischmann: Malaqah

David Dorůžka: Shir HaMidbar

Chava Alberstein: Ikh shtey unter a bokserboym

Sutskever/Brudno: Unter Dayne Vayse Shtern

Charitonov/Harussi: Sh'chav beni

Kurt Weill: Liebeslied (Love Song)

Life with Music in Theresienstadt

A lecture by Assoc. Prof. Vojtěch Blodig, CSc., Deputy Director, Terezín Memorial, and Dr. Zuzana Peterová on the topic of the Theresienstadt ghetto during World War II, and the everyday life in those gruelling times and inhuman conditions.

Hans Krása: Brundibár (Bumble Bee)

Prague’s Children Opera

Jan Mráček – violin

Irvin Venyš – clarinet

Jiří Bárta –cello

Martin Kasík – piano

Gideon Klein: Lullaby

Johann Sebastian Bach: Cello Suite No. 5 in C minor

Olivier Messiaen: Quattuor pour la fin du temps (Quartet for the End of Time)