NEW YEAR'S CONCERT

The Brno Philharmonic was established as the Brno State Philharmonic on January 1, 1956, and since then it has been holding its New Year's concerts regularly, symbolically not only welcoming the arrival of the new year. The unifying dramaturgical line this time will be Europe as a space for mutual inspiration, which is a topic that we feel is particularly important these days.
All the compositions are united by the fact that their authors were inspired in other European countries than the ones they came from. The Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky drew inspiration for his Italian capriccio while in Rome; Bedřich Smetana wrote Shakespeare's symphonic poem Richard III. in Sweden; the English composer Richard Addinsell composed the Warsaw Concerto for the film Dangerous Moonlight, about the Polish defense against a fascist invasion; the Hungarian-Austrian composer György Ligeti (whose 100th anniversary of his birth the musical world will commemorate in 2023) was inspired by Romanian folklore in his early Romanian concerto; finally, Frenchman Maurice Ravel did not hide his admiration for Spain, which he most famously declared in his Bolero.

PETR ILYCH TCHAIKOVSKY Italian capriccio op. 45
BEDŘICH SMETANA Richard III., symphonic poem op. 11
RICHARD ADDINSELL Warsaw Concerto for Piano and Orchestra
GYÖRGY LIGETI Concert Românesc (Romanian Concert)
MAURICE RAVEL Bolero

Matouš Zukal played the piano
Brno Philharmonic
conductor Robert Kružík