Sunday, March 2

Jauchzet dem Herrn alle Welt, psalm 100, Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1809 - 1847)
motetto - Laudetur Jesus Christus in aeternum, Amen - Largo , Andante, Piu vivo, Bohuslav Matej Cernohorskuy (1684 -1742)
Nunc dimittis (1915), Gustav HOLST (1874 -1934)
Magnificat (1989), Arvo Pärt (1935)
Sacred Polyphonies – selection, Vytautas Miskinis (1954)

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INTERVAL
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A Concerto for Choir (1984), Alfred Schnittke (1934-1998)

Prague Chamber Choir
Originated in 1990 in the Czech Republic as a selective ensemble made up from outstanding Prague chorus-singers

Performances:

Performed at distinguished European festivals (Schleswig Holstein Music Festival, Hamburg and Stuttgart Music Festival, Ludwigsburger Festspiele, Festival van Vlaandern, Strasbourg Festival, Prague Spring, Vienna Spring Festival, Rossini Opera Festival Pesaro and Wratislavia Cantans
Several repeated tours through Germany , Austria , Italy , Spain , France , Switzerland and performed in Belgium , Luxembourg , Poland , Slovenia , Greece , Australia and Japan
Guest at the world exhibition in Seville and at opera houses in Florence , Geneva , Seville and Wexford ( Ireland )
Performed Mozart's Mass in c minor in the Salzburg summer festival 1998 under the baton of Peter Schreier and Bach's Hohe Messe at Wiener Festwochen 2000
Presented Sains-Saens' opera “Samson and Dalila” together with Placido Domingo
Gave concerts in Greece , Kroatia , Finland , Australia and Japan (with the Czech Philharmonic and Vladimir Ashkenazy)

Orchestras performed with:

Worked with many world known orchestras such as Czech Philharmonic, Prague Symphony Orchestra, Radio Symphony Orchestra Stuttgart, Bruckner Orchestra Linz, Zagreb Philharmonic, Orchestra della Toscana Firenze, Orchestra A. Toscanini Parma, NDR Hamburg and Bamberg Symphony Orchestra and with the chamber orchestras as Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra, Prague Chamber Orchestra, Virtuosi di Praga, Zurich Chamber Orchestra and others

Conductors performed with:

Giuseppe Sinopoli, Herbert Blomstedt, Václav Neumann, Zubin Mehta, Christoph Eschenbach, Gerd Albrecht, Neville Marriner, Kent Nagano, Zoltan Pesko, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Peter Schreier, Georges Pretre, Roger Norrington, Gianluigi Gelmetti, Claus Peter Flor, Gabriele Ferro, Leonard Slatkin, Tadeusz Strugala, Andras Ligeti, Manfred Honeck, and from the choirmasters we shall mention Eric Ericson, Helmut Rilling, Frieder Bernius and Romano Gandolfi
Regular collaboration with the NDR Hamburg and SDR Stuttgart (conductors John Nelson, Kent Nagano, Neville Marriner, Leonard Slatkin, Georges Pretre, Claus Peter Flor) and with WDR Köln (recordings for Orfeo with Gerd Albrecht: Dvorak's Saint Ludmilla and Vanda

Recordings

- Mahler's “Symphony No. 3”, conducted by Václav Neumann
- Mendelsohn's “Paulus”, conducted by Helmut Rilling
- Janácek's “Osud” and Dvorák's ”Armida” played by Czech Philharmonic and conducted by Gerd Albrecht
- Pergolesi's vocal works with Stuttgart chamber orchestra
Recorded several CD's of works written by A. Dvorák, L. Janácek, P. Eben, J. Suk, Bruckner, Brahms and Rachmaninov with the chief choirmaster Josef Pancík, who is also the choirmaster in Janácek's opera house in Brno

3 rd appearance at the Al Bustan Festival