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Advent Concerts

The Advent Concerts of the Czech Chamber Music Society offer the perfect opportunity to ease into the festive spirit. Across four programmes—featuring, as always, members of the Czech Philharmonic—you’ll hear much more than familiar carols, though those, too, are part of the Rudolfinum’s Advent tradition.

This year’s Sunday concerts include arrangements of iconic works for eight cellos and double bass by the ensemble Virtuosi di Basso, a tribute to Vivaldi with vocalist Markéta Cukrová, and a light-hearted Mozart programme performed by the Philharmonic’s principal string players. Just days before Christmas Eve, members of the orchestra’s trombone and tuba section will offer a joyful and original holiday greeting of their own.

AK1 — Advent Concert I • Virtuosi di Basso

Suk Hall

What's On

Adam Václav Michna z Otradovic*  
The Czech Lute, selections  

John Newton*  
Amazing Grace 

Leonard Bernstein*  
West Side Story, selections 

Gioacchino Rossini*  
William Tell, overture  

Vilém Blodek*  
Intermezzo from the opera In the Well 

Antonín Dvořák*  
Symphony No. 8 in G major, Op. 88, movements II and IV 

* arr. by Tomáš Ille

Performers

Virtuosi di Basso  

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AK2 — Advent Concert II • Markéta Cukrová

Suk Hall

What's On

Antonio Vivaldi
Sinfonia in B minor, RV 169 “Al sancto sepolcro” 
Nisi dominus (Cum dederit), RV 607 
Chamber Concerto in D major, RV 96 
In furore iustissimae irae, RV 626  
Chamber Concerto in F major, RV 100 “La Serenissima” 
Qui sedes ad dexteram patris, aria from the Gloria D major, RV 589  

Performers

Markéta Cukrová mezzo-soprano

Helena Jiříkovská, Viktor Mazáček violin  
Jiří Poslední viola 
Jakub Dvořák cello 
Lucie Brotbek Prochásková flutes
Ondřej Šindelář bassoon  
Filip Dvořák harpsichord  

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Photo illustrating a concert - event Advent Concert II Markéta Cukrová

AK3 — Advent Concert III • Fišer, Krestová, Petr

Suk Hall

What's On

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 
Divertimento in E flat major for string trio, K 563 

Christmas carols 

Performers

Jan Fišer violin 
Eva Krestová viola 
Václav Petr cello

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AK4 — Advent Concert IV • Czech Philharmonic Low Brass Ensemble

Suk Hall

What's On

Jacob Handl-Gallus* 
Canite tuba in Sion, advent antiphon 

Claudio Monteverdi* 
Adoramus te, Christe  

Advent and Christmas in the Krkonoše Foothills folk songs*  

Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber*  
Serenada à cinque, A 877a “Der Nachtwächter” 

Jakub Jan Ryba* 
Dear Children, pastorale 
Let the Violins Play, pastorale  

Ivan Zelenka 
Pseudo-Baroque Suite (world premiere) 

Giulio Caccini* 
Ave Maria 

Georges Bizet*  
Agnus Dei 

Josef Vejvoda 
Looking Back  

That Time at Christmas melodies of the Karel Vlach Orchestra*  

* arr. by Břetislav Kotrba

Performers

Czech Philharmonic Low Brass Ensemble 
Robert Kozánek trombone 
Lukáš Moťka trombone 
Jan Perný trombone 
Lukáš Besuch trombone 
Karel Kučera bass trombone 
Karel Malimánek tuba

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