Thu, 24. 1. 2019, 7.00 p.m.

B3 WORLD PREMIERE

Venue: Zlín Congress Centre  |  Organizer: Filharmonie Bohuslava Martinů, o.p.s.  | 

Tonight's concert presents the world premiere of a work carefully kept secret by the contemporary Czech composer and arranger Petr Wajsar, whose compositions often interweave features of modern pop and classical music. The work will be dedicated to the Zlín philharmonic orchestra and to Zlín itself.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart completed his only clarinet concerto in October 1791, a mere two months before his death. The piece was originally intended for the basset horn, not the clarinet, but the composer eventually decided that the music was much better suited to the latter instrument. The concerto in the conventional three movements was written at the instigation of the Austrian clarinettist Anton Stadler who, very keen to have a work of this type composed, persuaded Mozart to do so. There is even a story that Stadler was supposed to have locked Mozart into a hut somewhere, threatening not to let him out until he wrote the work. Yet even at death's door, Mozart's compositional elan and determination were undiminished and he quickly completed the clarinet concerto, which very soon won world public acclaim, and dedicated it to Stadler. Bringing her particular interpretational magic to the piece in tonight's concert is the outstanding Czech soloist Ludmila Peterková.
Petrushka, a ballet in four scenes, can be considered one of Igor Stravinsky's best compositions. The original version was written in 1911 when the composer was aged 29.

Tonight we hear the sharp dissonances, distinctive rhythms and Russian folk intonations of this ballet suite for large orchestra performed by the Bohuslav Martinů Philharmonic Orchestra under the baton of its Chief Conductor Tomáš Brauner.