Thu, 28. 11. 2013,
B1 - WEBBER - REQUIEM
Venue: Zlín Congress Centre | Organizer: Filharmonie Bohuslava Martinů, o.p.s. |
P. Fiala: Suite for Strings
D. Shostakovich: Concerto for Piano, Trumpt and String Orchestra no. 1, Op 35
A. Lloyd-Webber: Requiem
Terezie Fialová - piano
Pavel Skopal - trumpet
Adriana Kohútková - soprano, Tomáš Černý - tenor
Czech Philharmonic Choir Brno, Petr Fiala - choral director
Stanislav Vavřínek - conductor
Andrew Lloyd-Webber's venture into a composition such as his Requiem came as something of a surprise. Written after the death of his father, it was first performed in 1985, winning the composer a Grammy award for Best Classical Contemporary Composition, with many recordings made of its Pie Jesu, often as a piece in its own right. The whole of tonight's concert is a celebration of the 70th birthday of Petr Fiala, the outstanding choral director and musical director of the Brno-based Czech Philharmonic Choir, which he founded in 1990 and nurtured into one of the best and most sought-after professional choirs in Europe. Petr Fiala is also a composer, and his Suite for String Orchestra was written in 1980 just after he completed his full-length opera Beauty and the Beast after the tale by František Hrubín. The four-section Suite draws thematically on that opera. The soloist invited for this evening is Terezie Fialová, the composer's daughter, and one of the most talented pianists of the rising generation. She will play the Concerto for Piano, Trumpet and String Orchestra by another 20th-century composer Dmitriy Shostakovich written and premiered in 1933.