The joint concert of the Austrian Hard-chór and the Czech Kühn Mixed Choir will take place symbolically in the church at Svatý Kamen in the former Sudetenland. The works of the Czech composer Bedřich Smetana and the Austrian composer Anton Bruckner will be performed, as it is 200 years since the birth of both composers. They will be complemented by works by the jubilant Arnold Schönberg and, in the spirit of the upcoming Year of Czech Music, by other Czech composers.
The accompanying program will include an exhibition on site in cooperation with the South Bohemian Memory of the Nation and bilingual guided tours about the history of the area and the fate of its inhabitants.
Artists
- Hard-chór (AT), Alexander Koller – choirmaster
- Kühn Mixed Choir (CZ), Igor Karpilovskij – choirmaster
Program
- Anton Bruckner (1824–1896): Ave Maria, Pange Lingua, Christus factus est, Virga Jesse, Os justi, Vexilla regis
- Arnold Schönberg (1874–1951): Peace on Earth
- Leoš Janáček (1854–1928): The Wild Duck
- Petr Eben (1929–2007): selection from the cycle Love and Death: Under the Green Oak, The Sun Goes Down, Stable Love
- Bedřich Smetana (1824–1884): Drei Frauenchöre nach Texten von J. V. Sládek
- Antonín Tučapský (1928–2014): Fünf Fastenmotetten (Tristis est anima mea, Pater mi, Filiae Jerusalem, Eli, eli, Pater meus)
- Anton Bruckner: Locus iste Resound (arr. Alex Koller), common song
- Bedřich Smetana: The Bartered Bride – Why Shouldn't We Rejoice