R3 - Petr Popelka and Pierre-Laurent Aimard

ABOUT CONCERT

Pierre-Laurent Aimard, one of today's most important pianists, will grace the Rudolfinum with his brilliant playing and a unique recital. He will perform Ravel's Concerto for Piano and Orchestra in G Major, inspired by jazz and Basque folk music. Ravel's models for his composition also included the composers Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Camille Saint-Saëns. 

The Czech Radio Children's Choir will sing Our Garden, Op. 3, a cantata for choir and orchestra by Arvo Pärt, one of his early works, under the baton of choirmaster Věra Hrdinková. We will experience with them the joyful childlike atmosphere that this cantata exudes.  

The one and only Symphony in D Minor by the French-Belgian composer César Franck is one of his most mature and most performed works, even though it has not been heard on stage so often lately. We are hence looking forward all the more to the musical dialogue that Chief Conductor Petr Popelka and the Czech Radio Symphony Orchestra will develop with it! 

The concert will be broadcast live on Czech Radio Vltava. A recording of the concert will also be broadcast on the Czech Radio D-dur programme every Wednesday. 

Programme

Arvo Pärt: Our Garden 
Maurice Ravel: Concerto for Piano and Orchestra in G Major 
César Franck: Symphony in D Minor  

Performers

Petr Popelka conductor 
Pierre-Laurent Aimard piano 
PRSO

We reserve the right to change the programme performers.