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Old music is an integral part of the program Prague Spring. This year, two legends of historically informed interpretation of music will come to the festival with their ensembles. Philippe Herreweghe invites the audience to the world of Italian madrigals of the turn of the 16th and 17th centuries, while Ton Koopman presents a program from the cantatas of his beloved Johann Sebastian Bach. The flutist Alexiss Kossenko will also perform at St. Agnes Monastery to perform the chamber music of Antonín Rejcha with other top French musicians on period instruments, in the neighborhood of the work of his notable pupil Eugène Walckiers. At the next Music Soirée with Prague Spring we will be invited to concerts by students of music science who will discuss flutist Jana Semeradova. A leading Czech personality of historically informed interpretation, she is a member of the Prague Spring Arts Council, artistic director of the Collegium Marianum Festival and dramaturgy of the Summer Festival of Early Music. Do we have any chance of approaching the sounding form of music today, as our predecessors heard it? What does the study of historical sources look like and how does it translate into the interpretation we hear at concerts? These and many other questions Jana Semerádová will answer. In addition, she will also play herself and demonstrate the differences between different historical instruments.
The flowering of the Prague Spring
The Prague Spring Festival, in cooperation with the Faculty of Arts of Charles University, invites you to a series of four discussion meetings at the Hybernská Campus. A musical soirée intended mainly for a young audience was prepared by the students of the Institute of Music Science, their guests will be the leading artists and artists associated with this year's festival. In interviews interspersed with live concert demonstrations, they will not only approach the specific festival program, but also reflect on more general issues. What do we consider Czech music today? What is the mastery of interpreting early music on period instruments? What does it look like for a contemporary composer to be inspired by prehistoric music? And how do electronic compositions come about and what technologies do composers use? You can find out at four meetings that take place on 20 February, 5 March, 19 3 and 23 April at the Hybernská Campus. Admission is free, book seats early at festival.cz/rozkvet.
The evenings are dedicated to the memory of Lenka Hlávková, who was the director of the Institute of Music Science in 2012-2015 and 2021-2023 and was at the origin of the project.
