I Maestri present: Bohemian Rhapsody

I Maestri welcomes all to an exciting programme of Czech music. Yes! I dare say, as Mahler was born in Jihlava in Moravia.

Dvorak's last symphonic poem, The Golden Spinning Wheel is the third of his poems based on Petr Erben's folk tales, which were passed on verbally for 100's of years and written down in the 19 century. As in all fairy tales, there are sinister, dark twists, and nowhere more so than here where the Spinning wheel tells of where to find the dismembered body of the young maiden.

Suk was Dvorak's son in law and the Fantasie for violin is a masterpiece of equal story-telling, which needs to be heard much more outside of the Czech lands.

Mahler's Ruckert Lieder are some of his last lieder and extremely beautiful.

Janacek, another Moravian, was equally one of the geniuses of the 20th century. His music is very original yet his inspiration coming from Moravian folk music. He composed almost all his masterpieces around the age of 80 when he fell in love with a young girl and the masterpieces resulting from this late passion gave us extraordinary music.

We hope you can join us for this performance of wonderful music.