Kubička / Quantz / Rachmaninoff / Bartók
The Slovak Chamber Orchestra will open its series of concerts with a touch of young predatory spirit. A pair of soloists, the Polish Emilie Reske and the Czech Vojtěch Čermák, winners of the Flute Competition 2022, will show their technical skills in a double concerto by Johann Joachim Quantz. The Baroque virtuoso served for more than thirty years at the court of King Frederick II of Prussia, himself an amateur flutist. The long list of compositions for flute in Quantz's oeuvre is only a logical consequence of the monarch's favour. An important moment of the concert will be the premiere of a piece by the jubilant Slovak composer Víťazoslav Kubička. His work is interwoven with religious motifs and artistic inspirations. The concert is complemented by works for string orchestra, quartet by Sergei Rachmaninoff and Divertimento by Béla Bartók, which the composer wrote unexpectedly quickly, within two weeks during his stay in the Swiss Alps.
