Enjoy the music between the exhibited works. Art Sounds is a new joint programme of Galerie Rudolfinum and the Czech Philharmonic in the Zhanna Kadyrova: UNEXPECTED exhibition.

On selected Tuesdays from 5 to 6 pm, you can experience a series of short musical performances by members of the Czech Philharmonic directly in the exhibition halls. Each performance is 10–13 minutes long. The repertoire freely responds to Zhanna Kadyrova’s exhibition and its themes and will be performed repeatedly on a given day. You have the opportunity to enjoy it several times in a row. Or you can opt for just one musical reflection and then move on through the exhibition.

Admission is free.

Tuesday, May 21:

Luboš Dudek violin solo

• Programme:
  Ernest Bloch: Suite No.1 for solo violin

The work of the Swiss composer of Jewish origin reflects elements of Jewish liturgical and folk music. Suite No.1 for solo violin was composed in 1958. It was dedicated to Yehudi Menuhin, but premiered by Menuhin’s pupil Alberto Lysy, an Argentine violinist with Ukrainian roots living in Switzerland. The piece is structured in four movements without interruptions. The first movement, Prelude, is rhapsodic in character and moves mostly in G minor. The following Andante tranquillo is a monody with elements of atonality. The third movement, Allegro, in the key of E minor, reflects the inspiration of Bach’s solo sonatas. The episodic Andante in D minor is in a Baroque vein and forms a brief interlude before the final Allegro energico, which again returns to G minor and is considerably intertwined with the preceding Allegro in terms of motive. Indeed, this phenomenon is characteristic of the whole work. A reminiscence of the first movement still appears shortly before the end.

All dates and programme:

• Tuesday, April 2 | 5 pm–6 pm
  Markéta Vokáčová violin solo
  Music by Johann Sebastian Bach and Eugène Ysaÿe
• Tuesday, April 9 | 5 pm–6 pm
  Zdeněk Zelba violin, Kateřina Vogelová mezzo-soprano, Roman Malý accordion
  Scenic music on Ukrainian folk motifs
• Tuesday, April 23 | 5 pm–6 pm
  Petr Havlín violin solo
  Music by Georg Philipp Telemann, Johann Sebastian Bach and Petr Havlín
• Tuesday, May 7 | 5 pm–6 pm
  Pavel Ciprys and Dominik Trávníček viola, Timotej Ciprys vocal
  Music by Pavel Ciprys, Frank Bridge and Béla Bartók
• Tuesday, May 21 | 5 pm–6 pm
  Luboš Dudek violin solo
  Music by Ernest Bloch
• Tuesday, June 4 | 5 pm–6 pm
  Jan Jouza and Markéta Vokáčová violin, Vlasta Beranová viola, Josef Dvořák cello
  Music by Johann Sebastian Bach, Dmitri Shostakovich and Ottorino Respighi
• Tuesday, June 11 | 5 pm–6 pm
  Vojtěch Jouza English horn, Anna Sommerová viola
  Music by Max Reger and Ondřej Kukal
• Tuesday, June 18 | 5 pm–6 pm
  Jan Holeňa and Dora Hájková Fidlitas Cello Duo
  Music by Dmitri Shostakovich, Pablo Casals, Astor Piazzola and Antonín Dvořák