Announcing its first international tour since the beginning of the pandmemic. the Czech Philharmonic will give 10 concerts with Chief Conductor and Music Director Semyon Bychkov in Austria, Germany and the UK this March.
The tour kicks off on 3 March with a 3-concert residency at the Vienna Musikverein where the Czech Philharmonic have been invited to present a Festival of Czech Music. Opening with Smetana’s iconic symphonic cycle Má vlast (My Homeland), Viennese audiences will be treated to music from well-known and lesser-known Czech composers, Dvořák, Martinů, Janáček and Kabeláč, performed alongside works by Ullmann who was born in Těšín, now part of the Czech Republic, and Rachmaninov. For the Rachmaninov, which will also form part of the programme at Hamburg’s Elbphilharmonie (11 March) and London’s Barbican Centre (15 & 16 March), Bychkov and the Czech Philharmonic will be joined by Yuja Wang, the Orchestra’s 2021-22 Artist-in-Residence.