Change of the program and performer

Witold Lutoslawski
Symphonic variations

Mieczysław Weinberg
Concertino for violoncello and orchestra op. 43 bis

Hector Berlioz
Symphonie fantastique, Op. 14

Bedřich Smetana
Šárka, a symphonic poem from the cycle Má vlast

Danjulo Ishizaka – violoncello
Janáček Philharmonic Ostrava
Andrey Boreyko – conductor

Vassily Sinaisky – the chief conductor of JPO

In its time, Symphonie fantastique must have been an incredible breach of what the listeners of the orchestra were used to. To this day, this composition shocks with its ageless freshness of instrumental colours, crafty melodies, and rhythmically inventive tempo. Berlioz’s efforts to capture dreaming, madness of passion, loving delirium, or ecstatic state of mind with musical instruments brought him to the invention of “idée fixe” – the motif of a dream woman which is present throughout the whole composition. JPO had bells made especially for this symphony and so it is one of the few orchestras that can pride itself with this instrument.