Change of the program.

Gija Kancheli
In Petto

Franz Schubert
Unfinished Symphony no. 8 in B minor, D. 759

Jan Novák
Dido

Gija Kancheli
Nu.Mu.Zu.

Václava Krejčí Housková – mezzo-soprano
Richard Novák – artistic presentation
Czech Philharmonic Choir of Brno – men’s choir
Michael Dvořák – 2nd choirmaster
Janáček Philharmonic Ostrava
Andrey Boreyko – conductor

The second piece to be performed at the final concert is the Eighth Symphony by Franz Schubert, a talented composer who died when he was only thirty-one. Even so, he left behind a vast work collection of around a hundred pieces. He never completed his “Eighth” and it was not discovered until ten years after his death.

The evening will be closed with the composition Dido by the Czech composer Jan Novák, who lived between 1921 and 1984 and is one of the most important representatives of the inter-war generation. He wrote the cantata Dido in 1967 on the occasion of the centenary of the founding of the first Czech classical grammar school in Brno. All his life he loved Latin and culture in general. That’s why Dido. And that’s why in Latin.