Violinist

The Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra will open the evening with the Fairy Tale-Poem by contemporary Russian author Sofia Gubaidulina. This orchestral work tells the story of a piece of white school chalk that dreams of drawing beautiful castles, gardens and seas on a blackboard Instead, it has to write boring words and numbers and draw geometric shapes every day. The schoolchildren are growing up and there is less and less writing for it. Will someone's childlike hand make her dreams come true?

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Andris Poga and Tchaikovsky's Pathétique

Rudolfinum

Not just summer, sun, and sunshine, but flamenco, rhythm, and guitar sounds: Spain's culture has so many treasures to offer that this year's country focus is turning our attention to Southern Europe and celebrating music and dance with a Spanish Night. In this concert project, presented exclusively at the Rheingau Music Festival, Linus Roth and Anabel Montesinos present well-known works by Spanish composers. And, of course, one thing cannot be missing from a Spanish Night: flamenco. It will be diverse and passionate when Rocio Osuna and Juan Carlos Sánchez bring this cultural heritage to the stage, lending the Rheingau a southern European flair.

Spanish Night

Eberbach Abbey

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Gewandhaus

In the 1930s, large parts of Europe were dominated by totalitarian rulers: Mussolini in Italy, Horthy in Hungary, Franco in Spain, Hitler in Germany and "annexed" Austria - all of them suppressed any form of opposition and dissenting opinion. These strongly nationalistic regimes also found their equivalent on the other side of the political spectrum, namely in the Soviet Union under the leadership of Joseph Stalin. His vast empire was characterized by a relentless terror that knew no borders. Countless people - including many critical intellectuals and artists - fell victim to his regime. They acted in the shadow of his power - including the two composers Dmitri Shostakovich and Mieczysław Weinberg. In their music they combine not only masterful craftsmanship and artistic genius, but also the echo of their time, the suffering and the hope of an entire oppressed generation. As a Pole of Jewish descent, Weinberg's fate was almost hopeless - he had to flee from the Nazis, married into an influential Moscow family, but was repeatedly caught in the wheels of Stalin's terror. His works reflect the grief and resilience of his people, who were ravaged by the horror of the Holocaust. Weinberg's music interweaves the painful memories of loss and suffering with an unshakable human dignity that captivates and shakes the listener at the same time. Weinberg was artistically supported by his mentor Dmitri Shostakovich, which led to a lifelong friendship, a bond that - given a similar fate - could possibly be described as a soul mate. Shostakovich, whose biography was shaped by the terrible atrocities of the Stalin era, found a way to proclaim unspoken truths in his musical language. His symphonies are like cries of the soul, yearning for freedom and seeking justice in a world of repression. He dared to push the boundaries of what was permissible in his works, yet always found a way to convey his message of humanity and hope. The dialogue between Weinberg and Shostakovich reveals not only the horror of their lives, but also the infinitely profound power of art, which provides a spark of light even in the darkest hours of human destiny. 

A1 Weinberg and Shostakovich – In the shadow of power

Gotha Cultural Centre

Two days before the Day of Remembrance for the Victims of National Socialism, the Kammermusikfreunde invite you to an extraordinary concert evening dedicated to ostracised music. The first part of the concert will focus on works by Polish-Jewish composers whose work was persecuted under the Nazi regime and suppressed from musical life for a long time. The second part of the evening opens up new perspectives: Three German-Jewish cantors and a shofar (reverberating trombone) player present Jewish liturgical music - from traditional chants from Eastern Europe to compositions from the German and American liberal synagogue. The shofar, one of the oldest surviving instruments in the Bible and still an integral part of Jewish services today, lends the concert a special spiritual depth.

Violinist

Linus Roth

Events

Upcoming events

Jan 25, 2026

Bar Zemach / Linus Roth / Jascha Nemtsov · Elbphilharmonie

Past events

Nov 24, 2025

Andris Poga and Tchaikovsky's Pathétique · Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra

Jun 26, 2025

Spanish Night · Rheingau Musik Festival

Future and recently performed repertoire

Violin in Violin Concerto by Weinberg

Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra

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