International Music Festival Český Krumlov

• Programme

Due to the great interest of the listeners of Czech television, Czech Radio and the international network of radio stations EBU (European Broadcasting Union) in festival concerts, the organizers decided to extend the 8th year of the International Music Festival Český Krumlov into three weeks (August 6. – 28.). Keeping in the tradion of discovering new concert spaces, the Castle Garden came to life with music when the festival was opened with a performance of the Prague Soloists with Austrian conductor Martin Haselböck. In a beautiful setting by the newly reconstructed fountain, the works of baroque masters were performed. Due to the positive reception of the musical and entertaining afternoons for children these programs returned, this time each Sunday. The young laureates of the prestigious international competitions Concertino Praga, Prague Spring and Internationaler Musicwettbewerb der ARD introduced themselves for the first time. The festival events spread out into the surrounding areas, such as the parish church in Kájov, where the Schola Gregoriana Pragensia sang, the Monastery Church in Vyšší Brod and in Zlatá Korun. It’s hard to say which programs from the wide selection to highlight, perhaps the most important – the concert of the G.F.Händel’s opera Alcina, or the concert in the castle’s second courtyard of G. Fauré’s Requiem performed by the Prague Symphonic Orchestra FOK with Kühn’s mixes choir, or the closing Missa solemnis by L.van Beethoven in the castle’s Riding Hall.