Thursday 21st July in the Brewery Garden will belong to film melodies written by composers Ennio Morricone and Luboš Fišer. The audience will hear Morricone’s music, for example, from the films A Fistful of Dollars, For a Few Dollars More, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly and Once Upon a Time in the West. The second half of the evening will include the musical-visual poem Sinfonia Fišeriana with motives from works by L. Fišer. The choir Canticum Camerale, singers Patricia Janečková and Taťána Roskovcová and the Bohuslav Martinů Philharmonic Orchestra under the baton of Stanislav Vavřínek will perform. The concert is also dedicated to the members of the IMF Český Krumlov Friends Club, who either have free admission to this concert or may purchase tickets at a significant discount (depending on the type of membership card) and after the concert will have the opportunity to meet the protagonists.
On Friday 22nd July piano virtuoso Alexei Volodin with the Pilsen Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Daniel Raiskin, will play at the Castle Riding Hall. Russian pianist Alexei Volodin is a recognized pianist who performs with the world’s leading orchestras. He has been cooperating with the famous Mariinsky Theatre for a long time and last season he was the theatre’s residential artist. Critics appreciate especially his sensitive style and technical brilliance. The audience will hear Sergei Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor interpreted by Volodin and after the intermission the orchestra will play Symphony No. 3 in E-flat major “Eroica”, op. 55 by Ludwig van Beethoven.
Two concerts will take place on Saturday 23rd July. One of them will be a chamber concert at the Masquerade Hall of the Český Krumlov Castle, where the Schwingungen trio will perform compositions by M. I. Glinka, L. van Beethoven and A. S. Arensky. In the Brewery Garden brilliant flamenco guitarist Carlos Piñana will present his project Flamenco Symphony. In this project the musical characteristics of flamenco intertwine with Piñana’s love for classical music. Piñana successfully combines the earthy and passionate sound of the flamenco guitar with the colours of the symphony orchestra and adds his distinctive style on the borderland between the two genres to the music. The Flamenco Symphony will be played by the Moravian Philharmonic Orchestra Olomouc under the baton of Jan Kučera and, besides Carlos Piñana, soloists Agustín Garnés (vocals, clapping), Miguel Ángel Orengo (percussion instruments) and Maise Márquez (dance, clapping) will make an appearance.
On Sunday 24th July in the morning viewers may look forward to Karel Martínek’s organ concert at the Monastery Church. They will hear compositions by J. S. Bach, J. Pachelbel and J.-C. Daquin as well as an improvised suite titled Krumlov Impressions, parts of which bear the names Chateau, Garden above Town, Rock, Vltava Meanders, Cross above the River and Fireworks.