A native of Moscow, cellist Boris Andrianov is a regular partner on stage of outstanding players such as Yuri Bashmet, Janine Jansen and Julian Rachlin. Andrianov, who replaced originally announced cellist Mee-Hae Ryo in the program of the IMF Český Krumlov, together with the residential orchestra of the festival, the Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Christian Schulz, will play one of the most beautiful cello concertos – Dvořák’s Concerto for cello and orchestra in B minor. In the second half of the evening the Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra will play Brahms’s Symphony No. 2 in D major. Thanks to its pastoral mood the symphony is often compared to Beethoven’s sixth symphony. Brahms himself called his composition so melancholic “that you won’t be able to put up with it. I have never written anything so sad”. It is up to you to judge.