The Virtuosi Pragenses with soloists Bohuslav Matoušek and Jakub Junek, the professor and his successful student, performed a chamber program at the Masquerade Hall on Thursday 27^th July. From the great quantity of incidental music by English composer Henry Purcell, the Virtuosi played a suite for a string orchestra “The Gordian Knot Unty’d”. Both soloists also interpreted Mozart’s melodic and playful Concertone for two violins and orchestra in C major, in which the string ensemble was complemented by wind instruments. The program continued with the Orchestral quartet in F major Op. 4/No. 4 by Carl Stamitz and the Concerto for two violins and orchestra in C major by Georg Philipp Telemann. At the end of the concert the musicians returned to music by Carl Stamitz. The audience heard his Sinfonia concertante for violin and viola in D major, in which Bohuslav Matoušek performed as a violist. We asked both musicians about their impressions, “I am really happy about the concert. It was a great pleasure to play here with professor Matoušek. I have seen the program of the entire festival, every concert and the artists who perform here are an incredible line-up so the atmosphere here must be brilliant thanks to that,” said Jakub Junek. Bohuslav Matoušek also spoke highly of their joint performance, “It was a pleasure to play here because the audience which came to see us was fantastic. The atmosphere was really excellent. The only thing was that it rained in the second half, humidity rose in the hall and our fingers slipped on the strings but I hope that nobody could tell. I come back to the festival quite regularly and I really like it. I believe that it is one of the festivals which suit me a lot. I always enjoy playing here and I play with joy. The artists who meet here are of very high standard and when I can count myself as one of them together with my amazing student, who is actually now my colleague, Jakub Junek, it is even more joyous. It was a very nice return for me.” At first they were planning to play Mozart’s Sinfonia concertante for violin and viola which was, however, “snatched away” from them by the interpreters who performed the following day – Julian Rachlin and Sarah McElravy. “Then I thought of the combination with Stamitz, and because it is shorter, we completed the program with Telemann. I trust that such a program was a good selection for the audience in the end,” remarked Matoušek. The audience rewarded all the performers with a standing ovation and solicited an encore – the third movement of the Sonata for two violins in A major by French composer Jean-Marie Leclair.