The Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, Semyon Bychkov, the Orfeón Donostiarra and the sisters Katia & Marielle Labèque (in the photo), close the 83rd San Sebastian Musical Fortnight with two emblematic concerts on 26th and 27th August in the Auditorio Kursaal in the capital of San Sebastian.
Possibly the most exquisite conductor on the international scene, Semyon Bychkov, returns to the Quincena Musical on August 26th to offer Mahler’s Seventh.
On the 27th, the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra and Semyon Bychkov will be joined by the sisters Katia & Marielle Labèque, in a concert that goes outside the established framework, as it will feature two works of rare rarity. First of all, the sisters will perform the Concerto for two pianos by Bohuslav Martinu, a Bohemian composer contemporary of Leoš Janáček who, although he does not enjoy the international fame of his compatriot, his oeuvre includes more than 400 works, and he is renowned above all as a composer of choral music. Martinu’s concert is accompanied by another of the great works of his contemporary Leoš Janáček: the Glagolitic Mass, a monumental work, the texts of which are in Old Church Slavonic. For this colossal work, Bychkov will make use of the voices of the Orfeón Donostiarra, as well as the soloists Evelina Dobračeva, Lucie Hilscherová, Aleš Briscein and Jan Martiník. Organist Daniela Valtová Kosinová will also take part. The programme will be completed by the best-known Czech composer of all time: Antonin Dvorak, whose Carnival Overture, op. 92 will open the concert. Tickets can be purchased at this link.
