Prometheus has just "passed" the long boring ordeal of a trial and is visiting people again. He readily chats about the latest gossip back home, but also wonders what happened to his old friend Voltaire's thoughts.

Can't you imagine it like that? Then come and see for yourself what the rarely performed music of Ludwig van Beethoven has to offer. In 75 minutes, the Six Clarinet takes you on an entertaining journey through the world of classical Olympus and the Age of Enlightenment, gently refreshed in the context of today...

Clarimonia Ensemble & Guests

Jochen Seggelke, Bernhard Kösling, Ekkehard Sauer, Lukáš Daňhel, Irvin Venyš clarinets, bass clarinets, basset horns

Narrator: Jiří Štrébl

In collaboration with: Jakub Korčák

Text and music arrangement: Bernhard Kösling

EUropean Chamber Music Melting Pot

Ludwig van Beethoven          Septet for string and wind instruments  E - flat major Op. 20

(1770 – 1827)

1. Adagio Allegro con brio
2. Adagio cantabile
3. Tempo di menuetto
4. Tema con variazioni: Andante
5. Scherzo: Allegro molto e vivace
6. Andante noc moto alla marcia

Prague Clarinet Days Festival Ensemble

Leoš Čepický – violin, Jean – Marc Fessard (FR) – clarinet, Christian Kunert – bassoon, Kryštof Koska – french horn, Petr Holman – viola, Václav Bernášek – cello, Lukáš Holubík – double base

Leoš Janáček                         Mládí, sextet for wind quintet and bass clarinet

(1854 – 1928)

1. Allegro
2. Andante sostenuto
3. Vivace
4. Allegro animato

Prague Clarinet Days Festival Wind Quintet, Stephan Vermeersch – bass clarinet (BE)

The Prague Clarinet Days project continues to present seemingly disparate and contrasting works (2021 Rudolfinum - MOZART/AHO - Czech premiere), which nevertheless belong together in terms of their compositional quality and mastery of different eras. Beethoven's Septet from the turn of the nineteenth century (1800), which the composer himself arranged for trio and piano due to its immense popularity, as well as Leoš Janáček's Youth, which the composer himself described as "such memories from my youth" in a letter to Kamila Stösslová, the premiere of which, paradoxically, was successful due to technical problems of the Brno clarinetist only for the second time in Prague, have become iconic repertoire not only for wind instruments. Performed by ensembles composed exclusively for this occasion of great Czech performers, including students and graduates of HAMU in Prague and foreign festival guests from Belgium, the Netherlands and Germany, concert-goers are in for a unique listening experience. The diverse nationality and age composition of the concert performers reflects the diversity of the European Union's cultural scene and the AMU in Prague is thus part of the celebration of the Czech Presidency of the Council of the European Union.

Residents of master classes will perform at this traditional and very popular concert along with their teachers who are world-class soloists themselves. Each concert’s particular program becomes a “living organism” created and rehearsed during the master classes.