Even so-called "serious music" has its hits: melodies that have touched generations, to which people have sung, danced and cried. Many of them come from folk music, from taverns, from festivals, from people's everyday lives. In "Gypsy Melodies", the Prague Talich Quartet rekindles these primal musical forces. Works by Antonín Dvořák, Leoš Janáček and Béla Bartók meet compositions by Georges Boulanger and others. Music that is deeply rooted in Central and Eastern Europe and still has a direct impact today. With the Cymbalion Lubomír Gaspar, the ensemble immerses itself in a world between exuberant joie de vivre and the deepest pain of the soul. Music that explains nothing, but makes everything tangible.

Bohemia was once regarded as "the conservatory of Europe". In the heart of Central Europe, a musical heritage was created that is characterized by passion, tradition and narrative power. The legendary conductor Václav Talich became a key figure in this culture, his nephew Jan founded the quartet named after him in 1975, which soon gained international recognition and wrote music history as the chamber ensemble of the Czech Philharmonic. Today, the second generation of the Talichs continues this legacy with the same spontaneous expressiveness, flawless intonation and infectious joy of playing.

To this day, the Talich Quartet is an ambassador of a rich Central European sound world: Bohemian landscapes, fairy tales and legends resonate here, as does the rhythmic energy of folk music. A concert with this music is not a nostalgic retrospective, but a lively experience - intense, moving, full of emotion. Listening to it, you can feel that this music celebrates life. And it wants to be shared.

Talich Quartet

Jan Talich & Roman Patočka, violin

Radim Sedmidubský, viola

Michal Kaňka, violoncello

Lubomír Gaspar - cymbalion

Bela Bartok - Roumanian dances

Antonín Dvořák - Song my mother tought me

Georges Boulanger - Avant de mourir / Hora Martisorului / Serenade tzigane

Ivan Vasiliev - Two guitars

Erik Satie - Gnossienne no. 1

Astor Piazzolla - Libertango

Pavel Fischer - Carpathian song

Leoš Janáček - Moravian poetry in music / Ukrainian song / Moravian folk song

Henryk Wieniawsky - Caprice no 4

Simpsons - Alf Clausen

Vittorio Monty - Czardas

Admission: 6:30 pm
Start: 7:00 pm
End: 8:15 pm

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