Collegium 1704 & Collegium Vocale 1704

Under the leadership of Václav Luks, the orchestra Collegium 1704 has long since earned a worldwide reputation as masters of the music of the baroque and classical periods, taking listeners back to the days when Bach was trying to hire better musicians or when bits of The Marriage of Figaro were being played by organ grinders. This time, however, Luks’s time machine is set to an era closer to our own, and there will be period instrument performances of the Hymn “The Heirs of White Mountain” and of Dvořák’s Piano Concerto played by Eric Guo, winner of the most recent Chopin Competition on Period Instruments in Warsaw. Thanks to period instruments and informed interpretation, the Rudolfinum audience will be able to approximate the feelings of those in attendance at the premiere in 1878. Between the two works by Dvořák, many listeners will probably be surprised by Jan Václav Kalivoda’s Seventh Symphony – this refreshing, modern-sounding work was written in the year of Antonín Dvořák’s birth.

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