CANCELLED: Czech Philharmonic Orchestra / Jakub Hrůša

»A piece of wood that shrieks in the high register and growls in the low one.« Thus Dvořák’s unflattering description of the cello. And yet he wrote one of the loveliest of all concertos for this instrument that so strongly resembles the human voice. The Dvořák Cello Concerto offers Daniel Müller-Schott ample scope for intimate playing with its cantabile lines, dramatic phrases and virtuoso passages; he is ably accompanied by the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra. After the interval, the Czech musicians play two pieces that plunge us straight into Slav history: Josef Suk’s »Scherzo fantastique« is reminiscent of wild village merrymaking, where the odd beer glass flies against the chimney, while Janáček pays musical tribute to the fierce Cossack king Taras Bulba in his rhapsody of the same name.