Night Prayers are part of the ensemble’s church concerts, a series in which Ensemble Opera Diversa has been bringing contemporary sacred music to fitting venues for fifteen years. This concept has featured several world and Czech premières – this programme is no exception. It includes the world première of a work by Brno composer Pavel Zemek Novák and the Czech premiere of Giya Kancheli’s Night Prayers for soprano saxophone, strings and tape.
The programme brings profoundly cathartic music together with meditative works: the world première by Brno composer Pavel Zemek Novák, the contemplative eponymous piece by Georgian composer Giya Kancheli, and, to close, a cathartically dramatic score by Slovak composer Roman Berger. All this will be performed under the baton of Gabriela Tardonová with soloists Dominika Kvardová and Jiří Mráz, as the ensemble returns to the Church of Blessed Restituta in Brno-Lesná. In this sense, the programme fits the ensemble’s long-term mission to bring the new, rediscover the overlooked and seek contexts in the less frequently performed. The concert will take place on 4 November at 7:00 p.m..
PROGRAMME:
Pavel Zemek Novák: Concerto da Chiesa. Unison with Consonant Intervals for Harp and Chamber Ensemble (2025) PREMIÈRE
Giya Kancheli: Night Prayers for Soprano Saxophone, Strings and Tape (1992) CZECH PREMIÈRE
Roman Berger: Post Scriptum for Strings (2004)
PERFORMERS:
Dominika Kvardová – harp
Jiří Mráz – soprano saxophone
Ensemble Opera Diversa, orchestra leader Jan Bělohlávek
conducted by Gabriela Tardonová
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