Performed by pianist Kirill Gerstein and the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Tomáš Netopil, the concert will feature compositions by Smetana, Rachmaninoff, and Dvořák. Due to the renovation of Litomyšl Castle, the concert will take place in the Festival Hall, which was nominated for the European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture – Mies van der Rohe Award in 2007.

From the Rai ‘Arturo Toscanini’ Auditorium comes the debut concert of Franco-German cellist Nicolas Altstaedt with the Rai Orchestra, performing the Jewish rhapsody for cello and orchestra *Schelomo*, one of Ernest Bloch’s best-known works. Tomáš Netopil takes to the podium and, to open the programme, presents the Rai premiere in Turin of the Overture from the third act of the opera Bouře (The Tempest), written in 1895 by the composer Zdeněk Fibich and based on Shakespeare’s play. The evening concludes with Antonín Dvořák’s Symphony No. 8 in G major, Op. 88, composed in 1889 in Prague and known as the ‘English’ Symphony.