Performing again this year at the Prague Proms International Music Festival, are the CNSO Chamber Soloists. The group was founded a few years ago, when Jan Hasenöhrl and violinist Alexej Rosík had the idea to select the top players from the CNSO and build a chamber choir. Since then, the ensemble has played a number of successful concerts and accompanied several incredible soloists like Lucienne Renaudin Vary, Jiří Houdek and the aforementioned concertmaster Alexej Rosík.
The group will perform Béla Bartók's Romanian Folk Dances, written in 1915. This will be followed by a performance of Leoš Janáček's Suite for Strings. This work was the composer's first orchestral composition, which he composed before beginning his studies at the Leipzig Conservatory. It was also the piece which he first conducted in December 1877.
As the final genre represented, audiences can look forward to hearing one of the last chamber compositions by Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, entitled Souvenir de Florence. He composed it in the summer of 1890 and dedicated the piece to the St. Petersburg Society for Chamber Music as a gesture of gratitude for becoming an honorary member. Souvenir de Florence is a composition full of love, joy, but also an inner confession of Tchaikovsky’s to Florence. Florence was the Tuscan metropolis where the composer frequently enjoyed staying, enchanted by the city's architecture and atmosphere.