Mizuno & Hanus & DSO Berlin

Bruckner’s “boldest” symphony and Shostakovich’s cello concerto with Yuya Mizuno, winner of the Prague Spring IMC 2025, are brought to you by Berlin’s Grammy Award-winning “orchestral think tank”.

The festival concert on 31 May will see the return of several big names. After an absence of almost thirty-five years the Prague Spring welcomes back one of the finest German symphonic ensembles, Berlin’s “think tank”, the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin. Following Lorin Maazel and Vladimir Ashkenazy, taking the helm on this occasion will be Czech conductor Tomáš Hanus, whose performance of My Country with the Welsh National Opera Orchestra in 2023 resonates to this day in the hearts of countless music fans. Moreover, together they will present works by two composers cherished by the Prague Spring: Dmitri Shostakovich, who was a guest of the festival back in 1947, and Anton Bruckner, whose colossal symphonies have been performed at the Prague Spring by the likes of Karl Böhm, Kurt Masur, Lorin Maazel and Daniel Barenboim. The soloist in Shostakovich’s Concerto for Cello and Orchestra No. 1 is the charismatic winner of the Prague Spring International Music Competition 2025, Japanese cellist Yuya Mizuno. “Performing Shostakovich’s Cello Concerto No. 1 at the Prague Spring International Music Festival holds a special significance for me,” Yuya tells us. “It was composed in 1959 for Mstislav Rostropovich, who himself won the Prague Spring International Music Competition in 1950 and had a deep connection to this city. It is a great honour to perform this work in the same place, following in his footsteps.”

Tickets: 700 – 1 900 CZK