October14 2026 (Wed)
7:30 PM
7:30 PM
Philokallia of Today
Contemporary Sacred Music
St. Wenceslas Church - Na Zderaze
60 minutes | Classical Music | Available
| Date: | October 14, 2026 | 19:30 (Wed) |
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| Venue: | St. Wenceslas Church - Na Zderaze |
| Duration: | 60 minutes |
| Intermission: | No |
| Status: | Available |
Group discount 10+ people
Ticket in your mobile device accepted
Voices of the sacred: a choral concerto and a new work unveiled during the concert
Program:
- Alfred Schnittke: Concerto for Choir
- Jan Ryant Dřízal: Two Sacred Songs – World Premiere
Performing:
Pražští pěvci (Prague Singers), conductor - Stanislav Mistr
About the Archaion Kallos festival:
Once again, the Philokallia association invites you to the Archaion Kallos International Festival of Orthodox Music. Do not miss this beautiful spiritual and musical experience. In its literal sense, the Greek expression “archaion kallos” means “ancient beauty,” but in the vocabulary of the Holy Fathers of the Eastern Christian Church, “archaion kallos” speaks of a certain archetype, an “original beauty,” that is to say, the beauty which man beheld in Paradise and which he experienced after Creation. The Philokallia Association (philokallia, a word of Greek origin meaning “love of the beautiful”) gave this name to the first and only festival of Orthodox music in Prague because the association perceives every act in sacred music, whether of composition or interpretation, as a kind of conscious or unconscious search for this pristine beauty, the Archaion Kallos.
The festival is held under the auspices of
the Minister of Culture, Oto Klempíř,
the Ambassador of the Hellenic Republic, H.E. Mr. Dinos Konstantinou,
the Mayor of the Prague 2 Municipal District, Jan Korseska
Important:
- No intermission
- Dress code: casual
- Program subject to change
