Blossoming of Prague Spring

The three best young harpsichordists accompanied by the Collegium 1704 and the Prague Philharmonia will compete in works by Johann Sebastian Bach and Bohuslav Martinů in honour of the Czech queen of the harpsichord, Zuzana Růžičková.

Bedřich Smetana’s Má vlast in the Smetana Hall in Municipal House performed by the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra under conductor Jaap van Zweden

The top three competitors will go head-to-head in Franz Krommer’s popular clarinet concerto and virtuosic variations by Jean Françaix.

After her stunning recital in 2024 Iveta Apkalna, one of the world’s most popular organists, returns with the State Choir LATVIJA in a programme featuring works dating from the Renaissance to the present day.

An exploration tracing the origins of 17th century Italian opera through to masterpieces by Antonio Vivaldi, along with the festival debut of top-flight period-instrument ensemble La Cetra Barockorchester Basel

From Andersen’s fairy tales to the giant waves of the Pacific Ocean. A programme which found inspiration in the infinite colours of nature. Claude Debussy, Hector Berlioz and Kaija Saariaho.

Discover Ludwig van Beethoven through performances of his complete symphonies and get a Beethoven pass offering a range of experiences. The first evening will feature Symphonies Nos. 1 and 2, and the most popular symphony of all time, the Eroica!

Discover Ludwig van Beethoven through performances of the complete symphonies and get a Beethoven pass featuring a range of experiences. On the second evening, Fate will be performed, paired with the charming Symphony No. 4.

Discover Ludwig van Beethoven through performances of his complete symphonies and get a Beethoven pass offering a range of experiences. On the third evening, you’ll be enchanted by the natural scenery of the Pastoral and the radiant Apotheosis of Dance with its immortal Allegretto!

A meditative solo concert from this year’s curator of the new Prague Spring Jazz Series, in which he will also be joined by a special guest. A concert with a surprise in store, which you won’t hear anywhere else!

“He can say more in a few lines of music than most guitarists manage over the course of an entire career.” (The New York Times). Kurt Rosenwinkel who rewrote the DNA of modern jazz appearing with his trio at the Prague Spring for the first time.

Piano trios by Beethoven and Brahms in a first-rate performance by Igor Levit, Renaud Capuçon and Julia Hagen, plus a Beethoven pass featuring a whole range of experiences on top of that!

Ádám Fischer’s triple debut, in which the temperament of works by Ludwig van Beethoven encounters the elegant music of Joseph Haydn. Together with your ticket you will also receive a Beethoven pass featuring a range of experiences.

A selection from Ludwig van Beethoven’s 32 piano sonatas, for whose recording Igor Levit was nominated for a Grammy Award. The famous Tempest, the thrilling Waldstein Sonata and a Beethoven pass on top of that!

Imagine yourselves for a while as students and philosophers in the early 18th century who, in the flickering candlelight of Leipzig’s legendary Café Zimmermann, listened to pleasing music as they treated themselves to an exotic luxury known as coffee.

“I do not care for his music.” A merciless duel between two great composers and contemporary rivals Tchaikovsky and Brahms and the festival debut of a Japanese piano superstar.

Charismatic American vocalist and two-time Grammy Award winner accompanied by the celebrated jazz pianist Fred Hersch, curator of the Prague Spring Jazz Series 2027.

John Adams on the conductor’s rostrum and the Vienna Philharmonic performing his music exclusively! The Czech premiere of the piano concerto After the Fall played by Grammy Award holder Víkingur Ólafsson.

Discover Ludwig van Beethoven through performances of his complete symphonies and get a Beethoven pass offering a range of experiences. We’ll bid farewell to the ticking metronome in Symphony No. 8 and to the Ninth with the Ode to Joy!

After an absence of seventeen years, Anne-Sophie Mutter returns to the Prague Spring to perform together with Muriel Razavi and Kian Soltani the Czech premiere of the triple concerto Arch of Light by Iranian composer Golfam Khayam.

Women in music from the Middle Ages to the 20th century. A song recital given by Sabine Devieilhe and Mathieu Pordoy who, after appearing together in New York, London, Vienna and Paris, will perform in Prague as well.

Bread and salt: two masterpieces by Enno Poppe, Prague Offspring’s Composer-in-Residence 2027, and four world premieres of works commissioned by the Prague Spring.

Can music be corporeal? You’ll find the answer in a world premiere and in an essential work by Enno Poppe, Körper, in which Ensemble Modern is transformed into a big band.

One of the world’s finest chamber ensembles makes its debut at the Prague Spring together with American violinist Joshua Bell, who will perform Beethoven’s Violin Concerto on his Stradivarius.

A fabulous vocal cast headed by opera superstar Jakub Józef Orliński, a world-class early music ensemble, seven festival debuts, and the bloody tale of Salome

Conductor Piotr Wacławik, pianist Sehyeok Son, winner of the Prague Spring Competition 2026, and a programme combining virtuosity, wit, magic and Mussorgsky’s spectacular Pictures at an Exhibition, brilliantly orchestrated by Maurice Ravel.

Beethoven’s majestic Missa solemnis, performed by the Prague Symphony Orchestra, the Slovak Philharmonic Choir, a quartet of world-class soloists and Tomáš Netopil and your last chance to get a Beethoven Pass!