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Congratulations to José Cura and FOK for their continuing partnership!

Concert, Prague: Resident Artist of the Prague Symphony Orchestra FOK José Cura helped the orchestra paint on wide, impressionist canvases. He started with Debussy’s monstrous ‘Sunken Cathedral’ [and] closed the evening with ‘Pictures at an Exhibit’ by Modest Mussorgsky based on paintings by Viktor Hartmann. It was a colorful evening. Cura had set up an excellent program that reminded us that this year is the centenary of Claude Debussy’s death...beginning with the ‘Sunken Cathedral,’ orchestrated by Leopold Stokowski. The majestic music completely filled Smetana Hall, yet in spite of its magnitude, it was played with feeling, slowly changing individual lines, floating in transparent harmony. This was an unusually spectacular piece to start the concert. With the ‘Pictures at the Exhibition’ by Mussorgsky, José Cura was able to create powerful musical images, with a full palette of colors, with the orchestra playing with dense, wide, sometimes romantic sound.  Everything was presented in a sensitive tempo, uncommonly detailed. The evening ended with the “Great Gate of Kiev” with the sound of glorified fanfare, in escalating emotions and indescribable musical energy, using all the colors and their shades. I’m sure not a single one was missed.  OperaPlus, 21 March 2018

Concert, Prague: The FOK presented José Cura a conductor at today's concert in Prague's Municipal House.  In a crowded Smetana Hall, he played a concert in honor Claude Debussy, who died 100 years ago in March.  “Pictures at an Exhibit” by Modest Mussorgsky was heard as a counterpoint.  The energetic Cura and the Orchestra received huge ovations. Ceske Noviny, 21 March 2018