77th Prague Spring Music Festival closes with Antonín Dvořák's Sixth Symphony in D major

The 77th Prague Spring Music Festival closed with Antonín Dvořák's Sixth Symphony in D major at the Municipal House in Prague on Friday night. It was performed by the Vienna Philharmonic and conducted by Andris Nelsons. The audience also heard a non-conformist work by Russian composer Sofia Gubaidulina and Symphony No. 9 in E flat major by Dmitri Shostakovich. The festival, which was disrupted by the coronavirus pandemic in the past two years, offered music lovers over forty concerts in a number of Prague venues. It traditionally opened with Bedřich Smetana's My Country, performed by the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra under the baton of Thomas Guggeis.