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Czech Philharmonic at the Proms
10th September 2019 @ 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Semyon Bychkov conducts the Czech Philharmonic in Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 8 – the most personal of the composer’s many confrontations with the horror of war. Love dominates the first half, in music from the operas Eugene Onegin and The Bartered Bride.
Programme
Bedrich Smetana
The Bartered Bride – overture
The Bartered Bride – Three Dances(19 mins)
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Eugene Onegin – Letter Scene(12 mins)
Henry Wood Novelties: UK premiere, 1892
interval
Dmitry Shostakovich
Symphony No 8 in C minor(65 mins)
Henry Wood Novelties: UK premiere, 1944
Performers
Elena Stikhina
soprano
Czech Philharmonic
Semyon Bychkov
conductor