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Royal Albert HallKensington Gore, London, Greater London, SW7 2AP, United Kingdom
Dates/times in London time zone
Festival: BBC Proms
After last year’s
sensational complete
Má vlast comes
Smetana’s
autobiographical E minor
quartet, in George
Szell’s orchestration,
another first for the
Proms. Its finale is
suddenly interrupted by a graphic illustration of
the onset of deafness, a sustained high E, here on
piccolo as well as violin, imitating the tinnitus that
afflicted the composer. By contrast Prokofiev’s
concerto is one of his magical fairy-tale pieces,
championed tonight by Proms debut artist, Vadim
Gluzman. Dvorák’s dark, passionate Seventh
Symphony was commissioned by the Philharmonic
Society of London, the composer himself
crossing the Channel to direct the premiere.