Prom 56

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Royal Albert HallKensington Gore, London, Greater London, SW7 2AP, United Kingdom

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Programme

Traditional	Ktož jsú boží bojovníci (You who are warriors of God)
Smetana, Bedřich (1824-1884)	Má vlast (My Fatherland)
Martinů, Bohuslav (1890-1959)	Field Mass, cantata for baritone male choir and orchestra, H 279
Dvořák, Antonín (1841-1904)	Husitská (Hussite) Overture, Op.67
Janáček, Leoš (1854-1928)	The Excursions of Mr Brouček: Song of the Hussites
Suk, Josef (1874-1935)	Praga, symphonic poem, Op.26

Performers

Svatopluk Sem	Baritone
BBC Singers		Men's voices
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Jakub Hrůša	Conductor

The Bohemian Reformation

Tonight’s all-Czech programme opens with a Hussite war song, whose melody reappears in Dvořák’s Hussite Overture (depicting the struggles of Czech Reformation pioneer Jan Hus), Smetana’s symphonic poems from Má vlast and Martinů’s elegiac Field Mass, composed as a prayer for his homeland after the German invasion in 1939.

Tickets £7.50 - £40.

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