Prom 69: Smetana, Shostakovich & Tchaikovsky

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Royal Albert HallKensington Gore, Londres, Greater London, SW7 2AP, Royaume-uni

Dates/horaires selon le fuseau horaire de London

Programme

Smetana, Bedřich (1824-1884)	The Bartered Bride – overture and Three Dances
Tchaïkovski, Piotr Ilitch (1840-1893)	Eugene Onegin – Letter Scene
Chostakovitch, Dimitri (1906-1975)	Symphony No. 8 in C minor

Artistes

Elena Stikhina	Soprano
Czech Philharmonic
Semyon Bychkov	Direction

The dancing rhythms and swirling colours of Smetana’s opera The Bartered Bride launch a concert of big musical gestures and even bigger emotions. First love blazes hot in the Letter Scene from Tchaikovsky’s opera Eugene Onegin, as Tatyana (sung here by soprano Elena Stikhina) pours out her heart in music as romantic as anything the composer ever wrote. War, not love, drives the pulsing heartbeat of Shostakovich’s Eighth Symphony – the most personal and direct of the composer’s many attempts ‘to express the terrible tragedy of war’.

Plan

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Searing Shostakovich from Bychkov and the Czech Phil

Mark Thomas, 10th September

Semyon Bychkov produces a gripping and soul-searching Shostakovich Eighth while soprano Elena Stikhina makes an impressive UK debut in Tchaikovsky.

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