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22/02/2010

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Presented by Petroc Trelawny. BBC SO/Jiri Belohlavek in Janacek, Korngold and Martinu.

Presented by Petroc Trelawny. BBC SO/Jiri Belohlavek. Janacek, arr. Smolka: Katya Kabanova Suite. Korngold: Violin Concerto in D (soloist - Andrew Haveron). Martinu: Symphony No 4.

Presented by Petroc Trelawny

Central Europe's essential spirit courses through the veins of this evening's concert, with two great Czech composers, Janacek and Martinu, framing a Czech-born composer, Korngold, who ended up in Hollywood. The orchestral Suite from Janacek's opera Katya Kabanova , arranged by another Czech composer Jaroslav Smolka, here receives its world premiere performance. Old Vienna and the music of 1930s Hollywood combine in tuneful pomp in Korngold's Violin Concerto. Tonight's soloist is one of the BBC SO's two Leaders, Andrew Haveron. And the concert ends with the irresistible lyricism of MartinÅ¯'s Fourth Symphony (also written in the USA, in 1945).
(This is the first of three concerts this week featuring Czech composers. There's more Janacek on Wednesday, and Dvorak on Thursday).

Recorded last week at the Barbican Hall, London.

Janacek: Katya Kabanova Suite
Korngold: Violin Concerto in D major
Martinu: Symphony no.4

Andrew Haveron (violin)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
conducted by Jiri Belohlavek

Followed by music of leading contemporary composers from around the world, provided by the European Braodcasting Union.

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Leif Ove Andsnes (piano)
Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra
Myung-Whun Chung (conductor)

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David Pereira (cello)
Ian Munro (piano)

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David Pereira & Bonnie Smart (cellos)
Ian Munro (piano)

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