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BBC Proms: 2014 Season: Prom 50

BBC Proms: 2014: Prom 50: Part 2: Prom 50 (part 2): Dvorak, Beethoven and Janacek

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Prom 50 (part 2): Dvorak, Beethoven and Janacek

Part 2 Part 2: Prom 50 (part 2): Dvorak, Beethoven and Janacek

2014

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Jiri Belohlavek conducts the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra in Beethoven's Symphony No 7.

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London, the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra's Prom under Jiri Belohlavek concludes with a performance of Beethoven's Symphony No 7 in A.

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London

Presented by Ian Skelly

The Czech Philharmonic Orchestra and Jirí Belohlávek live at the BBC Proms with music by Janacek, Beethoven and Dvorak.

Janacek: From the House of the Dead - overture
Dvorák: Cello Concerto in B minor 

8.30pm Interval 

8.50pm
Beethoven: Symphony No. 7 in A major

Alisa Weilerstein (cello)
Czech Philharmonic Orchestra
Jirí Belohlávek (conductor)

The evening opens with the authentic Czech soundscape of Janácek, in the overture from his final opera From the House of the Dead. Recent recordings of the Elgar and Dvorák cello concertos have propelled young American cellist Alisa Weilerstein into a fully fledged musical star. She makes her second visit to the Proms with the Dvorák - one of the great Romantic concertos. The composer sets his soloist against an unusually prominent orchestra, here the forces of the Czech Philharmonic, returning under Chief Conductor Jirí Belohlávek. After the interval Belohlávek directs Beethoven's 'apotheosis of the dance' - Wagner's expression referring to the rhythmic verve of the Seventh Symphony. 

This Prom will be repeated on Monday 8th September at 2pm.

BBC Proms: 2014

BBC Proms: 2014: Prom 50

Prom 50

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All broadcasts from the 120th season of the BBC Proms.

Jiri Belohlavek conducts the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra in Janacek, Dvorak and Beethoven

Jiri Belohlavek conducts the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra in music from their homeland, by Janacek and Dvorak, plus a symphony by Beethoven

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