BBC Proms 2019. Prom 69: Smetana, Shostakovich and Tchaikovsky

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BBC Proms: 2019: Prom 69: Smetana, Shostakovich and Tchaikovsky

Prom 69: Smetana, Shostakovich and Tchaikovsky

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Live BBC Proms. Semyon Bychkov conducts the Czech Philharmonic.

Live at the BBC Proms. Semyon Bychkov conducts the Czech Philharmonic in excerpts from operas by Tchaikovsky and Smetana, and in Shostakovich's wartime Symphony No 8 in C minor.

Live at BBC Proms: Semyon Bychkov conducts the Czech Philharmonic in excerpts from Tchaikovsky and Smetana operas and Shostakovich's wartime 8th Symphony.

Presented at the Royal Albert Hall by Martin Handley.

Smetana: The Bartered Bride – overture; Three Dances
Tchaikovsky: Eugene Onegin – Letter Scene

8.10pm
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Shostakovich: Symphony No 8 in C minor

Elena Stikhina (soprano)
Czech Philharmonic
Semyon Bychkov (conductor)

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’.

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