CD90773 BBC PROMS 2011 - Dvorak, Smetana
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CD90773 BBC PROMS 2011 - Dvorak, Smetana
From the BBC Radio 3 website
20/7/2011
BBC PROMS 2011
Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London
Presented by Tom Service
A Czech evening with Dvorak's Cello Concerto and a Proms first performance for
the six symphonic poems of Má vlast by Smetana.
Dvorák's Cello Concerto is full of melody and heartfelt sentiment, to which
French cellist Jean-Guihen Queyras will bring both youthful urgency and
intimacy, if his recording with tonight's conductor is anything to go by. The
work is widely regarded as the finest concerto ever written for the instrument.
Nostalgia turns to nationalism in the second half, with Smetana's Má vlast - a
glorious musical touchstone for 'the resurrection of the Czech nation, its
future happiness and glory'.
Dvorák: Cello Concerto in B minor
Jean-Guihen Queyras (cello)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Jiri Belohlávek (conductor)
BBC Radio 3 Digital Broadcast (m4a, 320kbps)