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Performance TitleBBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2017 - One Hundred and Twenty-Third Season - Prom 56 - The Bohemian Reformation
Performance Date26 August 2017
Performance DaySaturday
Performance Time19:33
Main PerformersSvatopluk Sem - vocal
Orchestra or BandBBC Symphony Orchestra
ChoirsBBC Singers (men’s voices)
ConductorsJakub Hruša
Set List'Hussite Chorale ‘Ktož jsú Boží bojovníci’ (You Who Are Warriors of God)',
'Má vlast – Tábor; Blaník', Smetana,
'Field Mass', Martinu
INTERVAL
'Hussite Overture', Dvorák
'The Excursions of Mr Broucek – Song of the Hussites', Janácek
'Prague', Suk
Performance NotesTonight’s all-Czech programme opens with a Hussite war song, whose melody reappears in Dvorák’s Hussite Overture (depicting the struggles of Czech Reformation pioneer Jan Hus), Smetana’s symphonic poems from Má vlast and Martinu’s elegiac Field Mass, composed as a prayer for his homeland after the German invasion in 1939.
Related Archival MaterialProms Guide (RAHE/1/2017/47a),
Programme (RAHE/1/2017/101),
Mini Guide (RAHE/6/2017/36),
Posters (RAHE/2/2017/28, 32)
Ticket Prices£6-£40.00
URLhttps://thirdlight.royalalberthall.com/pf.tlx/ajTatC0aFxYbB
Catalogue
Reference NumberTitleDate
RAHE/1/2017/101BBC Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2017 - One Hundred and Twenty-Third Season - Prom 56 - The Bohemian Reformation26 August 2017
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Ref NoTitleNo of Performances
Work10965BBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2017 - One Hundred and Twenty-Third Season75
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