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Performance TitleBBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2019 - One Hundred and Twenty Fifth Season - Prom 69: Smetana, Shostakovich and Tchaikovsky
Performance Date10 September 2019
Performance DayTuesday
Performance Time19:00
Main PerformersElena Stikhina - vocals
Orchestra or BandCzech Philharmonic
ConductorsSemyon Bychkov
Set List'Oveture' and 'Three Dances' from The Bartered Bride', Smetana,
'Letter Scene' from Eugene Onegin', Tchaikovsky (Henry Wood Novelties: UK premiere 1892)
INTERVAL
'Symphony No.8 in C Minor', Shostakovich (Henry Wood Novelties: UK premiere 1944)
Performance NotesThe 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’.
Related Archival MaterialProms Guide (RAHE/1/2019/),
Programme (RAHE/1/2019/),
Mini Guide (RAHE/6/2019/31),
Digital Photographs,
Posters (RAHE/2/2019/49)
Ticket Prices£7.50-£105, £6 gallery and arena standing
URLhttps://thirdlight.royalalberthall.com/pf.tlx/2y92YNT2ULW4w
Catalogue
Reference NumberTitleDate
RAHE/6/2019/31BBC Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2019 - One Hundred and Twenty Fifth Season Mini-Guide19 July - 14 September 2019
RAHE/1/2019/107BBC Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2019 - One Hundred and Twenty Fifth Season - Prom 69: Smetana, Shostakovich and Tchaikovsky10 September 2019
Work
Ref NoTitleNo of Performances
Work11719BBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2019 - One Hundred and Twenty Fifth Season 75
Performers
CodeName of Performer(s)
DS/UK/18156Czech Philharmonic; 1896-; Czech orchestra
DS/UK/983Bychkov; Semyon (30 November 1952); Soviet conductor
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