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Performance TitleBBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concert 2014 - One Hundred and Twentieth Season - Prom 50 - Dvorak, Beethoven and Janacek
Performance Date24 August 2014
Performance DaySunday
Performance Time19:32
Main PerformersAlisa Weilerstein - cello
Orchestra or BandCzech Philharmonic Orchestra
ConductorsJirí Belohlávek
Set List'From the House of the Dead – Overture', Janácek, arr. F Jílek,
'Cello Concerto in B Minor', Dvorak
INTERVAL
'Symphony No.7 in A Major', Beethoven,
ENCORES
1st half
'Suite No.3 in C Major-'Sarabande'', J S Bach,
2nd half
'Slavonic Dance No.3', Dvorak,
'Skocná' from The Bartered Bride, Smetana
'Valse Triste', Nedbal
Performance NotesRecent 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.

The evening opens with the authentic Czech soundscape of Janácek, in the overture from his final opera From the House of the Dead.

The event was broadcast on BBC Radio 3.
Related Archival MaterialProms Guide (RAHE/1/2014/53),
Programme (RAHE/1/2014/101),
Posters (RAHE/2/2014/41),
Proms Mini-Guide
Ticket Prices£5.00-£46.00
URLhttps://thirdlight.royalalberthall.com/pf.tlx/asZa92axd0dX
Catalogue
Reference NumberTitleDate
RAHE/1/2014/101BBC Proms 2014 - Prom 5024 August 2014
Work
Ref NoTitleNo of Performances
Work9894BBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2014 - One Hundred and Twentieth Season76
Performers
CodeName of Performer(s)
DS/UK/31Britain; British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC); 18 October 1922-; British public service broadcaster
DS/UK/19179Weilerstein; Alisa (1982-); American classical cellist
DS/UK/18156Czech Philharmonic; 1896-; Czech orchestra
DS/UK/1029Belohlávek; Jirí (1946-2017); CBE; Czech conductor
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