Sat 26 Aug 2017

• 19:30

  Prom 56: The Bohemian Reformation

  Royal Albert Hall

  Rising star conductor Jakub Hrůša presents an all-Czech concert with the BBC SO and the BBC Singers. Smetana’s evocative tone-poem Ma vlast sits alongside Martinů’s Field Mass and Suk’s Prague. This is music of protest, anger and national pride.

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  Rising star conductor Jakub Hrůša presents an all-Czech concert with the BBC SO and the BBC Singers. Smetana’s evocative tone-poem Ma vlast sits alongside Martinů’s Field Mass and Suk’s Prague. This is music of protest, anger and national pride.

  Programme

  • • • Unknown
      • Hussite Chorale 'Ktož jsú Boži bojovníci' (You Who Are Warriors of God)(2 mins)
    • • Bedrich Smetana
      • Má vlast – Tábor
      • Má vlast – Blaník
    • • Bohuslav Martinů
      • Field Mass(26 mins)
    • • interval
    • • Antonín Dvořák
      • Hussite Overture(14 mins)
    • • Leos Janáček
      • The Excursions of Mr Brouček – Song of the Hussites(4 mins)
    • • Josef Suk
      • Prague(25 mins)

  Performers

  • Svatopluk Sem

    baritone
    baritone
  • BBC Singers (men's voices)
  • BBC Symphony Orchestra
  • Jakub Hrůša

    conductor
    conductor

  Composers

  • Unknown
  • Bedrich Smetana
  • Bohuslav Martinů
  • Antonín Dvořák
  • Leos Janáček
  • Josef Suk

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  Also part of

  Proms 2017