BBC Proms 2019 Prom 69 - Smetana, Shostakovich and Tchaikovsky (320kbps .mp3) torrent

BBC Proms 2019 Prom 69 - Smetana, Shostakovich and Tchaikovsky (320kbps .mp3)

Live at BBC Proms: Semyon Bychkov conducts the Czech Philharmonic in excerpts from Tchaikovsky and Smetana operas and Shostakovich's wartime 8th Symphony.

01. Smetana - The Bartered Bride - overture
01a. General introduction to BBC Proms 2019 Prom 69 - Smetana, Shostakovich and Tchaikovsky
02. Smetana - Three Dances
03. Tchaikovsky - Eugene Onegin - Letter Scene
03a. Introduction to Tchaikovsky - Eugene Onegin - Letter Scene
04. Shostakovich - Symphony No 8 in C minor
04a. Introduction to Shostakovich’s Symphony No 8

Elena Stikhina (soprano)
Czech Philharmonic
Semyon Bychkov (conductor)

The 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’.

05. BBC Proms 2019 Prom 69 - Interval Proms Plus
A verbal correspondence about the function of letters in literature and life. The speakers are best-selling crime novelist Ruth Ware and Shaun Usher, editor of the popular website Letters Of Note. Hosted by New Generation Thinker Sophie Coulombeau. Produced by Zahid Warley.
Presented at the Royal Albert Hall by Martin Handley.
Broadcast: 10 September 2019