Litomyšl to enjoy greatest symphonic trifles conducted by Pešek
The close of the 54th Smetana’s Litomyšl International Opera Festival 2012 on Sunday 8 July at 18:00 will comprise a great solo for the Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra (PRSO) which, conducted by Libor Pešek, will perform a selection of the most popular melodies in classical music. The festival will culminate with an exceptional rendition of Tchaikovsky’s Festival Overture 1812, which is traditionally accompanied by synchronised cannon fire.
Programme:
Edward Elgar: March no.1 in D major, op. 39 from the cycle Pomp And Circumstance March
Edvard Hagerup Grieg: Solveig’s Song, In the Hall of the Mountain King from the orchestral suite Peer Gynt no.2, op. 55 and no.1, op. 46
Josef Suk: Love Song, op. 7 no. 1 (orchestration: Václav Smetáček)
Vilém Blodek: The Rising of the Moon, intermezzo from the opera In the Well
Zdeněk Fibich: At Twilight, Symphonic Poem for Orchestra, op. 39 (Idyll)Aram Khachaturian: Sabre Dance from the ballet Gajane
Aron Copland: Hoedown, fourth episode of the orchestral suite from the ballet Rodeo
Interval
Leonard Bernstein: Candide, overture to the musical/operetta
Antonín Dvořák: Humoresque in G flat major, op. 101 no. 7 (orchestration: Václav Smetáček)
Emmanuel Chabrier: España, a rhapsody for orchestra
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov: Flight of the Bumblebee from the opera The Tale of Tsar Saltan
Bedřich Smetana: Skočná from the opera The Bartered Bride
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Festival Overture 1812, op. 49
For more information visit the festival website.
