Martinů Symphony No. 6 (Fantaisies symphoniques)
Liszt Piano Concerto No. 1
Liszt Piano Concerto No. 2
Dvořák Symphony No. 8

Marin Alsop conductor
Stephen Hough piano



Antonín Dvořák never really suited the musical rat race in which he inevitably became embroiled. At the height of his career, symphonies were commissioned for London and New York. But there was no such commission for the Eighth. This was a symphony Dvořák wrote to satisfy nobody but himself, ‘a work singing of the joy of green pastures, of summer evenings, of the melancholy of blue forests, of the defiant merrymaking of the Czech peasants’. An eye-widening sense of fun characterises Czech music of a later age from Bohuslav Martinů, heard before both of Liszt’s rapturously virtuosic Piano Concertos.

FREE Pre-concert event | 6.15pm-6.45pm | Royal Festival Hall
A discussion on the symphonies of Bohuslav Martinů with Marin Alsop.

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Martinů: Fantasies symphoniques - I. Lento
Martinů: Fantasies symphoniques - II. Poco Allegro
Liszt: Piano Concerto No. 1 - I. Quasi Adagio
Liszt: Piano Concerto No. 1 - III. Allegro marziale animato
Liszt: Piano Concerto No. 2 - II. Allegro deciso
Liszt: Piano Concerto No. 2 - III. Marziale un poco meno allegro
Dvořák: Symphony No. 8 - I. Allegro con brio
Dvořák: Symphony No. 8 - IV. Allegro ma non troppo

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