| Date and venue | Title |
|---|---|
| 24-Oct-2012 Bridgewater Hall | The Hallé and Markus Stenz: Dvořák and Beethoven |
Markus Stenz conducted a lean and crisp performance of Beethoven’s Eroica Symphony which remained unsentimental and lively throughout, prefaced by a nostalgically sunny Dvořák Cello Concerto with soloist Miklós Perényi.
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| 24-Feb-2012 Festspielhaus | Dvořák with Mischa Maisky and Bamberger Symphoniker |
This was the second of a triptych of concerts in Baden-Baden centred around the Russian cellist Mischa Maisky, who played here with the Bamberger Symphoniker and Jonathan Nott in an all-Dvořák programme.
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| 20-Jul-2011 Royal Albert Hall | Two Czech Masterpieces |
Tonight's Prom gave the chief conductor of the BBC Symphony Orchestra, Jiří Bělohlávek, the chance to showcase two masterpieces from his homeland, with the first half comprising the ever-popular Cello Concerto No. 2 by Dvořák and the second half, Smetana's epic cycle of symphonic poems, Má Vlast. The latter work, surprisingly, received its first complete Proms' performance this evening.
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| 17-Mar-2011 Southbank Centre: Royal Festival Hall | A Brahms baguette |
Bread, filling, bread. Overture, concerto, symphony. Despite flirtations with open sandwiches, club sandwiches and two-symphony programmes, it seems that in both cases most people stick to tradition. But not the Philharmonia and András Schiff: last night’s programme began with Mendelssohn’s brooding Hebrides Overture, followed by Brahms’ Fourth Symphony. Dvořák’s Cello Concerto in B Minor came in the second half, performed by British super-cellist Steven Isserlis.Read full review... | |