The jubilee 65th season of the Smetana’s Litomyšl National Festival is opening with a gala concert, featuring a sophisticated programme and excellent artists.

“It is a composition typical of Rachmaninoff’s entire compositional style as regards melody, stylisation and structure. The whole piece is singing. The piano and the orchestra are singing, the stream of wide-breathed melody is constantly flowing and developing.”

Ivan Sladký

Bedřich Smetana

Scherzo from Triumphal Symphony in E Major, Op. 6

Sergej V. Rachmaninov

Piano Concerto in C minor No. 2, Op. 18

Antonín Dvořák

Slavonic Rhapsodies, Op. 45

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