Afternoon on 3 - 28/08/2008

Presented by Penny Gore. BBC Proms 2008: A Prom with Jiri Belohlavek conducting the BBC Symphony Orchestra in music from his Czech homeland. With Dvorak's 16 Slavonic Dances, which began life as piano duets before his publisher persuaded him to orchestrate them - to huge success. Plus Janacek's rarely-heard, semi autobiographical opera Osud (Fate), about the writing of an opera telling the story of the composer Zivny and his lover Mila, both the object of his obsessive love and the subject of his work. Starring tenor Stefan Margita and soprano Amanda Roocroft. Introduced by Donald McLeod. Zivny ...... Stefan Margita Mila ...... Amanda Roocroft Mila's Mother ...... Rosalind Plowright Dr Suda/Hrazda ...... Ales Briscein Konecny ...... Owen Gilhooly Ms Stuhla ...... Ailish Tynan Ms Pacovska/Fanca/Souckova ...... Martina Bauerova Doubek as a child ...... George Longworth Dvorak: Slavonic Dances, Op 46 Janacek: Osud BBC Singers BBC Symphony Orchestra Jiri Belohlavek (conductor) Plus Chamber Music: Schumann: 3 Romances, Op 94 Chen Halevi (clarinet) Noam Greenberg (piano).