Performance on 3 - Performance on 3: Smetana, Suk, Mahler, Dvorak - Thu, 8 January 2009 - Part 1

In a concert from London's Barbican, the BBC Symphony Orchestra celebrates the vibrancy of Czech music with its chief conductor Jiri Belohlavek, a leading exponent of the music of his homeland. The programme matches Smetana's patriotic overture together with the fireworks and romance of Suk's Fantasy. Dagmar Peckova (soprano) Ivan Zenaty (violin) BBC Symphony Orchestra Jiri Belohlavek (conductor) Smetana: Overture (Libuse) Suk: Fantasy in G for violin and orchestra.