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Opening concert of the 2018 Prague Spring International Music Festival: the Czech Philharmonic performs Ma Vlast which has opened the Festival every year since 1952 on 12th May, the anniversary of Smetana's death. The concert was dedicated to the memory of Ji艡铆 B臎lohl谩vek, long-time President of the Festival.
After the opening concert we'll hear the first of four Bach motets this week, performed by the Monteverdi Choir & English Baroque Soloists under John Eliot Gardiner plus Julian Rachlin joins the Prague Symphony Orchestra to play Mendelssohn's perennially popular violin concerto, and Katarina Karn茅us sings Wagner's sumptuous Wesendonck Lieder which set five poems by Mathilde Wesendonck with whom the composer had fallen in love.
Presented by Fiona Talkington.

Smetana: M谩 vlast
Czech Philharmonic Orchestra
Tom谩s Netopil , conductor
Opening concert of the 2018 Prague Spring Festival, recorded at Smetana Hall

c.3.15pm
Bach: Wachet! Betet! Betet! Wachet!, BWV 70
Monteverdi Choir
English Baroque Soloists
John Eliot Gardiner , conductor
Recorded at Dvo艡谩k Hall, Rudolfinum

c.3.40pm
Schoenberg: A Survivor from Warsaw, op. 46
Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto in E minor, op. 64
Ysa每e: Sonata for Solo Violin No. 3 in D minor, op. 27 ('Ballade')
Julian Rachlin , violin
Prague Symphony Orchestra
Tom谩拧 Brauner , conductor
Recorded at Smetana Hall

c.4.25pm
Wagner: Wesendonck Lieder, WWV 91
Katarina Karn茅us , mezzo-soprano
Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra
Marko Ivanovi膰 , conductor
Recorded at Smetana Hall