PRAGUE, CZECHIA – CZECH PHILHARMONIC – SMETANA, RACHMANINOFF

Behzod Abduraimov, piano
Czech Philharmonic
Semyon Bychkov, conductor

PROGRAMME:
Bedřich Smetana: Overture, Furiant, and Dance of the Comedians from the opera The Bartered Bride

Sergei Rachmaninoff:
Piano Concerto No. 3 in D minor, Op. 30
Symphonic Dances, Op. 45

VENUE NOTE
One man calls obsession with music a prerequisite for a conducting career, while the other calls his relationship with music the most important thing in his life. Semyon Bychkov and Behzod Abduraimov tackle a piano concerto so fiendishly difficult that Sergei Rachmaninov joked he had written it for an elephant.