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Prague

Marvelous Martinů in Prague

By Frank Kuznik, 07 December 2024

The composer's work and influence shone brightly in the finale to this year's Bohuslav Martinů Days festival.

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Prague

09 Dec 2024

Marvelous Martinů in Prague

By Frank Kuznik

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Prague

The spirit of the revolution lives on in Prague: Petr Popelka conducts the Czech Phil

By Frank Kuznik, 16 November 2024

With Petr Popelka on the podium, the Czech Philharmonic provides a memorable commemoration of the 35th anniversary of the Velvet Revolution.

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Prague

18 Nov 2024

The spirit of the revolution lives on in Prague

By Frank Kuznik

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London

Angelic and tragic: Czech Phil glistens in Dvořák and Suk at the BBC Proms

By Mark Thomas, 27 August 2024

The Year of Czech Music continues at the BBC Proms with a highly-shaped Dvořák Cello Concerto from Proms debutant Anastasia Kobekina and Suk’s monster of a symphony, Asrael.

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London

28 Aug 2024

Angelic and tragic: Czech Phil glistens in Dvořák and Suk at the Proms

By Mark Thomas

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Anstruther

A stellar evening of Czech music at the East Neuk Festival

By Simon Thompson, 27 June 2024

The Belfiato Wind Quintet and Pavel Haas Quartet bring unique intensity to the East Neuk Festival's Czech night, quivering with intensity as they bring their homeland's music to life.

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Anstruther

27 Jun 2024

A stellar evening of Czech music at the East Neuk Festival

By Simon Thompson

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Singapore

Pavel Haas Quartet’s triumphant, all-Bohemian Singapore debut

By Chang Tou Liang, 19 May 2024

Pavel Haas Quartet makes a triumphant Singapore debut with all-Bohemian programme of Suk, Smetana and Janáček.

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Singapore

20 May 2024

Pavel Haas Quartet’s triumphant, all-Bohemian Singapore debut

By Chang Tou Liang

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Hamburg

A searing Shostakovich 8 from Jurowski and the Berlin Radio Symphony

By Alexander Hall, 04 May 2024

One of the glories of the German musical landscape are its radio orchestras. Up there with the finest, Vladimir Jurowski’s Berliners impress in Martinů and Shostakovich, while Christian Tetzlaff forays into Suk.

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Hamburg

05 May 2024

A searing Shostakovich 8 from Jurowski and the Berlin Radio Symphony

By Alexander Hall

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London

Excellent orchestral cuisine from Hindoyan and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

By Alexander Hall, 01 May 2024

What an enterprising programme from Domingo Hindoyan, Matthew Gee and the RPO: a sparkling orchestral piece by Suk, an energising trombone concerto by Tomasi and a much-loved symphony by Dvořák.

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London

02 May 2024

Excellent orchestral cuisine from Hindoyan and the RPO

By Alexander Hall

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Liverpool

Stunning Sibelius from Simone Lamsma in Liverpool

By Peter Connors, 11 January 2024

After a delightful opener by Suk, Simone Lamsma wows in stunning Sibelius with the RLPO before Rachmaninov's ill-fated, dramatic First Symphony completes the programme.

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Liverpool

12 Jan 2024

Stunning Sibelius from Simone Lamsma in Liverpool

By Peter Connors

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Manchester

Sir Mark Elder's Hallé programme a powerful reminder of what we've missed

By Rohan Shotton, 25 November 2021

Boris Giltburg joins The Hallé for Rachmaninov's Fourth Piano Concerto, the emotional heart of the evening.

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Manchester

28 Nov 2021

Elder's Hallé programme a powerful reminder of what we've missed

By Rohan Shotton

Prague

Jakub Hrůša and the Czech Philharmonic reveal the consolations of nature

By Alexander Hall, 09 March 2021

Elgar’s elegiac cello concerto with Alisa Weilerstein’s majestic assumption of the solo part, coupled with a late Romantic masterpiece in the capable hands of Jakub Hrůša and the Czech Philharmonic.

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Prague

10 Mar 2021

Jakub Hrůša and the Czech Phil reveal the consolations of nature

By Alexander Hall

London

A challenging cello recital, beautifully played at Wigmore Hall

By Laurence Vittes, 14 September 2020

Philip Higham and Susan Tomes took on Beethoven, Josef Suk, Janáček, Debussy and Nadia Boulanger without missing a beat, no page turner allowed, and no intermission.

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London

15 Sep 2020

A challenging cello recital, beautifully played at Wigmore Hall

By Laurence Vittes

Cologne

Jakub Hrůša and the Czech Philharmonic bring magnificent all-Czech programme to Cologne

By Marc Haegeman, 04 March 2020

The Czech Philharmonic, in tremendous form, still play their core repertoire with unaffected naturalness.

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Cologne

06 Mar 2020

Hrůša and the Czech Phil bring magnificent programme to Cologne

By Marc Haegeman

Berlin

Searing Suk: Petrenko conducts the Asrael Symphony in Berlin

By Hugo Shirley, 09 January 2020

Kirill Petrenko and the Berliner Philharmoniker are superb in Suk's massive symphony, but Barenboim's Beethoven fails to coalesce.

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Berlin

10 Jan 2020

Searing Suk: Petrenko conducts the Asrael Symphony in Berlin

By Hugo Shirley

London

Hough and Isserlis in a heavyweight programme at Wigmore Hall

By Chris Garlick, 03 December 2019

The opening of Stephen Hough's Brahms residency at Wigmore Hall has mixed results.

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London

04 Dec 2019

Hough and Isserlis in a heavyweight programme at Wigmore Hall

By Chris Garlick

London

Emotional sinews stretched in Czech masterpieces with Gardiner and the LSO

By Mark Thomas, 24 October 2019

Truls Mørk was cultured and intense in Dvořák’s Cello Concerto while Sir John Eliot Gardiner took the LSO through its paces in Suk’s emotional beast of a symphony.

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London

25 Oct 2019

Emotional sinews stretched with Gardiner and the LSO

By Mark Thomas

Sheffield

Czech fare from the Wihan Quartet at Bradfield Festival

By Steve Draper, 27 June 2019

The Wihan Quartet reinforce their reputation as top interpreters of Dvořák at the Bradfield Festival.

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Sheffield

29 Jun 2019

Czech fare from the Wihan Quartet at Bradfield Festival

By Steve Draper

Cleveland

Jakub Hrůša leads Suk's monumental Asrael Symphony with The Cleveland Orchestra

By Timothy Robson, 07 April 2018

Suk's five-movement "dance of death" gets a rare Cleveland outing under guest conductor Jakub Hrůša after Sergey Khachatryan performed Brahms' Violin Concerto.

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Cleveland

09 Apr 2018

Suk's monumental Asrael Symphony in Cleveland

By Timothy Robson

London

Prom 56: Jakub Hrůša raises Czech music to celestial Bohemian heights

By Sophia Lambton, 26 August 2017

The effervescent conductor took six little-known Czech works into another ether: one in which the footprints are invisible.

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London

28 Aug 2017

Raising Czech music to celestial Bohemian heights

By Sophia Lambton

London

Joshua Bell and friends in Czech chamber music at Wigmore Hall

By George Slater-Walker, 20 May 2015

Joshua Bell and other musical heavyweights fail to impress in an evening of Czech chamber works well-known and otherwise.

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London

22 May 2015

Joshua Bell and friends in Czech chamber music

By George Slater-Walker

Vienna

Stratos Quartett brings youthful, polished vigor to the Gläserner Saal in Vienna

By Chanda VanderHart, 29 April 2015

Technical proficiency and brilliant clarity prevailed in the Stratos Quartett's recital, without ever feeling staid or over-cautious.

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Vienna

01 May 2015

Stratos Quartett brings youthful, polished vigor to Vienna

By Chanda VanderHart

London

Familiar Dvořák, unfamilar Suk from Hrůša and the Philharmonia

By David Karlin, 15 May 2014

The last of the Philharmonia’s “Bohemian Legends” series paired an extremely familiar work – Dvořák’s Cello Concerto – with an extremely unfamiliar one: Josef Suk’s Asrael Symphony. In spite of some uneven orchestral playing, the concert showed off the best points of both works.

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London

16 May 2014

Familiar Dvořák, unfamilar Suk from Hrůša and the Philharmonia

By David Karlin

London

Slavonic, dramatic, overwhelming - Janáček's Glagolitic Mass at the Royal Festival Hall

By David Karlin, 13 April 2014

In a concert of two halves, the Philharmonia fail to convince with Suk and Dvořák but provide a thrilling rendition of Janáček's Glagolitic Mass, a choral work that is dramatic, operatic, giant in scale and unique in style.

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London

14 Apr 2014

Slavonic, dramatic, overwhelming - Janáček's Glagolitic Mass at the Royal Festival Hall

By David Karlin

London

Jakub Hrůša conducts the Philharmonia in Czech masterworks

By Chris Garlick, 10 April 2014

As part of the short series of concerts curated by Jakub Hrůša, Bohemian Legends,focusing on Czech music from its golden era 1850 – 1950 and featuring three of its greatest masters (Dvořák, Janáček and Suk), the Philharmonia treated us to a collection of almost excessively rousing works.

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London

11 Apr 2014

Jakub Hrůša conducts the Philharmonia in Czech masterworks

By Chris Garlick

Dundee

Love and War in Bohemia with the Scottish Ensemble and Sophie Harmsen.

By David Smythe, 22 February 2014

Love and War in Bohemia, with rising star mezzo Sophie Harmsen, an engaging evening of light and darkness, and a study of composer pupils with famous masters.

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Dundee

24 Feb 2014

Love and War in Bohemia with the Scottish Ensemble and Sophie Harmsen.

By David Smythe

New York City

Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center musicians perform Bliss, Szymanowski, and Suk

By Lydia Brown, 24 October 2013

On Thursday evening, the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center presented its inaugural concert of the 2013-2014 Late Night Rose series. On the stage of Lincoln Center’s Daniel and Joanna S. Rose Studio, performers put on a delightfully curated show, featuring the works of three lesser-known Western composers: Arthur Bliss, Karol Szymanowski, and Josef Suk.

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New York City

28 Oct 2013

Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center musicians perform Bliss, Szymanowski, and Suk

By Lydia Brown

Beckenham

Bromley Symphony Orchestra make Bruckner 8 big in Beckenham

By Ken Ward, 16 March 2013

Conductor Adrian Brown began his introduction telling us of how he’d loved Bruckner since he was a teenager, and then went on to say that Bruckner’s symphonies were like “cathedrals in sound”. I confess to closing my eyes in jaded exasperation.

Beckenham

26 Mar 2013

Bromley Symphony Orchestra make Bruckner 8 big in Beckenham

By Ken Ward

London

Prom 76: A very special Last Night

By Max Woods, 08 September 2012

The Last Night of the Proms isn’t really a concert at all; it’s two very different concerts put on one after the other. The first is something like what we’re used to from a Prom, with big-name soloists performing alongside the BBC Symphony Orchestra and the BBC Symphony Chorus in world premières and classic works from the repertoire.

London

11 Sep 2012

Prom 76: A very special Last Night

By Max Woods