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

Jakub Hrůša puts a fresh face on two 20th-century milestones, with fiery support from Leonidas Kavakos.

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

Dvořák’s rarely heard Fourth Symphony and Janáček’s brassy Sinfonietta bookended a Mozart piano concerto with Yefim Bronfman in this varied Cleveland Orchestra program.

In a typically ambitious programme, Vladimir Jurowski and the London Philharmonic Orchestra explored how four Czech composers responded to imprisonment, exile and renewal.

Festive Janáček and energetically fresh Sibelius from Rattle and the LSO, with impressive focus and intensity from Janine Jansen in Szymanowski's sensuous Violin Concerto no. 1.

There was a tingle to this concert, as if musicians and audience alike saw clearly for the first time what riches lie ahead.

Rattle excels in Dvořák and Janáček, but his rehabilitation of Bernstein stalls.

The venerable festival recaps and renews 100 years of Czechoslovak music with an outsized flourish from Slovak Philharmonic.

BBC Philharmonic and Edward Gardner tackle Janáček’s Sinfonietta in a well-crafted programme of French and Czech music.

The BBC Symphony Orchestra was on great form in an exciting evening comprising a concerto and three symphonic works.

A pair of desk partners exchanged broad grins, and a lone cellist savoured the moment with closed eyes. One violinist could be seen proudly gazing at the scene around him.

Maestro Leon Botstein and the American Symphony Orchestra examined Leoš Janáček’s Sinfonietta as part of their "Classics Declassified" series with a performance that enhanced the concert experience through intellectual guidance.

In the acoustic wizardry that is Concertgebouw Brugge, Jos van Immerseel and Anima Eterna deliver a feast for the intellect, if not for the senses, in their exploration of the great Czech composers.

The Czech Phil's all-Czech programme showed them off in resplendent form.

Fiery Janáček and Lalo tempered by autumnal Brahms in Sydney in a concert which turned the usual structure on its head. 

Two Eastern European masterpieces were given gripping readings by the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra under Edward Gardner.

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.

A few nights after the Berliner Philharmoniker brought us Janáček’s late masterpiece, the Glagolitic Mass, the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin and conductor Tugan Sokhiev took the stage with his other great work from the same year, 1926: the Sinfonietta, Op. 60, which originally appeared with the modifier “Military”.

Wednesday night’s Prom saw the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra and their principal conductor Kirill Karabits give the fourth instalment of the season’s Tchaikovsky symphony cycle with the sunny, confident Third, in D major. As the programme noted, the D major symphony is somewhat hard to place between the folksy, popular appeal of the first two and the high psychological drama of nos. 4–6.

Juanjo Mena concluded his season-long exploration of Stravinsky ballets with a sharp account of the most famous, The Rite of Spring, as part of a programme of unusually grand proportions.It was a hundred years ago this month that the Rite received its première in Paris.

The solo violin repertoire is rich; from Bach to Bartók and beyond, the instrument has an enviable catalogue of impressive works. Prokofiev’s principal contribution to the solo violinist’s career consists of two sonatas (one also favoured amongst flautists), and two concerti. However, in 1947, Prokofiev was commissioned to write a piece for 20 or 30 talented student violinists playing in unison.

Thursday night’s BBC Proms was a celebration of Sibelius, Bartók and Janáček, composers who mastered the classical music tradition and put their home countries on the map.Summoning images of the Finnish countryside, Scènes historiques, Suite No. 2 displayed a range of orchestral colours.

Concierto de excelente confección en el Thomas Adès dirigió obras propias y de Janáček, ofreciendo una lección en torno a su música y la de un autor por el que siente especial atracción.

La Orquestra de València manejó la singularidad de las composiciones de Francisco Coll en un programa que jugaba con el enfrentamiento entre realidad y ensoñación.

Le programme choisi par Sir George Benjamin pour le DSO nous plonge dans les théories modernes de l’utilisation du son orchestral, de Paul Dukas à Benjamin lui-même, avec le concours efficace de Cédric Tiberghien.

El programa, dirigido por Juanjo Mena ofreció dos maneras de estar al mundo y dos formas muy distintas (y distantes) de pronunciar ese Adiós a las armas, en lo que debiera parecer el ocaso de Europa después de la Primera Guerra Mundial.

Placé sous le signe des célébrations du centenaire de l'indépendance du pays, le festival « Les touches tchèques de la musique » s'est achevé ce dimanche sur un concert mettant à l'honneur la violoncelliste Camille Thomas.

El segundo concierto de Sir Simon Rattle y la London Symphony en el Festival de Santander estuvo conformado por un programa fuertemente vinculado con la velada previa. Mahler, Dvorak y Janacek son tres compositores cuyas fechas y localidades de nacimiento están respectivamente separadas en el tiempo y en la distancia por menos de dos décadas y 300 kilómetros.

Schumanns Violinkonzert ist ein Werk, dem ein Ehrenplatz unter den ganz großen Konzerten des 19. Jahrhunderts gebührt, das den Vergleich mit demjenigen von Brahms nicht zu scheuen braucht.

L'Orchestre de Paris sous la direction du chef slovaque Juraj Valčuha nous offre un programme original autour d'un Bartók plutôt timide, d'un Prokofiev admirable de poésie (avec le violoniste Vadim Gluzman) et d'un Janáček luxuriant.