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Tag:Year of Czech Music 2024
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Václav Luks © Petra Hajská

A Baroque revolutionary: Václav Luks on Jan Dismas Zelenka’s Miserere

Par Bachtrack, 18 octobre 2024
The director of Collegium 1704 talks about Zelenka, the greatest Czech Baroque composer, and his uniquely bold and distinctive approach composition – which still has the capacity to shock and overwhelm today.
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Václav Luks © Petra Hajská
18 oct. 2024
Zelenka’s Miserere: A Baroque revolutionary
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Antonín Dvořák in 1882 © Public domain

Bachtrack top ten: Antonín Dvořák

Par Mark Pullinger, 08 septembre 2024
Johannes Brahms was a big supporter of Antonín Dvořák and justly so, for the Czech master, who made it big in America, composed music full of bucolic good humour and Romantic richness. 
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Antonín Dvořák in 1882 © Public domain
08 sept. 2024
Bachtrack top ten: Antonín Dvořák
Par Mark Pullinger
Vítězslava Kaprálová (1915–1940) © Photo courtesy of The Kapralova Society

Maliciously witty: the music of Vítězslava Kaprálová

Par Bachtrack, 19 juillet 2024
The Czech composer and conductor Vítězslava Kaprálová demonstrated astonishing musical gifts, creating stylish and surprising music in almost every genre, before a tragic early death at the age of 25.
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Vítězslava Kaprálová (1915–1940) © Photo courtesy of The Kapralova Society
19 juil. 2024
Maliciously witty: the music of Vítězslava Kaprálová
Par Bachtrack
Prague Philharmonic Choir and the Czech Philharmonic © Prague Philharmonic Choir

Wild, furious, eternal: Daniela Valtová Kosinová on Janáček’s Glagolitic Mass

Par Bachtrack, 15 juillet 2024
One of Janáček’s greatest works, the Glagolitic Mass sets Old Church Slavonic in the composer’s inimitable melodic style. Organist Daniela Kosinová talks about this unique piece – and its fearsome organ solo.
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Prague Philharmonic Choir and the Czech Philharmonic © Prague Philharmonic Choir
15 juil. 2024
Janáček’s Glagolitic Mass: Wild, furious, eternal
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Leoš Janáček © Public domain

Bachtrack top ten: Leoš Janáček

Par Mark Pullinger, 03 juillet 2024
Janáček was heavily influenced by folk music and speech inflections of his native Moravia. The vast majority of his greatest works come from his final decade, inspired by his infatuation with Kamila Stösslová.
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Leoš Janáček © Public domain
03 juil. 2024
Bachtrack top ten: Leoš Janáček
Par Mark Pullinger
Libuše at Prague National Theatre, 2018 © Hana Smejkalová

Prophet and mother to the Czechs: Mária Porubčinová on Smetana’s Libuše

Par Bachtrack, 13 juin 2024
A festive opera of pomp and pageantry, Smetana’s Libuše forms a central place in the Czech musical and national imagination. Soprano Mária Porubčinová talks about taking on the unique leading role.
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Libuše at Prague National Theatre, 2018 © Hana Smejkalová
13 juin 2024
Smetana’s Libuše: Prophet and mother to the Czechs
Par Bachtrack
Juliette at the Prague National Theatre in 2018 © National Theatre Prague

Diving into logic of dreams: Bohuslav Martinů’s Julietta

Par Bachtrack, 24 avril 2024
Dramaturg Aleš Březina explores Bohuslav Martinů’s unique operatic forey into the world of dreams, which combined avant garde surrealism with a wide array Czech musical influences.
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Juliette at the Prague National Theatre in 2018 © National Theatre Prague
24 avril 2024
Martinů’s Julietta: The logic of dreams
Par Bachtrack
Bohuslav Martinů © Public domain

Bachtrack top ten: Bohuslav Martinů

Par Mark Pullinger, 05 avril 2024
Bohuslav Martinů was a true cosmopolitan: Czech, but spending much of his life in France and the United States, writing in an eclectic style that drew on many influences. 
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Bohuslav Martinů © Public domain
05 avril 2024
Bachtrack top ten: Bohuslav Martinů
Par Mark Pullinger
Bedřich Smetana, portrait by Geskel Saloman (1854) © Public domain

Bachtrack top ten: Bedřich Smetana

Par Mark Pullinger, 02 mars 2024
The father of Czech music, Bedřich Smetana was born 200 years ago. We celebrate his bicentenary by exploring his works, from the popular Má vlast to less-heard piano music. 
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Bedřich Smetana, portrait by Geskel Saloman (1854) © Public domain
02 mars 2024
Bachtrack top ten: Bedřich Smetana
Par Mark Pullinger
Jakub Klecker © Serghei Gherciu

An end to death: Viktor Ullmann’s The Emperor of Atlantis

Par Bachtrack, 16 février 2024
Written while the composer was imprisoned in the Theresienstadt ghetto, Viktor Ullmann’s powerful opera imagines an end to death.
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Jakub Klecker © Serghei Gherciu
16 févr. 2024
Ullmann’s The Emperor of Atlantis: An end to death
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The Bartered Bride at Ostrava © Martin Popelář

The forefather of Czech opera: Ostrava’s complete Smetana cycle

Par Gianmarco Segato, 25 janvier 2024
Bedřich Smetana was the fountainhead of the national school of Czech composition – and this year all eight of his operas will be ambitiously presented by the National Moravian-Silesian Theatre.
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The Bartered Bride at Ostrava © Martin Popelář
25 janv. 2024
The forefather of Czech opera: Ostrava’s complete Smetana cycle
Par Gianmarco Segato