(Viktoria Postnikova, piano; Orchestre de Paris members, Gennady Rozhdestvensky, conductor; Erato). Janacek: Piano music: Sonata, ”In the Mist,” ”A Recollection ...

We take you into the heart of Belgrade to hear the Belgrade Radio-Television Symphony play a pair of light-hearted dances by Leos Janacek. They're called "Kozacel," and "Serbian Kolo." Christian ...

You don't turn on Janacek for lively dances or lilting melodies ... The staccato rhythms of the Moravian dialect had as much a part to play in his creativity as the songs that were sung.

The Lachian and Moravian Dances celebrate vanished traditions, while his orchestral rhapsody on Taras Bulba depicts the violent life of the Cossack leader, Following hot on the heels of his Wit ...

Yenufa is an outstanding phenomenon in the music of the 20th century Drawing on Moravian folklore Janáček faithfully and deeply conveyed the drama of a peasant girl The composer followed the ...

Claus Guth’s Royal Opera production of Janacek’s Jenufa was scheduled ... of Teutonic stylisation as taking place in a remote Moravian village 100 years ago. There is no sense of time or ...