On this two-CD set from Cologne-based CAvi-music, Luxembourg pianist Cathy Krier plays the "Variations for Zdenka" (1880), the "Moravian Dances" (1888-1889), and the "Album for Kamila Stösslová ...

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 ...

Daniel Slater directs Czech composer Janacek's 1924 comic opera, which was inspired by a comic strip and incorporates Moravian folk ... while the dance routines further diffuse the dramatic ...

The set includes On an Overgrown Path, Moravian dances and folksongs ... "What I really love about Janacek's music are the changes of characters and atmospheres in once piece," says Krier ...

No opera composer has ever rivalled Leos Janacek in his ability to put colloquial language on the musical stage. “I secretly listened to the speech of passers-by,” this Moravian composer wrote ...

But that is what is so fascinating about Janácek's life: the contrast between the touchy Moravian choirmaster, incapable of realising what a prat he made of himself in public, and the towering ...

Leos Janacek In all the political turmoil that has surrounded the city of Belgrade in the past 20 years, there has been at least one musical constant. We take you into the heart of Belgrade to ...

The long drought is over. With next week's production of "Jenufa," and additional projects set for the next two seasons, the works of Leos Janacek, perhaps the most singularly moving legacy of ...