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 ...

Daniel Slater directs Czech composer Janacek's 1924 comic opera, which was inspired by a comic strip and incorporates Moravian folk music. It tells the story of a forester who takes a wild vixen ...

The Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Antoni Wit present a programme of music by Janácek drawing inspiration from his native folk music. The Lachian and Moravian Dances celebrate ...

The set includes On an Overgrown Path, Moravian dances and folksongs, Variations for Zdenka, In the Mists, and the Piano Sonata, among other works.

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 ...

Virtually everything about Janacek's career was unorthodox. Music's greatest late bloomer, he was 50 when "Jenufa," his first mature opera, was premiered in the Moravian city of Brno.

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 ...