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Sunday Music ShowAntonín Dvořák - a personal tribute
On this week’s Sunday Music Show we mark the birthday of Antonín
Dvořák, who would have 170 candles on his birthday cake this year.
Unfortunately he only lived to the age of 63, enjoying a career of about
four decades, but he saw the kind of success in his day that few composers
could dare to hope for. Today’s show is a personal tribute to one of the
greatest masters of Western musical history. More
Sunday Music ShowCzech opera diva Milada Šubrtová
In Sunday Music Show we look at the life and work of Czech opera diva
Milada Šubrtová who died at the age of 87 last week. The soprano, whom
many consider to have been the best Rusalka ever, was one of the lights of
the Czech opera world. With her three octave range and considerable acting
abilities she could interpret both coloratura roles and dramatic parts,
making her one of the stars of the prestigious National Theatre. More
Sunday Music ShowSunday Music Show
Today’s Sunday Music Show looks back at the work of a great Czech
musician – a man of musically royal blood – who died last week at the
age of 81: the inimitable Josef Suk, a violinist who set the standard for
how Czech classical music is played everywhere in the world. Here to paint
a picture of how the maestro was regarded at home and abroad, and to
illustrate his import to classical music, is music journalist and critic Dr
Petr Veber, who heads the department of classical music at our sister
station Vltava. More
Czech HistoryLeoš Janáček, the composer for a new republic
The first two names always given at the top of the pantheon of Czech
classical music are Antonín Dvořák and Bedřich Smetana; the third is
invariably Leoš Janáček. Probably the most innovative of the three,
Janáček likely lags behind the famous duo only because even today, 80
years after his death, musicians, musicologists and music lovers are still
reassessing those innovations, which took classical music into uncharted
territory. More
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