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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
Sunday Music ShowA tribute to composer Ladislav Simon
Last Thursday, Czech Radio lost one of its most esteemed colleagues and the
Czech Republic one of the major figures in modern music with the death of
Ladislav Simon at the age of 82. His music has been a staple of television,
radio and contemporary classical music for more than half a century and he
was tirelessly involved in the artistic management of some of the
country’s leading cultural institutions, such as the National Theatre,
and the founding of Czech Television and the Prague Philharmonia. More
Current AffairsClassical music fans descend on capital for 66th Prague Spring festival
Classical music fans are gearing up for one of the most prestigious events
in the cultural calendar – the Prague Spring International Music
Festival, which gets underway on Thursday evening. Founded in 1946, as a
newly-liberated Czechoslovakia was emerging from six years of war and Nazi
occupation, the festival has survived communist dictatorship and the
commercial pressures of capitalism to remain the country’s preeminent
classical music festival. More
Sunday Music ShowSunday Music Show
This week’s Sunday music broadcast we present the work of František
Ignác Tůma, a Czech composer of the late Baroque era who wrote some of
the most inventive music of the period. More
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