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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
Current AffairsPrague Spring Music Festival set to launch 65th year
Just a week to go and the 65th International Prague Spring Music Festival
takes to the many stages of the Czech capital. This year will see more than
60 concerts, theatre performances and other events and bring some of the
world’s best composers and musicians to Prague. And what’s more, young
performers will also about at this, one of Europe’s most important music
festivals.
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One on OneJordi Savall brings early music out of the meuseum and back to the stage
The Catalonian musician Jordi Savall has been a major force in the
promotion of early music for some forty years now and has been the key
figure in bringing some ancient instruments out of the museum and back to
the stage, particularly the viola da gamba. One of the star performers of
this year’s Prague Spring International Music Festival, Mr Savall and
his
three ensembles have recorded well over a hundred records and scored a
number of films, including the acclaimed 1995 film All the Mornings of the
World, which won him a César award, the French national film prize. I
spoke with the maestro in a magnificent rehearsal room in Prague’s
Rudolfinum concert hall where he recalled his memories of another Prague
Spring – that of 1968. More
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