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Hard rock headliners Kabát
In today’s programme we feature music by the hard rock and thrashmetal
group Kabát, who have left a Godzilla-sized footprint on the Czech music
scene. To date, the band headed by charismatic frontman Pepa Vojtek, has
sold hundreds of thousands of albums and remains a major draw for fans of
heavier music. More
Pavel Bobek - a Czech country legend
In this edition of Sunday Music Show, we listen to some of the big hits of
Pavel Bobek - one of the country's most popular country and rock'n roll
singers. More
Už Jsme Doma
In today’s edition of our Sunday Music Show we listen to more than 20
years of “avant-punk” band Už Jsme Doma. Though the band has gone
through countless transformations in that time, it still remains one of the
most innovative sounds on the Czech music scene and a heavy influence for
new generations of Czech artists. More
Prague celebrates the Art of Hard Rock
Hard Rock Café is celebrating its 40th birthday this year with a
travelling exhibition of memorabilia relating to the greats of the music
world who frequented its many outlets the world over. Entitled The Art of
Hard Rock the exhibition, which opens to the Prague public on January 12th
at the Dvorak sec contemporary art gallery in Dlouha street, is a
collection of musical instruments, paintings and drawings donated by the
likes of Jim Morrison, Eric Clapton, Michael Jackson, Frank Zappa, Pete
Towshend, Roger Daltrey, John Entwistle, Paul Stanley, Ringo Starr, Lou
Reed and Billy Idol. More
The Czech "Scumbag X"
This week’s Sunday Music Show is devoted to a musician going by the name
of Xindl X –a musician who combines rap, folk, hip hop, jazz and blues as
the mood takes him; a musician whose lyrics are laced with irony and who
says he writes protest songs which portray a world without God, morals or
love -a world of scumbags of the generation X. More
Emil Viklický, the "Janáček of Jazz"
In today’s Sunday Music Show we look at the work of living jazz legend
Emil Viklický, for whom 2011 began with a Presidential Medal of Merit and
ended with the release of two new albums. In the second part of an
interview begun on our December 16th Arts programme, we began by asking the
pianist if he remembers the first time he ever sat down to a piano. More
Markéta Irglová and Marek Irgl: Daughter and father on her Oscar success and much more
In this special programme, we meet the Academy Award-winning musician
Markéta Irglová and, for an unusual perspective on her success, her
father, Marek Irgl. As well as the impact of her Oscar win in 2008, the
subjects discussed include Markéta’s beginnings in music, how bandmate
and ex Glen Hansard has influenced her career, the writing of “Falling
Slowly”, her new solo project, and distance and family ties. More
Carp and Carols with the Nightingales
A few days ago David Vaughan went to meet the Slavíčci – or Nightingales – one of Prague’s best-known children’s choirs. He talked to members of the choir about the rich tradition of Czech Christmas music, about why you might find yourself sharing your bath with a carp in the days before Christmas Eve, and what it’s like to sing beneath the towering Gothic vaults of Saint Vitus’ Cathedral. And, of course, the choir also brings us some of the best loved Czech carols, recorded especially for Radio Prague. That and more, in Radio Prague’s special Christmas Day programme. Happy listening. More
Ryba’s Czech Christmas Mass premieres in Chicago
It has taken more than 200 years for Jakub Jan Ryba’s Czech Christmas
Mass to come to Chicago, but it seems that good things come to those who
wait. The Ryba Mass was premiered in the Windy City on Saturday and Rosie
Johnston was there. More
Jazz legend Emil Viklický
It has been a good year for Czech jazz legend Emil Viklický, beginning
with a Presidential Medal of Merit and ending with the release of two new
albums, one in Germany called “Spring Awakening” and another in Japan,
where he plays regularly, called Kafka on the Shore, a Tribute to Haruki
Murakami. In the first part of a wide-ranging interview with the pianist we
began by talking about his English, which he told me he originally picked
up from his black fellow musicians in the 1970… More
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