Czech Music Greats
2024 is the Year of Czech Music, a celebration held once a decade, on every year that ends on the number four, a number that marks many Czech music anniversaries. To mark the occasion Radio Prague International has prepared a video series paying tribute to some of the country’s renowned composers, Antonín Dvořák, Bedřich Smetana, Leoš Janáček and others.
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Czech Music Greats
Leoš Janáček's Taras Bulba
This episode of Czech Music Greats looks at the unique genius of Leoš Janáček, through his 1915-18 rhapsody for orchestra Taras Bulba.
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Czech Music Greats
Josef Mysliveček's Sonata No. 5 in A major: I. Allegro, II. Minuetto.
This episode of Czech Music Greats shines a light on a lesser-known Czech classical composer: Josef Mysliveček, a friend to Mozart and known in Italy as 'Il Boemo'.
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Czech Music Greats
Antonín Dvořák’s SYMPHONY NO. 5 in F major
In this part of our video series on Czech Music Greats, we return once again to one of the best-known names in Czech classical music - Antonín Dvořák.
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Czech Music Greats
The inspirational 20th century Czech composer Vítězslava Kaprálová and her April Preludes
The eighth part of our video series Czech Music Greats is devoted to Vítězslava Kaprálová, a hugely talented Czech composer and conductor, who died at the age of just 25.
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Czech Music Greats
My Homeland - symphonic poem to Czech nation
The seventh part of our video series on Czech Music Greats is devoted to the cycle of symphonic poems My Homeland by Bedřich Smetana.
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Czech Music Greats
“Czech Bach” Jan Dismas Zelenka
The third part of our video series on Czech Music Greats is devoted to the work of Jan Dismas Zelenka, known as the “Czech Bach”.
