David Vaughan

Today we look at some very diverse recordings - from a 17th century hymnal, to a marvelous - but hard to find - CD of Martinu and Brahms by one of the Czech Republic's…

As in many countries around the world, Friday 8th April was declared a day of mourning in the Czech Republic. It is a sign of just how important the pope's legacy was felt…

Antonin Dvorak's Stabat Mater has to be one of the most beautiful and most moving pieces of music ever to come out of the Czech lands. The text is a devotional poem…

The ice hockey Extraliga play-offs have reached the semi-final stage - but the two big Prague clubs are conspicuously absent; cross-country skier Katerina Neumannova…

On the 8th May 1945 Prague was the last city in Europe to be liberated, a painful irony given that six years earlier, in March 1939, it had also been the first foreign…

A new CD has been released of an undeservedly forgotten Czech opera from the 1920s; we also find out what gives Janacek's piano its very particular sound, and there's a…