Although now in his 80s, Geoffrey Chew is still writing about Czech music. I caught up with the British/South African musicologist on a recent trip to London.
Today we go back in time yet again and this time we go back 24 years, because that is when the Warsaw pact was declared as finished. But what was the pact for? Why did it…
The Czech Republic’s Mikolas Josef has advanced to the finals of the Eurovision Song Contest with his offering Lie to Me. The 22-year-old singer, who performed despite…
The 70th edition of the Prague Spring International Music Festival has just got underway. As every year, Tuesday’s opening concert at the Municipal Hall featured one of…
There's nothing Poles enjoy more than a big anniversary celebration. Part of it has to do with a turbulent history - marked by wars, foreign domination and moments of…
Antonín Dvořák’s most famous opera Rusalka is back on the stage of the Metropolitan Opera in New York. The highly anticipated production of the “lyric fairy tale” about a…
And now it's time for this week's edition of Czechs in History, and today Nick Carey looks at a recent figure in Czech history, the first wife of President Vaclav Havel…
The highly-respected alternative/electronic pop band Tata Bojs recently reissued four of their best-known albums Futuretro, Biorytmy, Nanoalbum and Kluci kde ste? complete…
Prague has seen many memorable concerts over the years by international artists and a few which were legendary. This week, American heavy metal and thrash metal band…
Janacek fever has hit the Czech Republic's second city, the Moravian capital, Brno. This year sees two major anniversaries in connection with Leos Janacek, one of the…
Asian Dub Foundation are a socially active and politically conscious young band from Britain who are - as their name suggests - of Asian origin. Their sound is an exciting…
In this series we present 100 songs which have gone down in the history of Czechoslovakia and the Czech Republic. They became widely popular, were played during important…
The Bamberg Symphony, led by Czech conductor Jakub Hrůša, has received the ICMA Prize for best symphonic music for their 2022 CD featuring a symphony by Hans Rott.
In this series we present 100 songs which have gone down in the history of Czechoslovakia and the Czech Republic. On Czech Radio’s web pages you can find a poll, in which…
Earlier this week, the Academy of Music in Prague played host to the 1st international melodrama contest, which brought together young musicians and actors from the Czech…
Vitezslav Novak is considered one of the best Czech classical music composers of the first half of the 20th century. As an old man, he described his own works in the…
Kevin Loo watched the recently released 'Karel' documentary to finally learn more about the Czech music legend.
For nearly two decades now, Debashish Chaudhuri has called Bohemia his home, while working with orchestras, both Czech and international, as a freelance or guest conductor.
Any history of Czechoslovakia’s dissident movement in the 1970s will include more than a passing reference to the writer, editor and translator Paul Wilson. Originally…
