A student of Novák, Martinů and Václav Talich, Vítězslava Kaprálová (1915‑40) might have been a leading composer of the last century had she not died of typhoid fever at the […]

The Czech composer Vítězslava Kaprálová (1915‒1940), who passed away at just 25 years old, was evidently a highly gifted composer even in her youth. She initially studied with her father, […]

(review is taken from the portal classical-music.com , July 7, 2021, author Jan Smaczny) A number of impulses draw together the orchestra-accompanied songs on this delightful recording: fin de siècle and Impressionism […]

(review is taken from the portal pizzicato.lu , August 29, 2021, author Alain Steffen) In this recording, an open and transparent sound is entirely in the service of finely polished […]

(review is taken from the portal gramophone.co.uk , August 13, 2021, author Hugo Shirley) Czech soprano Kateřina Kněžíková is clearly a singer to watch. She sang the title-role in Katya Kabanova at […]

(review is taken from the portal MusicWeb International, July 7, 2021, author David R Dunsmore) This CD of contrasting works emanating from key periods in Shostakovich’s career is already garlanded with […]

(review is taken from the portal MusicWeb International, June 23, 2021, author David McDade) The three works on this disc give us three different versions of Shostakovich: the First piano […]

(review is taken from the portal MusicWeb International, June 6, 2021, author Colin C.F. Chow) For an artist so deeply affected by the political climate around him, and especially for […]

(review is taken from the portal Klasikaplus.cz, September 12, 2020, author Karla Hofmannová) The new music season still has the aftertaste of coronavirus as it is necessary to wear face […]

(review is taken from the portal KlasikaPlus.cz, author Milan Bátor, photo by Ivan Korč, October 8, 2020) The Janáček Philharmonic Orchestra Ostrava performed in Opava on Wednesday. The St. Wenceslas Church is […]