Over three nights, the Czech Philharmonic presented Dvorak’s concertos and more, including a rare performance of Janacek’s “Glagolitic Mass.” By Joshua Barone Our critics and writers have selected ...

At age 63, Czech composer Leos Janacek began his most unusual writing project: a constant stream of love letters, more than 700 in all, written to a married woman 37 years his junior. It's remarkable, ...

(Viktoria Postnikova, piano; Orchestre de Paris members, Gennady Rozhdestvensky, conductor; Erato). Janacek: Piano music: Sonata, ”In the Mist,” ”A Recollection ...

SOUTHBURY, Conn. — Theater, film and opera will be added to the 14th annual Bard Music Festival at Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, N.Y., to create the inaugural season of Bard Summerscape, July ...

Czech Composer Leos Janacek was 40 when he started his masterpiece, the opera Jenufa. He was close to 50 when he finished the work and past 60 before he found an audience that could appreciate it. In ...

The long drought is over. With next week's production of "Jenufa," and additional projects set for the next two seasons, the works of Leos Janacek, perhaps the most singularly moving legacy of 20th ...

Leos Janácek's Sinfonietta and Glagolitic Mass and operas ranging from "Jenufa" to "The Makropoulos Case" are well established in the classical repertoire. But his piano music needs more advocates. On ...

The Czech master Leos Janácek (1854-1928) was recently the focus of Houston Grand Opera's production of The Makropulos Case, the haunting story of a centuries-old diva who tries to seize the potion ...

Our critics and writers have selected noteworthy cultural events to experience virtually and in person in New York City. Our critics and writers have selected noteworthy cultural events to experience ...

Tom Manoff has a review of a new CD of piano music by Leos Janacek, a Czech composer who lived and composed in the late 1800s and early 1900s. It's called Leos Janacek, A Recollection. Janacek was ...