The famous Serenade for Strings by Dvorak was the inspiration for string orchestra music by one of his Czech successors, Leos Janacek. From a concert in Portland, Ore., Chamber Orchestra Kremlin plays ...

As Leos Janacek composed dramatic music for the stage, he had plenty of inner drama to reckon with. His suite "On an Overgrown Path" is like a diary the composer kept after his young daughter died.