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 ...

In May 1916 Czech composer Leos Janacek was preparing to go to a spa for some well-deserved R&R when he happened to read a group of anonymous poems published in a local newspaper. The verses told the ...

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 ...

Leos Janacek shares his love of the part of Bohemia where he grew up with his Lachian Dances. We'll enjoy them during our music today, beginning at 9 a.m. on 91.1 and 107.5 FM and our music stream.

Janáček’s knotty operatic masterpiece has finally arrived at the Royal Opera House – and for that we should be thankful. The Makropulos Case isn’t performed that often, partly because it’s such a ...

Czech composer Leos Janacek created a love duet for cello and piano and called it "Pohadka," or "Fairy Tale." And though Janacek was proud of his Czech heritage and based many of his works on folk ...

Des Moines Metro Opera has become one of the country’s most successful smaller companies doing adventurous repertory in a 467-seat space. By Zachary Woolfe I love the operas of Leos Janacek. So do ...