Regarding Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim's "Sinfonietta (1926) by Leos Janacek: Fanfares in the Face of Fascism" (Masterpiece, Oct. 29): "Thank God," was my thought, punctuating my delight, to see the ...

GIVE your system a bit of a jolt and try this: I was electrified. Can I give the highest recognition to this latest disc by Belgian band Anima Eterna, with performances of Dvorak’s New World Symphony, ...

No one who heard young Charlie Mackerras conduct Kát’a Kabanová at Sadler’s Wells in 1951 is likely to have forgotten the occasion, for most of us a revelation of a composer of whom we knew little.

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 ...

Leos Janacek's orchestral masterpiece Sinfonietta arrived last on the scene in the Toronto Symphony Orchestra's concert and rescued it from the doldrums. An earthbound performance of Prokofiev's ...

Sinfonietta Leoš Janáček, Composer Charles Mackerras, Conductor Pro Arte Orchestra From the House of the Dead, Movements: Prelude Charles Mackerras, Conductor Pro Arte Orchestra Leoš Janáček, Composer ...

BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Edward Gardner live at the BBC Proms. Britten, Janacek, Nielsen's Flute Concerto with Emily Beynon and a world premiere of Raymond Yiu's Symphony. Live from the ...

When Leos Janacek was 63 years old, he met the beautiful 26-year-old wife of an antique dealer. Over the course of a decade he fell in love with her, and those feelings inspired much of his music, ...