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Týdeník Rozhlas, April 2011 Jana Smékalová, journalist

This exceptional performer, whose musical career is dotted with various precious trophies, is also a great lover of nature and mathematics. During our interview I p...

This outstanding and distinctive member of the Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra is going to appear as a soloist during the concert on the 2nd of May. Let’s get to kn...

On April 20th, 2011 the Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra and conductor Tomáš Hanus meet on the same stage for only the second time. On the occasion of that concert,...

Visitors to the State Opera in Prague on March 18th will have seen a performance of Puccini’s La Bohème conducted by Ondrej Lenárd. That same day we met the conduct...

On March 21st two young artists will meet on the same stage. As will become clear in the lines below, despite their young age they have known one another for quite ...

...which was prepared some time in advance. When the conductor had not replied after three weeks, I started to have doubts as to whether he ever would send answers ...

The Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra has hired Ronald Zollman as Principal Guest Conductor, starting from the 2011/2012 concert season.

On Thursday 20 January 2011, Smetana Hall in Prague’s Obecní dům will be hosting top bass-baritone of Welsh origin Bryn Terfel. In a programme entitled “Bad Boys” h...

Starting 8 p.m. on 8 January 2011, Czech public television station ČT2 will be broadcasting a recording of the Smetana Gala concert, which took place on 7 December ...

František Novotný has won acclaim not only for his perfect interpretation of the traditional repertoire, but also for his efforts to present lesser known or even un...

…which took place in the middle of December, when the musician took part in an interesting international project in snowy Munich and still found time for my questio...

On Monday 22 November 2010 the interim director of Czech Radio Mgr. Peter Duhan and conductor Ondrej Lenárd signed a contract on the appointment of this distinctive...

On Tuesday 7 December at 7.30pm the Congress Hall in the Congress Centre will host a concert featuring the most famous works by the Czech composer revered as the cr...

Pavel Šporcl will be performing in Obecní dům on Tuesday 30 November as part of the concert tour Tribute to the Masters, which takes in concerts in Plzeň, České Bud...

Audiences, listeners and fans of classical music who regularly follow the programmes put together by the Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra will certainly have noticed...

The harp is an instrument known even to the ancient Egyptians… Its earliest depictions are documented from a period around the year 2700 B.C., and it is mentioned m...

At a gala evening in the Vladislav Hall to mark the 92nd anniversary of the founding of Czechoslovakia, 22 prominent Czechs were decorated by Václav Klaus. They inc...

On 12 October in the Rudolfinum's Dvořák Hall, the first of six concerts will take place as part of this year's Radio Autumn (12 – 16 October 2010). The Prague Radi...

A stately brand of "Homeland" The Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra, under its Chief Conductor Vladimír Válek, made a guest appearance in the Stephaniensaal in Graz, ...