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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, ...

During their week-long tour of Western Europe the Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra, with conductor Vladimír Válek and soloist Jan Simon, gave a concert on Wednesday ...

The Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra - Jan Kučera's starting point, journey and destination At the orchestra's concerts he sometimes conducts, sometimes takes a ...

THE CELLO CANTILENA AND RADIANCE OF THE VIOLINS The Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra gave another of its subscription concerts, held in the Dvořák Hall on 3 November...

(...) There are not many good recordings of Martinů's symphonies, and I am therefore very glad that I have this opportunity to acquaint readers with Supraphon's t...

FROM MERRIMENT THROUGH MOURNING TO RADIANT CELEBRATION The Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra, which made a guest appearance in the Graf Zeppelin House on Thursd...

DVOŘÁK REQUIEM TOPS THE SEASON One of the highlights of the Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra's subscription season, which was recently brought to a close, was undoub...

At the opening concert of its 83rd season the PRSO will perform Martinů's Symphony No. 1 and Dvořák's Cello Concerto in B minor, conducted by Vladimír Válek with Mi...