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Interview: Angela Hewitt: “Glenn Gould and I have little in common.”

Your father Godfrey Hewitt was a choirmaster in the Christ Church Cathedral in Ottawa. How did his function and mission affect your relationship to music and your musical focus? How

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I’m closing the circle – as an American, I’ll be presenting Korngold in his native Moravia, says Joshua Brown

The Lednice-Valtice Music Festival will welcome on October 18, 2025, a violinist hailed as one of the most remarkable talents of his generation. Joshua Brown, still at the beginning of

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Interview: Fascination with Wagner: Jiří Vejvoda and Andreas Schager

Music journalist Jiří Vejvoda and tenor Andreas Schager met at the National Theater in Prague to talk about the State Opera's new project, Fascination with Wagner, and their relationship with

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“I see myself as just an interpreter; the true artist is the composer,” says Mahan Esfahani

In the production of the Czech Chamber Music Association, one of Johann Sebastian Bach's iconic works, the first book of The Well-Tempered Clavier, will be played on Wednesday, October 29th

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Opera PLUS Retro No. 2: Heřma Žárská – A Forgotten Czech Star At The MET (AUDIO)

During the first two decades of the 20th century, as recording technology gradually took off, Rusalka’s Song to the moon was by far the most common Czech opera recording, with

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Centenary of the legendary Czech composer Ilja Hurník: “Musical idea was a priority for him”, says his son Lukáš

25 November 2022 marked the centenary of the birth of composer, pianist and teacher Ilya Hurnik. Together with the jubilant's son Lukáš we tried to look "behind" the dictionary entry

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