Composed in 1926-27, for orchestra, chorus, soloists, and organ, Janacek’s “Glagolská mse,” or “Glagolitic Mass,” is a 40-minute setting of the Latin Mass in Old Church Slavonic. It takes its name ...

Taras Bulba Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra Leoš Janáček, Composer Marek Janowski, Conductor However, Janowski takes an altogether gentler view of the work compared to the ebullient energy of Kubelík ...

(Reuters) - Charles Mackerras, a noted orchestral conductor of the world's leading orchestras, has died from cancer. He was 84. Here are a few facts on Mackerras: * EARLY LIFE: -- Alan Charles ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Critic’s Notebook Over three nights, the Czech Philharmonic presented Dvorak’s concertos and more, including a rare performance of Janacek’s ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Wit conducts his Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra and Choir in the two outstanding concert works from Janácek’s last ...

JANACEK'S mighty Glagolitic Mass was written in part as an offering to the woman with whom the 72-year-old composer was unrequitedly in love. In letters to his muse Kamila Stosslova, 38 years his ...

Leos Janacek wasn't an obvious candidate for a setting of the Mass, but the suggestion from Archbishop Precan and his own profound sense of Czech Nationalism was enough to inspire him. In 1926, during ...

This is certainly as cleanly executed a Souvenir de Florence as anyone could want, with an emphasis on inner voices here and there. One misses the passion of the Guarneri Quartet’s 1965 recording, ...