So I was asked to write about my three favourite composers for this little column. Last week was my serious numero uno Peter Sculthorpe, next week it’s Stuart Greenbaum (what a beautiful soul that man ...

In the late 1950s, Bohuslav Martinů (1890-1959) turned his mind to Moravian folk poetry – images of the Czech highlands where he grew up – and wrote four little cantatas with wistful names such as ...

ANNANDALE-ON-HUDSON, N.Y. — The SummerScape music festival is set to return to Bard College’s Fisher Center from Friday, June 27, to Sunday, Aug. 17, according to an announcement. The festival, in its ...

Since its foundation in 1995, the Festival's aim is to make the work of the Czech composer Bohuslav Martinu known to a larger audience. The Festival attracts top-class performers to Basel every year ...

The Czech composer’s meditations on Piero’s Arezzo frescoes are among the fascinating works on this rewarding disc Bohuslav Martinů spent much of the last decade of his life commuting across the ...

This season Mannes will celebrate Czech composer Bohuslav Martinů, one of the most important voices of the 20th century, and an influential Mannes faculty member from 1948 to 1956. As the 80th ...

The ever-industrious Bohuslav Martinů never seems to have allowed himself a day off. Other composers of his time were trying their hands at the form of the double concerto, but only Martinů could have ...

ANNANDALE-ON-HUDSON - This August, the Bard Music Festival returns with an intensive two-week exploration of “Martinů and His World.” In 11 themed concerts featuring its boldest and most adventurous ...

After his celebrated work on Reimann's Lear and Cherubini's Médée, Simon Stone's new staging at the 2023 Salzburg Festival dramatizes nothing less than the story of Christ. Guided by Stone's artistic ...

Anniversaries seem to be cornerstones of concert programming these days and there is a plentiful supply of composers’ birth and death days to keep concert managers busy during 2009. Next year sees ...

The story of a composer who always enjoyed a close relationship with the record industry The writer and broadcaster Patrick Lambert is giving a talk on Bohuslav Martinů at the Embassy of the Slovak ...