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Jay Nordlinger on the Miró Quartet, American Ballet Theatre’s Romeo and Juliet & Teatro Nuovo’s Poliuto.

MBW's Trailblazers series interviews Martin Kudla, Deputy Director and Digital Marketing Manager at Czech record label SUPRAPHON…

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A sublime new recording by Stephen Hough teases out the bel-canto beauty of the celebrated cycle.

Martin Turnovsky, Czech conductor who frequently found himself in conflict with the authorities – obituary Regarded as unreliable by the communist regime, at first he was banned from leaving the country, then later banned from returning Martin Turnovsky Martin Turnovsky, who has died aged 92, was an old-school Czech conductor known for his good taste, sound scholarship and decent manners. The communist regime, however, regarded him as unreliable and for several years he was not permitted to l...

(5 out of 5 stars) "Ivan Moravec worked with Michelangeli and has an eclectic brand of pianism marked by stringent musicianship without the severity of the German school and a natural elegance without the tonal shallowness of the French school. With his scherzos Chopin again presented us with a family group of four, but this time the resemblances are much more clearly marked, the significant one being the simplicity of their design. In the performances given by Moravec the simplicity is always...