Classical Music

Classical Music

Classical Music

Classical Music

Classical Music

Classical Music

Classical Music

Classical Music

Classical Music

Czech guitarist Tomás Honek (b. 1985) studied in parallel at the Janácek Academy in Brno with Martin Myslivecek and Vladislav Blaha. He has won awards at home, as well as abroad, notably a 3rd prize at the 2003 Guitarart Festival International Competition in Belgrade (Serbia). Slovak violinist Lucia Kopsová’s has appeared as a soloist with several orchestras including the Slovak Philharmonic and the Moravian Philharmonic Olomouc. In the summer of 2006 she took part in a tour as a member of the EU Youth Orchestra conducted by Vladimir Ashkenazy and Andrej Boreyko.

Classical Music

Classical Music

Classical Music

On this album you are able to hear Czech music by composers Krumpholtz and Dussek performed on the single-action harp of their era: the Louis XVI. Model from the year 1779 built by the Parisian harp builders Renault & Chatelain and restored - exactly 240 years later, in 2019 - by the German harp builder Rainer Thurau. This album is historically the Czech Republic's first played on an original 18th century single-action harp. Barbora Placha is a young artist who both plays classical music and participates in multi-genre projects. She has completed her studies at the Prague Conservatory, the Royal Conservatory in Brussels and the Norwegian Academy of Music in the harp class with Isabelle Perrin.

Although programmatic, Bedrich Smetana’s string quartets do not deal with historical or social themes. Instead, they express the composer’s subjective feelings through the medium of chamber music. The Wihan Quartet, formed in 1985 and still made up of the original four members, has developed an outstanding reputation for the interpretation of its native Czech repertoire as well as the many classical, romantic and modern masterpieces of the repertoire. MusicWeb-International “Recording of the Month”