GIVE your system a bit of a jolt and try this: I was electrified. Can I give the highest recognition to this latest disc by Belgian band Anima Eterna, with performances of Dvorak’s New World Symphony, ...

Jos van Immerseel's last period-instrument excursion took in Orff's Carmina Burana, so this latest release is a chronological back step. Though Janáček's insane Sinfonietta, written in 1926, still ...

When Leos Janacek was 63 years old, he met the beautiful 26-year-old wife of an antique dealer. Over the course of a decade he fell in love with her, and those feelings inspired much of his music, ...

The Supraphon disc, spanning 25 years of Martinu`s creative life, shows us another, more fantastical side of his creative imagination. Whether evoking symbolic images from a distant, mystical past ...

Writer and broadcaster Nigel Simeone reveals the secret inspiration behind composer Leoš Janáček’s 'Sinfonietta' - and why we should especially listen out for the bells. Show more In this series of ...

BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Edward Gardner live at the BBC Proms. Britten, Janacek, Nielsen's Flute Concerto with Emily Beynon and a world premiere of Raymond Yiu's Symphony. Live from the ...