Janacek's piano works require a particularly dexterous brand of musician to bring out their characteristic blend of evocative implication and clear-eyed structure. Andras Schiff is just that pianist, ...

Leos Janácek's Sinfonietta and Glagolitic Mass and operas ranging from "Jenufa" to "The Makropoulos Case" are well established in the classical repertoire. But his piano music needs more advocates. On ...

One could spend time discussing why a composer of Thomas Adès’s prominence is compelled to record Janáček’s piano music, but that’s a job for pundits, not reviewers. It’s apparent from the get-go that ...

For his new recording, on the Skarbo label, the rising pianist Nadav Hertzka pairs Leos Janacek's Piano Sonata No. 1 and On An Overgrown Path, with Nimrod Borenstein's three-piece Reminiscences Of ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. It is about time. It took until the 1950s for Janacek’s operas to be accepted outside his home country (what ...

(Viktoria Postnikova, piano; Orchestre de Paris members, Gennady Rozhdestvensky, conductor; Erato). Janacek: Piano music: Sonata, ”In the Mist,” ”A Recollection ...

The remaining pieces provide the novelties, most notably the largest item, Miloslav Kabelác's Eight Preludes (1954-56). This is a richly rewarding and euphonious set, each prelude concentrating on a ...

In May 1916 Czech composer Leos Janacek was preparing to go to a spa for some well-deserved R&R when he happened to read a group of anonymous poems published in a local newspaper. The verses told the ...

A re-release of an important early recording, this collection lets one hear Janacek’s interest in folk music informing and then being sublimated into his style. The voice-and-piano “Ukvaldská lidová ...

He's a composer known mostly for his operas. Leos Janacek wrote more than opera, though. He wrote string quartets and piano music, too. Leos Janacek is the inspiration behind this week's Piano Puzzler ...