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- REMINDER: pianist Libor Nováček and the Carducci Quartet join forces to perform Dvořák Piano Quintet No 2 in A Major, Op 81 (B 180) (plus Haydn and Brahms) for Berkhamsted Music Society at Berkhamsted Civic Centre, Hertfordshire on Saturday 11 February 2012, starting at 7.30pm >> more
[Posted 8 February 2012] 
Nadia Myerscough (violin) and Clélia Iruzun (piano) will perform Janáček Sonata for Violin & Piano as part of an interesting recital at Leighton House Museum, Holland Park, London on Thursday 23 February 2012, commencing at 7.30pm >> more
[Posted 24 January 2012]- David Christophersen will perform Martinů Piano Sonata (H 350) in Edinburgh (January), Cambridge (April), Bristol (April) and London (September) during 2012 — performances will be part of a series of concerts featuring Prokofiev’s three “wartime” sonatas set in the context of other piano compositions >> more
[Posted 2 January 2012] - Long Beach Opera will perform Martinů’s The Tears of a Knife (Les larmes du couteau/Slzy nože) (H 169) in a double bill with Poulenc’s Les mamelles de Tirésias (The Breasts of Tiresias), Sunday 11 March (2.00pm) & Saturday 17 March 2012 (8.00pm), Center Theatre, Long Beach, California >> more
[Posted 22 November 2011] - Ensemble 360 are touring England with Janáček’s 2nd String Quartet (Intimate Letters) for Music in the Round, in a semi-staged version devised in collaboration with Daniel Evans, Artistic Director of Sheffield Theatres (November & December 2011; February & March 2012) >> more
[Posted 6 November 2011] - Proposed closure of important Czech opera company at
Janáček Theatre. The Dvořák Society has received extremely disturbing news about the future of opera at National Theatre Brno (Národní divadlo Brno) >> more
[Posted 26 October 2011]
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