Links to Other Sites
Page last updated 22 March 2007
As part of our constitution, the Dvořák Society has the object of educating the public in the arts and science of the music of the Czech Republic and Slovakia. The exchange of information is a vital part of our work and this page is intended to help the process by listing the web sites of corporate and other members. But of course we do not stand alone in our musical interests: and so we are pleased to include links to other relevant organisations.
If you would like us to add a link to your site, please contact our Web Master webmaster@dvorak-society.org.
Contents of this page
Key: (CM) = corporate member of Dvořák Society (M) = member of Dvořák Society
The links on this page are grouped into broad categories as follows:
- Academic institutions and libraries
- Record companies and retailers
- Music publishing and sheet music
- Portals and information resources
- Internet Discussion Groups/Forums
- Composers
- Travel, music education and courses
- Performers and promoters (including orchestras and opera companies)
- Museums
- General aspects of Czech and Slovak culture (including embassies)
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Academic institutions, foundations and libraries
- The Ján Cikker Foundation (Nadácia Jána Cikkera) (CM), Fialkové údolie 2, 811 01 Bratislavia, Republic of Slovakia [no web site details available] | created in 1993, the Foundation aims to promote the artistic legacy of the Slovak composer Ján Cikker (1911 – 1989)
- The Royal College of Music (CM) www.rcm.ac.uk | developing tomorrows musicians
- Birmingham Central Library (CM) www.birmingham.gov.uk/centrallibrary | housing Dvořák Society publications
- The City of London Libraries (CM) www.cityoflondon.gov.uk | housing Dvořák Society publications
- The London Borough of Havering (CM) www.havering.gov.uk | housing the Antonín Dvořák collection under the G.L.A.S.S. scheme
- University of California, Santa Barbara (CM) www.ucsb.edu
- The Friedheim Library, Peabody Institute, Baltimore (CM) www.peabody.jhu.edu/lib
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Record companies and retailers
- Supraphon (CM) www.supraphon.cz | the premier Czech record label
- Arcodiva www.arcodiva.cz | a Prague based production company for Arcodiva and Ultraphon labels (high technical and artistic standards)
- Audite www.audite.de | small German label with a treasure trove of live Bavarian Radio recordings of performances conducted by Rafael Kubelík (including some works never recorded by Kubelík in the studio)
- Český Rozhlas (Czech Radio) Vydavatelství www.radioservis-as.cz/katalog | has a list (in Czech) of all Czech Radio CDs
- Classical.com www.classical.com | UK-based on-line classical music service offering listening, downloads and information
- ESS.A.Y Recordings www.essaycd.com | this American company has recorded the complete piano works of Dvořák with the Ukrainian pianist, Inna Poroshina, in Kiev.
- Hancock and Monks www.hancockandmonks.com | new web site of long-established record shop in Hay-on-Wye, Herefordshire (formerly in Bristol), offering a large and interesting list of secondhand CDs and books on music and a mail-order service | their old site www.hancockandmonks.co.uk
/oldsite.htm continues to be functional and has many items not yet transferred to the new site - HNH International (CM) www.naxos.com | the holding company for ground breaking Marco Polo, Naxos and Da Capo labels
- Široký dvůr (M) www.cdmusic.cz | record shop in Prague (near the castle) with an on-line catalogue and efficient mail-order service
- SOMM Recordings (M) www.somm-recordings.demon.co.uk | United Kingdom based independent record label with a small but select Czech content including music by Antonín Tučapský
- Slovart Records www.slovart-records.sk | dual-language (English & Slovak) site of important Slovak record label
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Music publishing and sheet music
- Talacko Sheet Music (CM) www.talacko.cz | for printed music, scores and music books in Prague and mail-order
- Editito Bärenreiter Praha (CM) www.sdmusic.cz/editio-baerenreiter | for printed sheet music, scores and books
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Portals and information resources
- Czech Music Information Centre www.musica.cz | located in Prague, promoting contemporary Czech music & composers
- Slovak Music Information Centre www.hc.sk | located in Bratislava, promoting contemporary Slovak music & composers
- The Czech and Slovak Music Society www.music.ucsb.edu/projects/csms | based in the USA with an international membership “… dedicated to the serious study and greater understanding of the music of the Czech and Slovak Republics …”
- Musicweb International www.musicweb-international.com | formerly the host for the Dvořák Society’s web pages, all music lovers should make a point of regularly visiting this site where they will find, among other things, an invaluable collection of biographies as well as CD reviews (updated daily)
- ClassicsToday.com www.classicstoday.com | U.S. based on-line classical music magazine with reviews of recordings and live performances
- Jewish Music Institute www.jmi.org.uk | at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London “… documents, preserves, teaches and presents to the public, all aspects of the Jewish musical heritage: liturgical, classical, ethnic and folk as well as music suppressed by Nazi and Soviet tyranny …”
- La Médiathèque de Musique Tchèque perso.orange.fr/alain.cf/index.htm | probably the foremost French language web resource for information about Czech composers and performers — as well as 19th and 20th century figures, there is good coverage of the baroque and classical periods — well worth visiting
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Internet Discussion Groups/Forums
- Czech and Slovak Music Discussion Group http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/ClassicalCzechSlovakMusic/ | U.S. based internet discussion group, with international membership
- Bohuslav Martinů Discussion Group http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/BohuslavMartinuDiscussion/ | U.S. based internet discussion group, with international membership
- Zelenka Forum www.jdzelenka.net/forums | internet forum associated with the on-line data base dedicated to this outstanding baroque composer at www.jdzelenka.net
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Composers
(A) Individual Composers
- Sylvie BODOROVÁ www.bodorova.cz | the personal web site of this much admired composer
- DVOŘÁK work-list Bas Geijtenbeek has compiled a list of Dvořák’s works
- Luboš FIŠER www.musica.cz/fiser | a page devoted to this much respected figure who died in 1999
- The J B FOERSTER Society (Foerstrova společnost) foerstrovka.webpark.cz | Prague based site (Czech only, but non-Czech speakers may find the concerts pages worth visiting)
- Pavel HAAS Foundation www.pavelhaasfoundation.org | English language site devoted to this important pupil of Janáček
- Leoš JANÁČEK www.leosjanacek.com | an in-depth site created and maintained by musician and theatre agent Gavin Plumley
- JANÁČEK Association Japan www2.snowman.ne.jp
/~hyamane/indexenglish.htm | site created by music lover Hideyuki Yamane - Leoš JANÁČEK-Gesellschaft (M) www.leos-janacek.org | the Leoš Janáček Society in Switzerland
- Karel JANOVICKÝ (M) www.musica.cz/janovicky/index.html | biography of the composer and short list of his works
- Vítězslava KAPRÁLOVÁ (The Kapralova Society) (M) www.kapralova.org | comprehensive site for this 20th Century composer including download-able free journal, plus a resource for women composers and conductors
- Erich Wolfgang KORNGOLD www.korngold-society.org | this is not the official site of the International Korngold Society, but it is well worth visiting — regularly updated
- Zdeněk LUKÁŠ www.apimusic.org/composersb.cfm?ln=M | a page devoted to this Quattro group composer
- Otmar MÁCHA apimusic.org | a page with information about this Quattro group composer
- Gustav MAHLER House (Dům Gustava Mahlera) www.dum-gustava-mahlera.cz | site of the ‘Mahler House’ in Jihlava
- Gustav MAHLER and Jihlava www.jihlava.cz/gustavmahler | a Czech web site devoted to the composer’s life in the town which was his home during his childhood and adolescence — in Czech, English & German
- Society for the Erection of a Monument to Gustav MAHLER in Jihlava (Společenství za zřízení pomníku Gustava Mahlera v Jihlavě) www.jihlava.cz/gustavmahler/pomnik-an.pdf | a PDF format web page giving details of a proposal for a Gustav Mahler park in Jihlava, featuring a memorial to the composer
- The Bohuslav MARTINŮ Foundation (Nadace Bohuslava Martinů) (M) www.martinu.cz
- International Bohuslav MARTINŮ Society www.martinu.cz
- Bohuslav MARTINŮ Society of Switzerland www.martinu.ch
- MARTINŮ in Paris: A Synthesis of Musical Styles and Symbols www.musicweb.uk.net/classrev/2006/Feb06/Martinu_contents.htm | Acclaimed pianist Erik Entwistle’s 200 page dissertation is now online
- Martin SMOLKA www.martinsmolka.com | the home page of the composer (born 1959, Prague) — in Czech, English, German and Polish
- Eugen SUCHOŇ www.suchon.info. | site devoted to one of the most prominent Slovak composers
- Josef SUK Society | Společnost Josefa Suka www.suksociety.cz | Prague based site (Czech only) dedicated to this great composer, distinguished chamber musicia and son-in-law of Antonín Dvořák
- Viktor ULLMAN Foundation www.viktorullmannfoundation.org.uk | English language site devoted to this important Terezín composer
- Jan (Johann) Dismas ZELENKA www.jdzelenka.net | on-line data base of works and recordings | see also associated internet forum www.jdzelenka.net/forums
(B) Sites Devoted to Categories of Composers
- The composers of BOHEMIA members.aol.com/abelard2/bohemia.htm
- La Médiathèque de Musique Tchèque perso.orange.fr/alain.cf/index.htm | probably the foremost French language web resource for information about Czech composers and performers — as well as 19th and 20th century figures, there is good coverage of the baroque and classical periods — well worth visiting
- QUATTRO Group of Composers www.sdmusic.cz/quattro | the web site of the group of composers founded in 1996 by Sylvie Bodorová, Luboš Fišer, Zdeněk Lukáš and Otmar Mácha
- TEREZÍN Chamber Music Foundation www.terezinmusic.org | information about the Terezín group of composers
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Travel, Music Education and Courses
- John Whibley (CM) www.whibley.co.uk | “Holidays with Music” for organised travel to Central & Eastern Europe
- The Prague Concert Company (CM) www.concert.cz | a travel and concert agency which specialises in organising concert tours of the Czech Republic for musical groups (including choirs) from other countries
- MusicEnterprise (M) www.intermusica.org | an international grouping of non-profit-making organisers of music courses for amateurs—see in particular their Czech list—designed to summarise the Czech musicians and music organisations with which MusicEnterprise has friendly relations and which it can recommend
- La Pellegrina www.pellegrina.net | based in The Netherlands and organises summer schools abroad mainly in the Czech Republic and Italy.
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Performers and promoters (including orchestras and opera companies)
Czech Republic
- CzechArt agency www.czechart.cz | an agency whose particular mission is to collect exceptional musical projects, soloists and orchestras and to introduce them to the international scene.
- Czech Philharmonic Orchestra www.czechphilharmonic.cz | details of the orchestras concerts at the Rudofinum plus tour dates and chamber concerts
- Karlovy Vary Symphony Orchestra www.kso.cz | pages in Czech, English and German
- Pilsen J K Tyl Theatre (Divadlo J K Tyla v Plzni) www.djkt-plzen.cz | for information on opera and ballet performances in Pilsen (Plzeň) — some English and German pages
- Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra (Symfonický orchestr Českého rozhlasu) www2.rozhlas.cz
- International Prague Spring Festival www.festival.cz | details and programme of this annual event
- International Prague Autumn Festival www.pragueautumn.cz | details and programme of this annual event and with an interesting and adventurous repertoire
- National Theatre, Prague (Národní divadlo) www.narodni-divadlo.cz | programme of performances and other information
- National Theatre, Brno (Národní divadlo v Brně) www.ndbrno.cz | programme of performances and other information
- Czech Nonet www.nonet.cz | founded in 1924 and going strong, this site has pages in Czech, English & German
- Herold Quartet www.heroldq.cz | well-regarded young quartet
- Kaprálová Quartet www.kapralova.org/QUARTET.htm | all-women ensemble named after the composer Vítězslava Kaprálová established in 1998
- Libor Nováček www.libornovacek.com | young Czech pianist who studied at the Teplice Conservatoire and the Guildhall School of Music & Drama in London
- Schulhoff Quartet www.schulhoffquartett.com | young Czech quartet formed in 2001, who take a special interest in the music of Czech composers who perished in the Holocaust
- Škampa Quartet www.skampa.com | biographical, discographical and concert information about this distinguished Czech string quartet
- Stamic Quartet www.stamicquartet.cz | informative official site of this well-established and highly respected ensemble
- Talich Quartet www.talichquartet.cz | founded in 1964 and still going strong
- Lukáš Vondráček (M) www.lukasvondracek.co.uk | talented young pianist from the Czech Republic
- Wihan Quartet www.wihanquartet.com | winners of the London International String Quartet Competition in 1991 and a favourite of Dvořák Society members
- Zemlinsky Quartet www.zemlinskyquartet.cz | formerly called the Penguin Quartet
Germany
- Berliner Philharmoniker www.berliner-philharmoniker.de | as well as being devoted to this great orchestra, the site has details of concerts by other ensembles, large and small, which are performing at the main and chamber halls
- Oper in Berlin www.oper-in-berlin.de | with German and English language pages, this site is a most useful guide to the current programmes of the opera companies in this artistically vibrant city (includes ballet)
Slovakia
- Slovak National Theatre, Bratislava ( Slovenské národné divadlo, Bratislava) www.snd.sk | programme of performances and other information
- Slovak Philharmonic (Slovenská filharmónia) www.filharm.sk | in addition to being devoted to the orchestra, this site gives details of all other artists performing at both the large and small Philharmonic halls in Bratislava
United Kingdom
- ENGLISH NATIONAL OPERA www.eno.org | performance schedules at London’s English language opera house and other
- Béla HARTMANN www.belahartmann.com | Czech-German pianist
- Steven ISSERLIS www.stevenisserlis.com | the internationally renowned cellist who frequently programmes Czech music
- ROYAL OPERA HOUSE, Covent Garden www.royalopera.org | for performance schedules and other information about opera and ballet performances in London’s international house
- SOLARIS Quartet www.solarisquartet.com | has Czech music as an important part of its repertoire, including the Terezín composers
- Vilém TAUSKÝ www.musicweb-international.com/Tausky | biography of our late vice-President
- Lada VALEŠOVÁ www.valesova.com | London based Czech pianist and vocal coach
United States
- Chamber Music Northwest www.cmnw.org | based in Portland, Oregon—one of the most successful chamber music presenters in the U.S.A.
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Museums
- Dvořák Museum in Prague (Muzeum Antonína Dvořáka) (M) www.nm.cz/mad
- The National Czech & Slovak Museum & Library, Cedar Rapids, Iowa www.ncsml.org | the United States’ foremost institution interpreting Czech and Slovak history and culture
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General aspects of Czech and Slovak culture (including embassies)
- Czech Embassy, London (M) www.mzv.cz/wwwo/?zu=london | includes a valuable list of events
- Slovak Embassy, London (M) www.slovakembassy.co.uk | includes a database of cultural information
- Radio Prague (Český Rozhlas) www.radio.cz
- The British Czech & Slovak Association (BCSA) (M) www.bcsa.co.uk | provides contacts between British Czech and Slovak people—“…BCSA aims to raise public awareness in Britain of Czech and Slovak life in all its aspects: history, arts, literature, economies, politics and sciences…”
- The Czech Centre, London (M) www.czechcentre.org.uk for a listing of cultural events in the UK
- Czech and Slovak Club in London www.czechandslovakclub.co.uk | “…a meeting place of Czech and Slovak nationals living in or visiting London, extends a warm welcome to all who want to experience the atmosphere of a Czech bar and restaurant and sample Czech and Slovak cuisine and beverages without having to cross the English Channel…”
- Josie’s Dumplings josiesdumplings.com | a tribute to the resilience of Czech culture in the USA, this site is also warmly recommended to those living outside America
- Slavophilia www.slavophilia.com | a large and searchable site devoted to Slavic, Central and East European internet resources
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