Official videos
Latest releases
Dvořák: Mass In D Major, Biblical Songs, Te Deum
Dvořák: Piano Concerto, Piano Quintet
In Love with Chopin
Dmitri Shostakovich: The Pioneer
Strauss: Tod und Verklärung - Liszt: Tasso
Edvard Grieg & Antonín Dvořák: Piano Concertos
Mendelssohn, Brahms, Tchaikovsky and Sibelius: The Greatest Romantic Violin Concertos
Dvořák: Symphony No. 6, Serenade Op. 44
Dvorak: Stabat Mater B71 Op.58 / Janacek: Glagolitische Messe
Castelnuovo-Tedesco: Concert for Guitar and Orchestra in D major, Op. 99 - Rodrigo: Fantasia para un gentilhombre for Guitare and Orchestra
Seiber: Fantasia concertante, Casella: Concerto in A minor
Orff: Choral Works
About this artist
Czech conductor, chorus master, composer, oboist, musicologist, educator.
Born September 30, 1906 in Brno (former Austro-Hungarian Empire), died February 18, 1986 in Prague (former Czechoslovakia).
Founder and member of the Prague Wind Quintet, for whom he also arranged and composed. Member of the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra 1930–1933. From 1934 to 1943, he worked for the Czech Radio as conductor and editor, after 1945 as pedagogue at the Prague Conservatory and Academy of Performing Arts. Conductor and promoter of the Prague Symphony Orchestra (FOK) from the 1930s until 1972.