Milan Pospísil

When Smetana composed his Piano trio in the autumn of 1855, it was an act of catharsis to recover from the death of his four-year-old daughter Friederike. This highly emotional work was also his first...

Antonín Dvorák's chamber music output comprises over forty works. That he became known so quickly beyond the borders of Bohemia was due not least to the many discerning music aficionados who enjoyed p...

Antonín Dvořák's piano works are generally overshadowed by his symphonies and chamber music works, especially since those from around 1880 are very much oriented around Schubert, Chopin and Schumann....

Dvořák had previously written solo music for Hanus Wihan, later the dedicatee of his cello concerto. When he was planning a trio concert tour for 1892 with Wihan and violinist Ferdinand Lachner and ne...

Though only a minor pendant to the great Cello Concerto, Antonín Dvorák's Rondo op. 94 is an effective and entertaining piece that belongs in the standard repertoire of every cellist. Dvorák composed...

They are in a light style, intended more for use in the home than for concert performance'. Thus Smetana described these two duets in which he memorialised his Bohemian homeland. It is a fact, though...

It seems hard to believe today that Bedrich Smetana initially met with repeated rejection when he wanted to promote the 'Moldau', which was extremely popular in the concert hall from the very beginnin...

The more you read, the more you hear!The Eulenburg Audio+Score Series contains the orchestral world's treasures from the baroque, classical and romantic repertoire. Each of the 50 volumes consists of...

Mit über 1.200 Titeln aus Orchester- und Chorliteratur, Kammermusik und Musiktheater ist die Edition Eulenburg die größte Partiturreihe der Welt. Sie deckt einen großen Teil der Musikgeschichte vom Ba...

Mit über 1.200 Titeln aus Orchester- und Chorliteratur, Kammermusik und Musiktheater ist die Edition Eulenburg die größte Partiturreihe der Welt. Sie deckt einen großen Teil der Musikgeschichte vom Ba...

When Smetana completed his Quartet in e minor in dark and dismal colours in 1876, he had already been completely deaf for two years. Which musician is not familiar with the fateful passage in the four...

When Smetana completed his Quartet in e minor in dark and dismal colours in 1876, he had already been completely deaf for two years. Which musician is not familiar with the fateful passage in the four...