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Laments, confessions of undying love and the guilt-tinged miniatures of Brett Dean’s Gertrude Fragments take their place alongside lute works ancient and modern in this unmissable programme from Magdalena Kožená and Daniele Caminiti. Their recital’s individual parts combine to tell stories about the deepest human emotions, from abandonment and grief to the wild verbal gestures, ticks and... Read more »
The story of a dynasty that transformed the Czech principality into a kingdom and profoundly shaped the form of Central Europe comes to life in the National Museum’s largest exhibition of the year. It brings together more than 900 exceptional exhibits from nearly seventy institutions from the Czech Republic and abroad, presenting the most extensive project... Read more »
BATAstories is a sweeping documentary driven by the voices of ‘Batamen‘ worldwide, stories from Baťa-built towns, and reflections from Baťa’s descendants. It traces the extraordinary rise of Czech entrepreneur Tomáš Baťa - the visionary cobbler’s son who transformed a small-town workshop into a global industrial shoe empire. Directed by the master documentarist Peter Kerekes, the film... Read more »
This workshop focuses on the ‘Prague-Vienna Circle’, a group of Jewish friends from the former Austro-Hungarian Empire who, having survived the Holocaust and reunited in British exile after 1945, sought to make sense of the momentous events they had witnessed. The circle comprised Nobel laureate Elias Canetti, poet and Oxford anthropologist Franz Baermann Steiner, and writer, sociologist... Read more »
This is an opportunity for anyone interested in the British Czech and Slovak Association (members, supporters and friends) to meet, eat, drink, chat (maybe practise your Czech or Slovak) and get to know each other in a relaxed and informal setting. Everyone interested in Czech and/or Slovak matters is most welcome to join us. We... Read more »
The European Writers’ Festival returns this May, bringing together leading and emerging writers from 26 countries for a weekend of discussions on literature, translation and the challenges shaping Europe today. Among the featured authors is Jáchym Topol, one of the most distinctive voices in contemporary Czech literature. Emerging from the underground cultural scene of 1980s Czechoslovakia,... Read more »
Belonging is not accidental - it is designed. This panel explores how architecture shapes belonging - not just by providing shelter, but by designing everyday life. Using the Bata village at East Tilbury as a starting point, it examines how modernist ideals, industrial ambition and community planning combined to create a distinctive model of living.... Read more »
Elements of Moravian folksong combine with edgy modernism in the String Quartet No. 3 Op. 15, written six years before Pavel Haas was murdered by the Nazis at Auschwitz-Birkenau. The Pavel Haas Quartet, champion of the Czech composer’s music since its formation in 2002, places the work together with the yearning sounds of ‘The Kreutzer... Read more »
Magdalena Kožená opens her recital with songs in her mother tongue. The Czech mezzo-soprano, born in Janáček’s home town, has few equals when it comes to touching the spirit and soul of his music. She and Malcolm Martineau move from a selection of Janáček’s haunting love songs to a sequence of pieces from the Mörike Lieder,... Read more »
The Czech Philharmonic, conducted by the orchestra’s Chief Conductor and Music Director since 2018 Semyon Bychkov, perform orchestral highlights from Smetana’s opera The Bartered Bride, Rachmaninoff’s Symphonic Dances and his Second Piano Concerto with pianist Seong-Jin Cho. When pianist Seong-Jin Cho first played with the Czech Philharmonic, Gramophone’s Orchestra of the Year in 2024, he says... Read more »
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