See what’s coming up on on the BCSA’s Events Calendar.

From My Homeland concert 9

Wigmore Hall 36 Wigmore Street, London, United Kingdom

Antonín Dvořák (1841-1904) Waltz in A Op. 54 No. 1 Waltz in D flat Op. 54 No. 4 String Sextet in A Op. 48 Johannes Brahms  (1833-1897) Clarinet Quintet in B minor Op. 115 NASH ENSEMBLE Stephanie Gonley violin Jonathan Stone violin Lars Anders Tomter viola Rachel Roberts viola Adrian Brendel cello Gemma Rosefield cello... Read more »

From My Homeland concert 10

Wigmore Hall 36 Wigmore Street, London, United Kingdom

Bedřich Smetana (1824-1884) From My Homeland for violin and piano Antonín Dvořák (1841-1904)    Piano Quartet No. 2 in E flat Op. 87 Bohuslav Martinů (1890-1959) Suite from La revue de cuisine   NASH ENSEMBLE Simon Crawford-Phillips piano Stephanie Gonley violin Lars Anders Tomter viola Richard Hosford clarinet Ursula Leveaux bassoon Philip Cobb trumpet   Three... Read more »

Pavel Haas Quartet

Liverpool Philharmonic Hall Hope Street, Liverpool, United Kingdom

The Czech ensemble presents a celebration of composers from their homeland. Martinů String Quartet No.3 Kaprálová String Quartet No.1, Op. 8 Dvořák String Quartet No.11 in C major, Op.61C The quartet is based in Prague and studied with the late Milan Škampa, the legendary violist of the Smetana Quartet. They take their name from the Czech-Jewish composer Pavel... Read more »

Pavel Haas Quartet

Wigmore Hall 36 Wigmore Street, London, United Kingdom

The Czech ensemble presents a celebration of composers from their homeland. Martinů String Quartet No.3 Kaprálová String Quartet No.1, Op. 8 Dvořák String Quartet No.11 in C major, Op.61C The quartet is based in Prague and studied with the late Milan Škampa, the legendary violist of the Smetana Quartet. They take their name from the Czech-Jewish composer Pavel... Read more »

The Awakening of Czech National Consciousness

Czech Embassy cinema 26 Kensington Palace Gardens, London

This illustrated talk will trace the great cultural and intellectual revival that began in the early years of the 19th century with a key moment being the foundation in 1818 of ‘The Society of the Patriotic Museum in Bohemia’. In the second half of the century the nationalist movement gathered momentum and found its expression... Read more »

“Get to know you” social evening

Bohemia House 74 West End Lane, London, United Kingdom

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 »

A Tale of Three Grandmothers: Božena Němcová in her time and ours

Czech Embassy 26-30 Kensington Palace Gardens, London

Božena Němcová's  ‘Babička’ is one of the best-loved works of Czech literature. She herself was a prominent figure in 19th-century literary circles and the National Revival despite the disadvantages which she faced as a woman writer and in a troubled personal life. Susan Reynolds will consider the two existing translations into English (1891 and 1962),... Read more »

Theresienstadt-Terezín 1941-1945

Wigmore Hall 36 Wigmore Street, London, United Kingdom

This focus session on the composers sent to Terezín in the 1940s includes a talk by writer and broadcaster Simon Broughton, a filmed interview with holocaust survivor Zdenka Fantlová, and a screening of the award-winning film The Music of Terezín. Theresienstadt – or Terezín to give it its Czech name – was a Nazi camp where... Read more »

Theresienstadt-Terezín 1941-1945

Wigmore Hall 36 Wigmore Street, London, United Kingdom

This concert brings together string chamber works by four of the most artistically active composers who spent time in Terezín. Klein, Krása and Domažlický all wrote their pieces at the camp, whilst Haas’s Janáček-inspired Second Quartet dates from the 1920s. Gideon Klein (1919-1945)                 String Trio František Domažlický  (1913-1997) ... Read more »

Theresienstadt-Terezín 1941-1945

Wigmore Hall 36 Wigmore Street, London, United Kingdom

Ullman and Krása – students of Schoenberg and Zemlinsky respectively – feature in this programme alongside the so-called ‘father’ of Czech nationalist music, Smetana. Krása’s Brundibár was performed an astonishing 55 times in Terezín, carefully arranged by its composer for the forces available in the camp. Viktor Ullman (1898-1944)   String Quartet No. 3 Op. 46 Bedřich Smetana... Read more »



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