MAREK KOZÁK… Programme note JOSEPH HAYDN (1732–1809) wrote more than sixty piano sonatas. Sonata No. 62 in E flat major Hob. XVI:52, which Haydn scholars consider the zenith of the composer’s sonata oeuvre,...
Yulianna Avdějeva Programme note In the early 1840s FRYDERYK CHOPIN (1810–1849) enjoyed great renown in Paris both as a pianist and, especially in aristocratic circles, as a piano teacher. The number of...
Slávka Vernerová Programme note LEOŠ JANÁČEK (1854–1928) was not only an exceptional, highly original composer, but he was also a patriot with strong social empathy. Accessible education for all Czechs was...
Francesco Piemontesi Programme note The oeuvre of eminent German composer HELMUT LACHENMANN (b. 1935), a pupil of Luigi Nono, is characterised by the specific organisation of sounds, which he, himself, described as...