The Velvet Violin takes a trip to the Clam-Gallas Palace for a 60-minute string quartet concert including well-known favorites by Mozart, Bach, Vivaldi, Dvořák and more.

The Velvet Violin looks at the background to a reconstructed work by Antonio Vivaldi – for which the original music was lost – now being performed at the Prague Baroque Festival.

We talk to Youth Philharmonic Orchestra conductor Jaroslav Cigler ahead of tonight’s perfomance at Rudolfinum in the company of 15-year-old cello and piano prodigy Sarina Zhang

The makers of the highly-regarded U.S. classical music TV series Keeping Score traveled to Jihlava here in the Czech Republic to film a new documentary about the life of Gustav Mahler. Director Michael Tilson Thomas has said that, upon seeing the town itself, he decided to change the entire course of the documentary because he [...]

A British musicologist has been given an honorary doctorate by a music academy in Brno in recognition of his life’s work in promoting Czech classical music.

With Wagner’s Parsifal on stage at the Prague National Theater, the Velvet Violin has this list of ten other operas well known internationally that were originally set to a German text.

Old Town’s Bethlehem Chapel will host some very special guests tomorrow night, in a January treat for choral music fans. The 46 singers and organist of the Princeton University Chapel Choir are coming to the Golden City to take part in a choral triple bill also involving the choir of Charles University and that of [...]

If you’re Prague on vacation and want to sample some of its classical music delights, but feel bewildered by array of concerts on offer, the daily lunchtime concert at Prague Castle’s Lobkowicz Palace could be an ideal option. Make your way to the back of the castle complex, where you’ll find the very ornate concert [...]

While there were certainly some interesting melodies and fragments during this second concert in the Romanticism series at the Vzlet Theater Nov. 28, the overall impact was somewhat flat. Local virtuoso Jiří Bárta kicked off the evening by demonstrating how with a few raps of his knuckles and an effects machine, he could transform his [...]

In some ways, it was the anti-Halloween – a quiet evening of piano and cello away from the ghosts and bangs of the season at Prague 10′s recently restored Vzlet theater. But as it turned out, there were some dark sides to the melodies aired, and both musicians sought to bring a forgotten composer back [...]