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An designer of close to iconic reputation in his indigenous Czechoslovakia, Beno Blachut became popular to record enthusiasts elsewhere through his many recorded performances of Czech music. Operas of Janácek, Dvorák, and Smetana had been introduced to numerous through the interpretations from the post-WWII college of Czech performers led by …

The Wihan Quartet has generated a reputation both because of its incisive interpretations of Czech repertory as well as the quartets of Beethoven. Certainly, it has attained broad worldwide acclaim for shows from the quartets of Dvorák, Smetana, and Janácek, aswell as those of modern Czech composers like Lubos Krticka …

Within a 12 months of its 1985 founding, the Stamic Quartet established itself among the leading Czech string quartets of its time. Its triumph in 1986 in the Salzburg-based Country wide Broadcasting Union Competition catapulted them in to the limelight, the players after that launching their worldwide professions with critically …