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Jakub Hrůša’s BBC Proms Debut Announced

Jakub Hrůša’s BBC Proms Debut Announced

Jakub Hrůša will make his BBC Proms debut this year at London's Royal Albert Hall on Saturday 26th August. The all-Czech programme opens with a Hussite war song, whose melody reappears in Dvorák’s Hussite Overture (depicting the struggles of Czech Reformation pioneer...

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Má Vlast Praised on SWR2 By Christine Lemke-Matwey of Die Zeit

Má Vlast Praised on SWR2 By Christine Lemke-Matwey of Die Zeit

Culture journalist Christine Lemke-Matwey of Germany's Die Zeit was full of praise for Jakub's latest recording Má Vlast during a broadcast on SWR2. Ms Lemke-Matwey applauded Jakub Hrůša's brave and unpretentious interpretation of the piece: „Mutig ist es, schon...

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OUT NOW: SMETANA – MÁ VLAST

OUT NOW: SMETANA – MÁ VLAST

Jakub Hrůša's first recording with the Bamberger Philharmoniker, Smetana: Má Vlast, has been released on Tudor. Smetana’s cycle “My Country” is a pinnacle of symphonic literature. There is nothing quite like it: six musical poems which, while independent of each...

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Jakub Hrůša Thrills with Glyndebourne’s Cunning Little Vixen

Jakub Hrůša Thrills with Glyndebourne’s Cunning Little Vixen

Conductor Jakub Hrůša has earned outstanding praise from the classical press for his performances at Glyndebourne’s revival of Melly Still’s 2012 production of Leoš Janáček’s operatic fable The Cunning Little Vixen. Neil Fisher in The Times writes of Hrůša: “A Brno...

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