Leos Janacek (1854?1928) and Josef Suk (1874?1935) are the Czech composers chosen by the string quartet Arete Quartet ...

When the Arete Quartet, one of Korea’s most closely watched young chamber ensembles, began discussing their first recording, the choice of repertoire came almos ...

Leos Janacek was the classic late bloomer among composers, not really coming into his own until he was 62--and only then, over the last dozen years of his life, did he truly display individual genius.

Rhodes, who teaches violin at the University of Colorado -- which is also the home base for Takacs -- recently showed off her skills as a soloist in the CPR Performance Studio. She played a somber, ...

He's a composer known mostly for his operas. Leos Janacek wrote more than opera, though. He wrote string quartets and piano music, too. Leos Janacek is the inspiration behind this week's Piano Puzzler ...

We tend to look at 20th-century music along lines provided by familiar binaries: Stravinsky vs. Schoenberg, tonal vs. serial, folk tradition vs. modernism. One of the reasons Janacek’s music is so ...

On Sunday at the Phillips Collection, the Escher String Quartet offered a bracing antidote to the season of ubiquitous “Messiahs” and treacly “Nutcrackers.” Bookending its program with the violent ...

May-December romances don’t come more hopelessly one-sided than the passion the composer Leos Janácek nurtured for a younger woman named Kamila Stösslová. They met when he was 63, she was 25, and both ...