We'll stick with Smetana and head to a concert in Geneva, Switzerland to hear the Orchestra of the Swiss Romande and conductor Pinchas Steinberg with the "Polka" from Smetana's "The Bartered Bride." ...

These days, more performances of music from Bedrich Smetana's opera The Bartered Bride come from the concert stage than from the opera pit. The opera is nearly defunct, but these dances have survived.

“My music is rhythmic because I am Czech… the natural music of the Czechs is rhythm – strong and agile rhythm.” (Martinů). How well the conductor Jac van Steen and the director Paul Curran understood ...