Seen and Heard International.com: A fine concert as the Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra approaches its centenary

Founded at the dawn of the wireless age in 1926 as the twenty-strong Radiojournal Orchestra, the Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra (Symfonický orchestr Českého rozhlasu) will celebrate its centenary throughout the coming season. A little later this month, that season’s opening concert will recreate its opening programme, offering music by Smetana, Beethoven, Dvořak, and Fibich. As a prelude, this concert, part of the Dvořák Prague International Music Festival (Dvořákova Praha), welcomed its new chief conductor and artistic director Elias Grandy and renewed its record in new music, then and now, Czech and otherwise, albeit with somewhat unexpected results.

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