Leoš Janáček’s Taras Bulba

Photo: Moravské zemské muzeum Brno

This episode of Czech Music Greats looks at the unique genius of Leoš Janáček, through his 1915-18 rhapsody for orchestra Taras Bulba. Based on a novella by the Russian writer Nikolai Gogol, this rhapsody in three movements tells the tragic tale of the elderly Cossack Taras Bulba.

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Author: Barbora Navrátilová