Leo Janek - Taras Bulba / Тарас Бульба (Gothenburg Concert Hall, Stora Salen, Gothenburg, Sweden, 2017)

Göteborgs Symfoniker / Gothenburg Symphony Conductor - Santtu-Matias Rouvali Leos Janáček is one of the important Czech composers. Inspired by nature and the folk music of his country he created music both original and inventive. The Taras Bulba rhapsody was composed during the Great War, when Janácek wanted to show, in his music, that the Russian people could not be suppressed or crushed. It’s a cruel and violent story of the Cossack leader Taras Bulba who kills his own son, sees the other executed by the Poles, and is finally himself burnt at the stake – all magnificently portrayed in music by Janácek. Gothenburg Concert Hall: Stora Salen, Gothenburg, Sweden, 4 May 2017