Professor Jan Smaczny
Critic, BBC Music Magazine
Jan Smaczny is an emeritus professor at Queen's University, Belfast and is an expert on Czech music, reviewing and writing for BBC Music Magazine. He has also written for titles including The Independent. Smaczny has published books on the Dvořák’s Cello Concerto (2007), Music in 19th-Century Ireland (2006) and Bach's B Minor Mass (2020).
Recent articles by Professor Jan Smaczny
Dvořák: Slavonic Dances
Tůma: Motets, Cantatas
JS Bach: Cello Suites Nos 3 & 4
J Novák: Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra etc
JS Bach: French Suites
Dvořák: Complete Piano Trios
Boris Giltburg (piano), Peter Jarůšek (cello), Veronika Jarůšková (violin) (Supraphon)
More Bach
Elbipolis Barockorchester Hamburg/Jürgen Gross (violin) (Challenge Classics)
JS Bach: Partita No. 3 in A minor etc
Christian Zacharias (piano) (MDG)
Martinů • Rautavaara: Piano Concertos
Olli Mustonen (piano); Lahti Symphony Orchestra/Dalia Stasevska (BIS)
Dvořák: Piano Trio No. 3 etc
Hagai Shaham (violin), Raphael Wallfisch (cello), Arnon Erez (piano) (Nimbus)
JS Bach: Partitas Nos 1, 5 & 6 (Mortensen)
Nils Anders Mortensen (piano) (Lawo Classics)
Beethoven and Beyond (María Dueñas)
María Dueñas (violin); Vienna Symphony Orchestra/Manfred Honeck (DG)
JS Bach: French Suite No. 5 (Bruce Liu)
Bruce Liu (piano) (DG)
Brahms: Piano Trios, Vol. 1 (Greenwich Trio)
Greenwich Trio (Linn Records)
E Casals • Lalo: Cello Concertos
Jan Vogler (cello); Moritzburg Festival Orchester/Josep Caballé Domenech (Sony Classical)
JS Bach: Sonatas for Violin and Harpsichord, BWV 1014-23
Adrian Butterfield (violin), Silas Wollston (harpsichord) (SOMM)
Kabeláč • Smetana: Piano Works (Jan Bartoš)
Jan Bartoš (piano) (Supraphon)
JS Bach – Clavichord (András Schiff)
András Schiff (clavichord) (ECM)
Kalabis • Krása • Martinů: Harpsichord Concertos
Mahan Esfahani (harpsichord); Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra/Alexander Liebreich (Hyperion)
Bartók • Brahms • Janáček: Violin Sonatas
Patricia Kopatchinskaja (violin), Fazil Say (piano) (Alpha Classics)
Soulmates (Herbert Schuch)
Herbert Schuch (piano) (Avi-music)
Motets of the Bach Family
Ensemble Polyharmonique; Teatro del Mondo/Andreas Küppers (CPO)
Martinů: The Tears of the Knife; Comedy on the Bridge
Esther Dierkes, Elena Tsallagova, Andrew Bogard; Staatsorchester Stuttgart/Cornelius Meister (Capriccio)
Martinů: Cello Sonatas Nos 1-3 (Moser/Korobeinikov)
Johannes Moser (cello), Andrei Korobeinikov (piano) (Pentatone)