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Davidsen is in the midst of a landmark season that included her first staged performances in the title role of ������áč���’s “Jenůfa” in Chicago last November and her role debut as Leonora in the Metropolitan Opera’s new production of Verdi’s “La Forza del Destino” in February.

Played by musicians from �����š ������áč���’s hometown, Rachmaninoff easily here took his rightful place in 20th century music.

Further afield, Czech composer ������áč��� wrote a stunning tone poem after the Ukrainian Cossack protagonist of Ukrainian-born Nikolai Gogol’s Russian novel “Taras Bulba.”

Michael Goldstein, one of Pinter’s childhood best friends and a lifelong intellectual interlocutor, put Pinter onto the composer �����š ������áč���, whose string quartet “Intimate Letters” tries to mimic spoken Czech.

The US musician led the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus and BBC Singers in a stirring and dramatic programme culminating in Leos ������áč���'s utterly unique Glagolitic Mass.