Classical review: Czech National Symphony Orchestra/Pesek | Cadogan Hall, London

Cadogan Hall, LondonThe surge of ­nationalist ­sentiment that spread through Europe during the second half of the 19th ­century had profound artistic as well as political consequences. In music, few countries were served as well as ­Bohemia, now the Czech Republic, perhaps because, in the context of ­Bohemia's status as an ­increasingly ­disgruntled province of the Austro-Hungarian empire, the ­focus was aspirational and ­nostalgic rather than bombastic and ­sentime...

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