Radoslav Kvapil

As well as being a published authority on Czech piano music from all eras, Radoslav Kvapil is also a sensitive and skilled pianist, most comfortable and always at his best in the music of his homeland. Kvapil is a native of Brno and began piano lessons as a young child with Ludvík Kundera of the Brno Academy. Kundera was a student of Janácek, as well as Janácek's successor at the Academy, so Kvapil learned much about that composer's life and work from first-hand sources. His intimate familiarity with and thorough research into Dvorák's music -- sometimes collaborating with Ja...