The chief conductor of the Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra, Petr Popelka, teams up with Josef Špaček, one of the best violinists of the younger middle generation, to perform Bohuslav Martinů’s second violin concerto, written in 1943. The other two works are distinctly programmatic and have a literary basis. Antonín Dvořák’s Polednice (The Noon Witch) is one of four symphonic poems he composed on his return from America, based on themes from Karel Erben’s collection Kytice (A Bouquet of Czech Folktales). Igor Stravinsky’s The Firebird is a colourful ballet fairy tale. More