The protagonists of our recording lived and worked in a country that officially did not exist, dependent on the whims of sometimes less, sometimes more strict censors, dreamed of a career in a large, free Europe, and at the same time were doomed to struggle to raise the meagre level of local cultural life.

Eduard Hanslick called Symphony No. 1 ‘Appassionata’, it is sometimes also called ‘Pathetique’. It is said to be Bee-thoven’s ‘10th Symphony’.