Croatian mezzo-soprano Renata Pokupić, described by The Independent as ‘bright, open, and seductive of voice’, joins the Nash Ensemble to explore music from the Czech lands, a strikingly creative region of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

This programme voyagesfrom Janáček’s wind sextet, which reflects on histime as a choirboy, to Smetana’s evocative tonepoem, before arriving at Dvořák’s passionate andcolourful Love Songs and his Piano Quintet in A,among the best-loved of all chamber works.