Czech Music Resonates Across the Lake District
06.08.2026 / 11:00 | Aktualizováno: 06.08.2026 / 11:34
The Consulate General supported the 41st edition of the Lake District Music summer festival. During the opening days of the festival at the turn of July and August, the unique surroundings of the Lake District echoed with works by Bedřich Smetana, Antonín Dvořák, Leoš Janáček and Josef Suk, performed masterfully by leading Czech musicians. The Wihan Quartet and Trio Bohémo also shared their extensive experience with young artists through a series of masterclasses.
The highlight of the Czech-themed part of the festival programme was a concert held on Monday, 3 August, in a fully packed parish church in Ambleside, attended by Consul General David Frous. A fitting symbolic conclusion to several days of Czech-British musical harmony was a joint performance by the Czech ensembles and young British musicians, who, conducted by Stephen Threlfall, performed Dvořák’s Slavonic Dance No. 8 in G Minor.
The Czech contribution to the festival programme was further enriched on Saturday, 1 August, by a talk given by Lady Milena Grenfell-Baines, who reflected on her journey to Britain in 1939, when she left occupied Czechoslovakia together with hundreds of other children whose lives were saved by Sir Nicholas Winton. Love for her homeland, music and Czech culture has played a significant role throughout Lady Grenfell-Baines’s life story.
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