Zelenka, Tuma – 'Music from the Einghtenn-Century Prague' – Collegium 1704

František Ignác Antonín Tůma  (1704-1774):
Stabat Mater in G minor
Johann Georg Orschler (1698-1767/70)
Sonata in F major for 2 Violins & b. c
Jan Dismas Zelenka (1679-1745):
Sub tuum praesidium in G minor
Sanctus & Agnus Dei in D minor
Sub tuum praesidium in C minor
Sanctus et Agnus Dei in G minor
Sub tuum praesidium in D minor

Collegium Vocale 1704
Collegium 1704 [on period instruments]
Václav Luks - conductor

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Zelenka – Orchestral works – Václav Luks

remembering Jan Dismas Zelenka on the anniversary o his death

(16 October 1679 – 23 December 1745)

Jan Dismas Zelenka (1679-1745):
Ouverture a 7 concertanti in F major
Sonata No.3 in B flat major *
Concerto a 8 concertanti in G major
Hipocondrie a 7 concertanti in A major
Symphonie a 8 concertanti in A major

Elsa Frank - oboe *
David Plantier - violin *
Eckhard Lenzing - bassoon *
Václav Luks - harpsichord *
Collegium 1704 [on period instruments]
Václav Luks - conductor

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Zelenka – Responsoria pro hebdomada sancta – Václav Luks

remembering Jan Dismas Zelenka on his birthday

(16 October 1679 – 23 December 1745)

Jan Dismas Zelenka (1679-1745):
Responsoria pro hebdomada sancta

Collegium Vocale 1704
Collegium 1704 [on period instruments]
Václav Luks - conductor

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Zelenka – Officium defunctorum, Requiem – Václav Luks

Jan Dismas Zelenka (1679-1745) - Music for the funeral rites of Augustus the Strong:
Officium defunctorum ZWV 47
Requiem in D major ZWV 46

Hana Blažíková - soprano
Markéta Cukrová - contralto
Sébastian Monti - tenor
Tomáš Král - bass
Marián Krejčík - bass
Collegium Vocale 1704
Collegium 1704 [on period instruments]
Václav Luks - conductor

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J.A.Benda - Harpsichord concertos - Václav Luks

"(Jiří Antonín Benda) had the opportunity to become intimately familiar with the milieu of the Prussian court. The Benda family had met with a fate similar to that thousands of other Protestants who in great numbers fled the Land of the Bohemian Crown in the period after the decisive Battle of the White Mountain (1620). (...) Franz (František) Benda, the brother of Georg (Jiří), was by that time a respected violinist and composer employed at the court of King Frederick the Great of Prussia (...) The Benda family settled in Potsdam near Berlin and the doors to the world of music opened wide to Georg (Jiří). In 1750 he entered the services of the Friederich III, the Duke of Gotha-Sax, and in 1765 Friederich III sent Benda on a six-month journey to study in Italy, (...) Benda's works from the Fifties and Sixties (chiefly sinfonie) clearly reveal the inspiration of Italian models (...) "but surely you know that of all Lutheran composers Benda is my favourite" he (Mozart) wrote to his father (...)"

[Václav Luks in the booklet]


Jiří Antonín Benda (1772-1795):
Harpsichord concerto in G minor
Harpsichord concerto in B minor
Harpsichord concerto in F minor
Harpsichord concerto in G major

Václav Luks - harpsichord
Collegium 1704 [on period instruments]

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Reichenauer - Concertos - Václav Luks

"In the early 18th century, Prague experienced a period of relative peace and prosperity. The city's grandiose Baroque redevelopment was virtually at an end and the unprecedent events linked with the coronation of Charles VI (1732) and the canonisation of St John Nepomuk (1792), which were to occur soon, only represented apexes of Baroque glory that was also present on many other occasions. Music of a new style originating in Italy was played in the new built palaces and churches. New musical genres, the aria and the solo concerto, emerged and quickly became domesticated in the creation of the local composers. (...) the works of local composers - primarily formed by the repertoire of aristocrats' orchestras which stood at the threshold of its greatest bloom - are a great rarity indeed. In point of fact, the only preserved compositions are those that had the fortune to cross the borders of the Czech lands at the time of their origin. These include almost twenty instrumental pieces of Antonín (Anton) Reichenauer (...)"

[Václav Kapsa in the booklet]

Antonín Reichenauer (c.1694-1730):
Concerto in C major for Bassoon, Strings and Basso continuo
Concerto in B flat major for Oboe, Basson, Strings and Basso continuo
Concerto in C minor for Violin, Strings and Basso continuo
Concerto in G major for Oboe, Strings and Basso continuo
Concerto in G minor for Bassoon, Strings and Basso continuo
Overture in B flat major for 2 Oboe, Bassoon, Strings and Basso continuo

Sergio Azzolini - baroque bassoon
Xenia Löffler - baroque oboe
Lenka Torgersen - baroque violin
Collegium 1704 [on period instruments]
Václav Luks - direction

[other volumes of the 'Music from Eightenn-Century Prague set]

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