Praga Rosa Bohemiae
Cappella Mariana, Vojtěch Semerád
Works by Josquin and Obrecht are among the gems in this excellent collection. Crisp, one-to-a-part performances benefit from majestic recorded sound.
Praga Rosa Bohemiae
Cappella Mariana, Vojtěch Semerád
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Works by Josquin and Obrecht are among the gems in this excellent collection. Crisp, one-to-a-part performances benefit from majestic recorded sound.
About
The focal point of the album is the recently rediscovered Prague manuscript of polyphonic masses, with the fabulously survived Missa Presulem ephebeatum by Heinrich Isaac, one of the most significant masters of the Franco-Flemish polyphonic style. Petrus Wilhelmi de Grudencz’s Presulem ephebeatum, whose thematic material inspired Isaac, attests to his mass being connected with Bohemia and Prague.
• The album contains a number of other extraordinary pieces - Josquin Des Prez’s celebrated Stabat Mater, with the added sixth voice, which has been uniquely preserved in this form in Bohemia.
• Cappella Mariana, made up of stellar early music singers (Hana Blažíková, Barbora Kabátková, etc.), have performed Renaissance polyphony to great acclaim.
Contents and tracklist
- Cappella Mariana, Vojtech Semerád
- Cappella Mariana, Vojtech Semerád
- Cappella Mariana, Vojtech Semerád
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Awards and reviews
December 2019
Works by Josquin and Obrecht are among the gems in this excellent collection. Crisp, one-to-a-part performances benefit from majestic recorded sound.
July 2020
Cappella Mariana boasts nine superb singers, including the outstanding soprano Hana Blažíková, heard in various combinations and directed from within by tenor Vojt Semerád. The ideal if indulgent acoustics of the refectory of Osek Monastery cast a glowing halo around so much vocal beauty.
