Music From 18th Century Prague
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Václav Gunther Jacob: Missa Dei Filii
Hana Blažíková, Barbora Sojková (soprano), Petra Noskaiová (mezzo-soprano), Sylva Cmugrová (contralto), Hasan El Dunia, Ondrej Šmíd (tenor) & Tomáš Král, Jaromír Nosek (bass)
Capella Regia Praha, Robert Hugo
Robert Hugo lavished as much attention on Rathgeber's slender compositions as he does on Jacob's weightier utterances. Voices are suitably robust… good sense prevails in the artistic use of... —
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2010, Editor's Choice
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Zelenka: Missa Nativitatis Domini
RecommendedBarbora Sojková (soprano), Markéta Cukrová (alto) & Tomáš Král (bass)
Musica Florea (on period instruments), Marek Štryncl
It is hugely persuasive music and is performed here by the period instrument group Musica Florea under Marek Štryncl with real tenderness and commitment. Soloists and choir are in good voice,... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 3rd December 2012
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Building A Library, November 2021, Also Recommended
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Tomasek: Fortepiano Sonatas
Recorded at the Chateau Příchovice, Přeštice 30 October - 1 November, 2016
Petra Matějová (fortepiano)
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Zelenka: Melodrama de Sancto Wenceslao ZWV 175
Musica Florea, Musica Aeterna, Ensemble Philidor & Boni Pueri, Marek Stryncl
From instrumental obbligatos to antiphonal choruses it’s all so fresh and exuberant. —
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Benda: Sonatas, Sonatinas & Songs
Music from Eighteenth-Century Prague
Edita Keglerová (harpsichord), Ivana Bilej Brouková (soprano), Helena Zemanová (violin), Hana Fleková, Marek Štryncl (cello)
Blandness sometimes threatens, even more so in the featherweight sonatinas, though even at his most compliant Benda can trip you up with a disorientating pause, or surprise harmonic twist. —
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After the thoroughly professional and exploratory earlier volumes of the 'Music from 'Eighteenth-Century Prague' series, I expected this to be a worthwhile recording; but the music of the hitherto... —
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The laments of 'choral' lamentation, surprisingly galant passages and solemn fugues are revealed beautifully and accompanied with tastefulness by a continuo group that varies its colours unobtrusively. —
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Zelenka: Sepolcri
Recorded in Church of Virgin Mary under the Chain, Prague, May 5–7, 2011
Hana Blažíková (soprano), David Erler (alto), Tobias Hunger (tenor) & Tomáš Král (bass)
Collegium Marianum (performed on period instruments), Jana Semerádová
Credit is due to Jana Semeradova for a world-premiere recording, and for the cool professionalism with which he and his choir illuminate the score's structure. What fails to come through is... —
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Josef Antonin Sehling: Music From 18th Century Prague
Recorded in Church of Virgin Mary under the Chain, Prague, 2014
Hana Blazikova (soprano), Marketa Cukrova (alto), Tomas Kral (baritone)
Collegium Marianum, Jana Semeradova
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