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Eternal source of light divine – Georg Friedrich HÄNDEL, Henry PURCELL |
Eternal source of light divine
Henry Purcell (1659–1695)
Anthem "Hear my prayer, O Lord" Z 15
Anthem "Remember not, O Lord, our offences" Z 50
Anthem "The Lord is my light" Z 55
Georg Friedrich Händel – Dixit Dominus HWV 23
(or Henry Purcell – Te Deum in D Z 232)
Georg Friedrich Händel
Eternal source of light divine HWV 74, Ode for the Birthday of Queen Anne (1713/14)
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Les Elemens: Jean-Féry REBEL, Jan Dismas ZELENKA, Georg Friedrich HÄNDEL |
Raffaella Milanesi & Václav Luks
Les Elemens
Jean-Féry Rebel – Les Élémens
Jan Dismas Zelenka – In exitu Israel ZWV 83
Georg Friedrich Händel – Cantate Tra le Fiamme HWV 170
Georg Friedrich Händel – Cantata Donna, che in ciel di tanta luce splendi HWV 233
Raffaella Milanesi – soprano
Collegium Vocale 1704, Collegium 1704
Václav Luks – conductor
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Johann Sebastian BACH – Mass in B Minor |
 Johann Sebastian Bach
(1685–1750)
Mass in B minor BWV 232
The Mass in B minor BWV 232 (Missa solemnis toni Si minoris) is a musical setting of the complete Latin Mass which Bach composed for the Dresden court between years 1724–1749. The Mass was most probably never performed in totality during Bach's lifetime, and the work largely disappeared in the 18th century. Several performances in the early 19th century, however, sparked a revival both of the piece and the larger rediscovery of Bach's music. Today, it is widely hailed as a monumental work of the late Baroque and is frequently performed.
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Johann Sebastian BACH – Oster Oratorium |
 Johann Sebastian Bach
(1685 – 1750)
Oster Oratorium BWV 249
Magnificat in D, BWV 243
Collegium 1704
Collegium Vocale 1704
Soloists SATB
Václav Luks – conductor
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Johann Sebastian BACH – Saint John Passion |
 Johann Sebastian Bach
(1685–1750)
Saint John Passion
BWV 245
Collegium 1704
Collegium Vocale 1704
Soloists
Václav Luks – conductor
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Johann Sebastian BACH – Saint Matthew Passion |
 Johann Sebastian Bach
(1685–1750)
Saint Matthew Passion
BWV 244 (1727)
Collegium 1704
Collegium Vocale 1704
Soloists
Václav Luks – conductor
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Johann Sebastian BACH – The Sacred Cantatas |
 Johann Sebastian Bach
(1685–1750)
Cantata „Ich hatte viel Bekümmernis“ BWV 21
Ouverture č. 3 D dur BWV 1068
Cantata „Der Himmel lacht, die Erde jubilieret“ BWV 31
Collegium 1704
Collegium Vocale 1704
Václav Luks – conductor
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Johann Sebastian BACH – Magnificat in D major, Jan Dismas ZELENKA – Te Deum |
 Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750)
Magnificat en Ré majeur BWV 243
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Jan Dismas Zelenka (1679–1745)
Te Deum ZWV 146
Collegium 1704
Collegium Vocale 1704
Václav Luks – conductor
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Antonio CALDARA – Maddalena ai piedi di Cristo |
 Antonio Caldara
(1670–1736)
Maddalena ai piedi di Cristo
oratorio sepolcro, ca. 1700
Collegium 1704
Collegium Vocale 1704
Soloists
Václav Luks – conductor
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Georg Friedrich HÄNDEL – La resurrezione |
 Georg Friedrich Händel (1685–1759)
La Resurrezione HWV 47
oratorio (1708)
♣ Video DVD
La resurrezione (HWV 47) is a sacred oratorio by George Frideric Handel, set to a libretto by Carlo Sigismondo Capece (1652–1728). It was first performed on the Easter Sunday of 1708 at Rome. The work details the events between – and during – Good Friday and Easter Sunday.
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Georg Friedrich HÄNDEL – Messiah |
 Georg Friedrich Händel (1685–1759)
Messiah HWV 56
oratorio
Messiah (HWV 56) is an English-language oratorio composed by George Frideric Händel,
and is one of the most popular works in the Western choral literature.
Collegium 1704
Collegium Vocale 1704
Soloists
Václav Luks – conductor
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Georg Friedrich Händel – Jephta HWV 70 |
 Georg Friedrich Händel
(1685–1759)
Jephta HWV 70 (1752)
Oratorio
Collegium 1704
Collegium Vocale 1704
Soloists
Václav Luks – conductor
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Georg Friedrich HÄNDEL – Il Trionfo del Tempo e Desinganno / oratorio |
 Georg Friedrich Händel
Il Trionfo del Tempo e Desinganno (1708)
oratorio
Soloists
Disinganno – alto
Piacere – soprano
Belezza – soprano
Tempo – tenor
Collegium 1704
Václav Luks – conductor
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Joseph HAYDN – Creation Oratorio |
 Collegium 1704 & Dresdner Kammerchor
Joseph Haydn
Die Schöpfung Oratorium (Creation) Hob. XXI:2
Gabriel – soprano / Simona Saturova
Uriel – tenor / Eric Stoklossa
Raphaël – bass / Tobias Berndt
Adam – bass / NN
Collegium 1704
Dresdner Kammerchor
Václav Luks – conductor
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Claudio MONTEVERDI – Vespro della Beata Vergine |
 Claudio Monteverdi
Vespro della Beata Vergine (1610)
"Vespro della Beata Vergine da concerto, composta sopra canti fermi" (1610) are often regarded as the greatest Monteverdi's work ever. The Vespers is monumental in scale, and requires a choir large enough and skillful enough to cover up to 10 vocal parts in some movements and split into separate choirs in others while accompanying seven different soloists during the course of the piece.
Collegium 1704
Collegium Vocale 1704
Václav Luks – conductor
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Wolfgang Amadeus MOZART — Requiem in d K 626 |
 The Requiem Mass in D minor (K. 626) by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was composed in Vienna in 1791 and left unfinished at the composer's death. A completion by Franz Xaver Süssmayr was delivered to Count Franz von Walsegg, who had anonymously commissioned the piece for a requiem Mass to commemorate the February 14 anniversary of his wife's death.
It is one of the most enigmatic pieces of music ever composed, mostly because of the myths and controversies surrounding it, especially around how much of the piece was completed by Mozart before his death. The autograph manuscript shows the finished and orchestrated introit in Mozart's hand, as well as detailed sketches of the Kyrie and the sequence Dies irae as far as the first nine bars of "Lacrimosa", and the vocal parts of the offertory. It cannot be shown to what extent Süssmayr may have depended on now lost "scraps of paper" for the remainder; he later claimed the Sanctus and Agnus as his own.
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Wolfgang Amadeus MOZART — Mass in C Minor KV 427 |
 Collegium 1704 & Dresdner Kammerchor
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Mass in C Minor KV 427
Collegium 1704
soloists TBC
Simona Houda-Šaturová – soprano
Raffaella Milanesi – soprano
Eric Stoklossa – tenor
Tobias Berndt – bass
Dresdner Kammerchor
Václav Luks – conductor
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Giovanni Pierluigi da PALESTRINA et al. – Cantiones sacrae |
 Johann Joseph Fux (1660–1741)
Missa in fletu solatium quatuor vocum et organo K. 18 (1717)
Jan Dismas Zelenka (1679–1745)
Cantiones sacrae ZWV 220 after the Second Book of Motets by G. P. Palestrina
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (1525/26–1594)
Lamentationes Jeremiae Prophetae
Jan Dismas Zelenka: Lamentationes Jeremiae Prophetae
Works of Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina and his followers
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Musica per la settimana santa: G. B. PERGOLESI, J. D. ZELENKA |
 Musica per la settimana santa
Giovanni Battista Pergolesi (1710–1736)
Stabat Mater
Jan Dismas Zelenka (1679–1745)
Responsoria pro Hebdomada Sancta ZWV 55
Hana Blažíková – soprano
Markéta Cukrova – alto
Collegium 1704, Collegium Vocale 1704
Václav Luks – conductor
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Johann Christoph SCHMIDT – Les Quatre Saisons |
 Johann Christoph Schmidt (1664–1728)
Les Quatre Saisons
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Divertissements by Jean-Baptist de Lully, André Campra and Antione Charpentier
The Elector court in Dresden celebrated, in 1719, marriage of dauphin August and Marie Josephe, daughter of the Austrian Emperor. Magnificent festivities attracted aristocratic families, as well as artists from all over Europe. All entertainments turned around divertissement Les Quatre Saisons by Johann Christophe Schmidt (1664–1728), music composed in the French style that reminded glance of divertissements performed at the Royal court of Louis XIV in Versailles.
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Salomone ROSSI – The Songs of Salomon Ha-Shirim Asher li-Shelomo |
 Ha-li-Shelomo Shirim Asher (1623)
Psalms and hymns for three and eight voices on Hebraic texts
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instrumental piece from the collection of
Sinfonie, Gagliardi, Canzone (1607/8)
Collegium 1704
Collegium Vocale 1704
Václav Luks – conductor
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Antonio VIVALDI – La Senna festeggiante RV 693 |
 Italian serenatas which oscillates between cantata and opera have been composed for particular celebration of high political or social importance. They have been performed at the end of the day.
Vivaldi's La Senna Festeffiante has been created between ca. 1722 and 1725 to honor French king Louis XIV but the premiere was most probably performed in Italy. The piece has two parts and is based on alegoric text by Domenico Lalli where The Golden age, The Virtue and Seina figures.
River Seina welcomes The Virtue and The Golden Age on its bank. Those two are coming to king coronation to Versailles and all three personages then celebrate king's character – his mercy, righteousness and religiousness.
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Jan Dismas ZELENKA – Missa votiva |
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"...truly passionate version based on the exceptional cohesion between the choir, orchestra and soloists, unified in the same will to be in service of this galvanizing music. (...) Soloists seem to be in perfect harmony with the composition. This is, without question, the leading recording and reference not only in the field of Zelenka music."
(R9 de Classica-Répertoire, Jean-Noël Coucoureux, IX/2008)
"...It was the most excellent concert that we could hear at the Festival de Sablé in 2007. (...) interprets were prodigious..." (www.classiquenews.com, 2007, Festival de Sablé)
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Jan Dismas ZELENKA – Officium defunctorum and Requiem in D after Augustus II the Strong / modern premieres |
 ♦ Audio CD: Gramophone Magazine Editor's Choice & Disc of the Month June 2011
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"Václav Luks directs the Officium defunctorum with ample dramatic energy; Collegium 1704’s players and choir perform with lyricism and precision. The extraordinary invitatory sequence has some astonishing dramatic gestures in its orchestral ritornellos, and alto Markéta Cukrová and the excellent choir interleave fluently. (...) A fabulous masterpiece is unveiled."
(David Vickers, Gramophone 4/2011)
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Jan Dismas ZELENKA – Litaniae Omnium Sanctorum |
 Jan Dismas Zelenka
(1679–1745)
Litaniae Omnium Sanctorum
ZWV 153 (1735)
Litaniae Lauretanae Salus infirmorum
ZWV 152 (1744)
The modern premieres of Zelenka's supreme late pieces.
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Jan Dismas ZELENKA – I Penitenti al Sepolchro del Redentore |
 Jan Dismas Zelenka
(1679–1745)
I Penitenti al Sepolchro del Redentore
ZWV 63 (1736)
Oratorio I Penitent al Sepolchro del Redentore was premiered on March 30th, 1736. As one of the later Zelenka's works, it contains unique musical language, similar to Missa Votiva ZWV 18 (1739), piece of the same period.
We can hardly find anyone among his contemporaries who took advantage of string orchestra in similar way. Typical characteristic of Zelenka's pieces of this period is his ambition to experiment and to define limits of "the conceivable".
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Jan Dismas ZELENKA – Missa Omnium Sanctorum |
Jan Dismas Zelenka
(1679–1745)
Missa Omnium Sanctorum ZWV 21
(1741)
Six Messes Umtimae
the last Zelenka's mass
Collegium 1704
Collegium Vocale, soloists from the choir
Václav Luks – conductor
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Jan Dismas ZELENKA – Il Serpente del bronzo |
 Jan Dismas Zelenka
(1679–1745)
Il Serpente del bronzo ZWV 61 (1730)
oratorium
Collegium 1704
Collegium Vocale 1704
Soloists SAATB
Václav Luks – conductor
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Jan Dismas ZELENKA – Gesù al Calvario |
 Jan Dismas Zelenka
(1679–1745)
Gesù al Calvario ZWV 62 (1735)
Oratorio
Collegium 1704
Collegium Vocale 1704
Soloists
Václav Luks – conductor
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