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ONDŘEJ KABRNA TRIO
Timeways

Ondřej Kabrna – piano, Fender Rhodes, synthesizers
Jakub Antl – double-bass, bassguitar
Lukáš Pavlík – drums

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CATHEDRAL ORGAN IN LITOMĚŘICE

Bach / Middelschulte, Schmidt, Mendelssohn-Bartholdy,
Bossi, Finke, Tůma

Jaroslav Tůma plays on Jehmlich organ from 1941

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ANTONÍN DVOŘÁK
Symphonies Nos. 7 & 8, Symphonic Variations

Musica Florea, conducted by Marek Štryncl
world premiere recording on period instruments

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PLASY ORGAN
Bull, Byrd, Froberger, Muffat, van Noordth, Pachelbel, Scheid, Sweelinck, Tůma, Weckmann

Jaroslav Tůma: organ by Abraham Starck from 1688

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Martin Brunner: piano
Martin Kapusník: double-bass, bassguitar
Petr Mikeš: drums

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Radek Zapadlo: tenor saxophone
Matej Benko: piano
Jaroslav Šimíček: double-bass
Tomáš Hobzek: drums

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Ivana Bilej Brouková: soprano
Markéta Cukrová: mezzo-soprano
Jan Krejča: theorbo, guitar, lute
Miloslav Študent: archlute, guitar, lute
Petr Wagner: viola da gamba
Tomáš Reindl: percussion

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Miroslav Hloucal: trumpet
Radek Zapadlo: tenor saxophone
Matej Benko: piano
Tomáš Liška: double-bass
Pavel Zbořil: drums
Miriam Bayle:vocal (special guest)

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Jirka Hála - tenor sax, flute, Brian Seeger - guitar, John Gros - Hammond organ, keyboards, vocal, Brian Coogan - Hammond organ, keyboards, Casandra Faulconer - bass, George Sluppick - drums, Johnny Vidacovich - drums, Scott Bourgeois - alto sax, Brent Rose - tenor sax, Rick Trolsen - trombone, Matt Perrine - sousaphone, Irij Alah - baritone sax

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AghaRTA GANG
There Is Hope

Štěpán Markovič – saxophone, Boris Urbánek – piano, keyboards, Vít Švec – double bass, Michal Hejna – drums
  
Luboš Andršt – guitar, Ondřej Kabrna – piano, Matej Benko – piano, Roman Pokorný – guitar, Zdeněk „Wimpy“ Tichota – bass, Martin Gašpar – bass, Jan Linhart – drums, Marek Paterman – drums, Imran Musa Zangi – percussion, Veleband

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Music for two keyboards, three or four hands and two, three and four feet

Karel Paukert & Jaroslav Tůma

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jewish sabbath songs

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LUBOŠ ANDRŠT GROUP
Moment In Time

Luboš Andršt - guitars, Ondřej Kabrna - piano, synthesizer, Zdeněk "Wimpy" Tichota - bass guitar, Michal Hejna - drums
& guests: Michal Žáček - soprano saxophone, Jan Hrubý - violin, Imran Musa Zangi - percussion

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Jan Štolba - tenor saxophone
Vladimír Strnad - piano
Jan Greifoner - double-bass
Jan Linhart - drums

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Jaroslav Tůma - clavichords by Martin Kather (1997, 1999)

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Jana Lewitová: vocal, viola, harp
Vladimír Merta: vocal, lutes, baritone guitar, 12string guitar, bratch, viola da gamba, flutes, percussion
& guests:
Zdenka Kopečná: vocal, Hana Fleková: viola da gamba

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Limited Edition
Miroslav Hloucal – trumpet, flugelhorn, Rostislav Fraš – tenor & soprano saxophones, Přemysl Tomšíček – trombone, Jan Hála – piano, electric piano, Vít Švec – acoustic bass, Pavel Razím – drums

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THE BŘEVNOV ABBEY ORGAN

The 18th century Figural music by Benedictines of the Břevnov-Broumov Archabbey / Johann Valentin Rathgeber, Georg Christoph Wagenseil, Wenzel Gunter Jacob, Josef Mentzel, Erasmus Mentschel, Anonymous

Robert Hugo - organ 
Hana Blažíková - soprano, Markéta Cukrová - alto, Jaromír Nosek - bass
Capella Regia Praha, directed by Robert Hugo

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MADFINGER – SECRET MESSAGE

MadFinger
Markéta Foukalová - lead and backing vocals, Matouš Kobylka - tenor & alt saxophone, Viktor Jerman - guitar, David Walter - keyboards, Radim Genčev - bass, Ondřej Pomajsl - drums

guests: Vojtěch Dyk - lead and backing vocals, Nironic - rap, Miroslav Hloucal - trumpet, Tomáš Brožek - percussion, Radim Vychopeň - flute, Leona Prokopcová - backing vocals

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UHLÍŘ, JURKOVIČ, HELEŠIC TRIO
Maybe Later

František Uhlíř - double-bass
Darko Jurkovič - guitar
Jaromír Helešic - drums

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Helena Rothová - piano, percussion
Tereza Rejšková - violin
Michal Kostiuk - clarinet, recorder
Ruben Lang - violin
Martin Vyhnálek - guitar
Tomáš Bedrník - bassoon

WENCESLAS II, the Bohemian king
music from the late 13h century

Schola Benedicta
directed by Jiří Hodina

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EMIL VIKLICKÝ TRIO
Ballads And More

Emil Viklický - piano
František Uhlíř - double-bass
Laco Tropp - drums

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Prague choir presents hasidic and jewish folk songs

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Hasidic and jewish folk songs directed by Hana Roth

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JAN ZACH (1699 - 1773)
Sinfonias in A major, F major, A major, G major, A major, B major, D major

Capella "Sancta Caecilia"
Ivan Zenaty, Gabriela Demeterova, Jan Simon, Petr Hejny, Vit Mach, Jaroslav Tuma

World premiere recording

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THE MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH
contemporary compositions for percussion written by Svatopluk Havelka, Ivana Loudová, Mikko Heiniö, Julio Roloff, Luboš Fišer

This recording is an important presentation of the Department of Percussion at the Prague Music Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts (HAMU), among others.

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JIŘÍ ANTONÍN [Georg Anton] BENDA (1722 - 1795)
Harpsichord Concertos, Vol. II - in G, D, F & C major

Benda wrote harpsichord concertos mainly for his concert work, and therefore paid special attention to them. He thus left us works that bear the imprint of his compositional and personal style, and have today been rightly rediscovered for critical editions and recordings. 

Edita Keglerová - harpsichord

Ensemble Hipocondria
Jan Hádek - violin
Jana Chytilová - violin
Michal Dušek - viola
Ondřej Michal - violoncello
Michal Novák - double-bass

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GEORG PHILIPP TELEMANN (1681 - 1767)
Concertos & Sonatas for Recorder and Viola da Gamba

Jiří Stivín - recorder
Petr Hejný - viola da gamba
Pro arte antiqua Praha

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NOČNÍ OPTIKA
HERBARIUM

Štěpán Zbytovský – flute
Miroslav Nosek – guitars
Jakub Dvořáček – piano, harpsichord
Jan Keller – bassguitars, cello
Jan Linhart – drums

Night Optics is an instrumental quintet composed of musicians whose starting point is partially jazz, partially classical music. The result is a sort of periphery or suburb of the jazz mainstream, a place lit with flashes of the resonance of the pulsing fevers of the metropolis, and breezes of the sombre surfaces of the forest pools. A neurotic’s meditation blends with the phlegmatic’s mad dash in a herbarium of half-forgotten animals.

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Ivana Bilej Brouková - soprano
Markéta Cukrová - mezzo-soprano
Hipocondria Ensemble directed by Jan Hádek

The choir of St Vitus’s Cathedral was also regularly performed Italian music. That was not unusual, after all, since Italy set the tone practically throughout the eighteenth century. Italian music, or at least compositions in the Italian style, form part of almost all the Bohemian music archives of this period. What is remarkable, however, is the great number and particularly selection of compositions that have been preserved at St Vitus’s...

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Giedré Lukšaité-Mrázková - harpsichord
Jaroslav Tůma - harpsichord

In connection with the 20th anniversary of František Vyhnálek´s workshop, the Czech leadest harpsichord maker, we are pleased to announce an exceptional 2CD project presenting two famous Czech harpsichordists performing compositions by Byrd, Farnaby, Frescobaldi, Sweelinck, Couperin, Händel, Štěpán and Bach on 6 different instruments.

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Folhinha Band
Andrea Ruilova - vocal, piano, cash cash, harana
Jiří Šimek - guitars
Filip Spálený - bassguitar
Filip Jeníček - drums
   & Ecuador friends:
Diana Viteri - percussions, vibraphone, guitar
Miguel Merchán - bassguitar

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Petr Rajnoha – organ
Smetana Hall of Obecní dům at Prague

Second volume of Josefa Klička´s organ work follows the album of five concert fantasies. Three Legends (opp. 49, 54, 98) are completed with wide Sonata F sharp minor from 1917.

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Položka {NOTY 07} nebyla nalezena. NOTY 07

MATEJ BENKO
Songbook

album (sheet music) of 18 compositions for piano solo by young Slovak pianist and composer Matej Benko, whos tunes are already recorded on albums "Universality" (ARTA, F10143) and "Keporkak" (ARTA, F10131)

Absence, Distant Relative, Evening Prelude, Fishtale Tale, Follow The Whales, Fairytale About Caroline, Granny’s Room, Informations No. 1 – 8, Universality, Monkfish, Smilla

Fantasia on the Symphonic Poem "Vysehrad" by Bedrich Smetana
Concert Fantasia on the St. Wenceslas Chorale
Concert Fantasia in C minor
Concert Fantasia in G minor
Concert Fantasia in F sharp minor


Petr Rajnoha – organ
the church of St Moritz, Kroměříž

World premiere recording of the complet of five concert fantasies
by Czech organ "symphonicker" Josef Klička.

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Alessandro Piccinini (1566 - 1638)
Intavolatura di liuto et di chitarrone, Libro primo, Bologna 1623
Giovanni Girolamo Kapsperger (1580 - 1651)
Libro primo d'intavolatura di chitarone, Roma 1611
Libro quarto d'intavolatura di chitarone, Roma 1640
Bellerofonte Castaldi (1580 - 1649)
Capricci a due stromenti cioe tiorba e tiorbino e per sonar solo varie sorti di balli e fantasticarie, Modena 1622
Girolamo Frescobaldi (1583 - 1643)
Toccate e Partite d'Intavolatura di cimbalo et organo, Libro primo, Roma1615 

Jan Krejča – theorbo
Robert Hugo – organ positive, harpsichord
Helena Zemanová – violin
Jan Novotný - double-bass

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JIŘÍ STIVÍN & JAZZÍČEK
Bye Bye Holland
live recording from the Jazz in Duketown festival in Hertogenbosch,
May 1989

Jiří Stivín - alto saxophone, flutes
JAZZÍČEK: Vítězslav Marek - trumpet, guitar, Svatobor Macák - tenor saxophone, Ladislav Gerendáš - basstrumpet, Zdeněk Kalhous - el. piano, Vít Fiala - double-bass, Vladimír Žižka - drums

Oh, Lady Be Good (Gershwin)  
Riff (Tate)  
Autumn Leaves (Cosma)  
Stompin’ At The Savoy (Goodman, Webb, Razal)
Bernie’s Tune (Miller, Leiber, Stoller)
Bye Bye Blackbird (Henderson)
Stuffy (Hawkins)
Scrapple From The Apple (Parker)
C-jam Blues (Ellington)

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Sibilla provençale (traditional)
Mariam Matrem Virginem (Llibre Vermell de Montserrat)
Faith (after Hildegard von Bingen: Ave generosa)
The Birth of Hope (Hana Blochova, Petr Vyoral)
Love (after Hildegard von Bingen: Caritas abundat)
Universum (Kvinterna)


Hana Blochová – vocals, harps, Tibetan bowls, organetto
Kvinterna
Petr Vyoral – fiddles, oud
Pavel Polášek – chalumeaux, santouri, vocal
Milos Valenta – fiddle
František Pok – shawm, recorded, hurdy-gurdy
Petr Filák – oud
Přemysl Vacek – lute
Marie Hřebíčková, Josef Preisler, Petr Doubek – vocal
Milan Bílek, Dan Dlouhý, Luboš Holzer – percussion
Michal Sodja - didgeridoo

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UPSIDE DOWN! 
or Ba^©chanalistica

What one earth do you mean, ”Bachanalistica”? No, don’t worry, this isn’t about some cheap vulgar approach to marketing the great Johann Sebastian (although he certainly had a great appetite for food!), or some trendy display of musicological expertise, or a hygienist’s  analysis of the drinkability of water from the stream (der Bach = stream in German). Bacchanalia, in the sense of wild and opulent revels took their name from Bacchus, “the patron of feasting and drinking” – yes, when wine flowed in the streams! We might find a certain etymological association with another German word, der Bauch = the belly, which is related to our Czech word “bachor” meaning one of the stomachs of the cow. Bachanti or vaganti, was once the name given to people – mostly students – who wandered from university to university, from town to town and from inn to inn, begging, seducing, and enjoying their food and drink. From the Middle Ages the vagabond pupils and students were an element akin to the homeless of today. But...

Ritornello
directed by Michael Pospíšil

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LEOŠ JANÁČEK (1854 – 1928)
Organ solo from Glagolitic Mass

PAUL HINDEMITH (1885 – 1963)
Three sonatas for the organ

JAROSLAV TŮMA (1956)
An Overgrown Path, after Janacek
(four improvisations on themes from Janacek´s piano pieces)


Jaroslav Tůma
organ at the church of St Nicholas, Ludgerovice (near Ostrava)

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J.I.F.Vojta, the doctor of medicine was contemporary of the famous Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber. Apart from notes in the university records, written in his own hand, we have no other primary-source information about him. Vojta was the house physician of the Benedictines at the Church of St Nicholas in the Old Town, and he lived in the Tyn quarter, near Tomas Baltazar Janovka. In his day, he was a recognized composer with his own pupils. Just how prolific a composer Vojta was, we don’t know. We have knowledge only of 27 of his compositions, of which only seven survive – in Brno, Prague, Vienna, and Paris. All are recorded on this album.


La Gambetta
Elen Machová – violin, viola, viola da gamba, Věra Mikulášková – viola da gamba, Monika Knoblochová – virginal, Miloslav Študent –archlute
Hana Blažíková, Marta Fadjevičová – soprano, Hasan El-Dunia – alto, Marek Olbrzymek – tenor, Michael Pospíšil – bass
Karel Mňuk, Jaroslav Rouček – Baroque trumpets, Martin Kalista – violin, Chiara Granata – triple harp, Pietro Prosser – calichon, Baroque guitar, Dennis Brauer Iversen – violone, Adam Viktora –organ positive, Petr Kalousek – Baroque kettle drums

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World premiere recording of the exceptional cycle of fugues on period hammer-clavier by Anton Walter from Wien.



Jaroslav Tůma
Hammer-clavier Anton Walter c. 1790

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MATEJ BENKO TRIO
Universality

Distant Relative
Absence
Fairytale About Caroline
Lôro
Granny´s Room
Smoke Gets In Your Eyes
All Fool´s Day
Universality - piano intro
Universality
Chan Chan  
 
Matej Benko - piano
Jan Greifoner - double-bass
Branko Križek - drums

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Stockhausen´s Tierkreis from 1975 is a cycle of twelve compositions inspired by the signs of the zodiac. The work is intended for one chordal instrument; playing from the written notes is largely open to interpretation. Ivan Zenaty offers a version in which each sign of the zodiac is performed by a different chordal instrument. The solo violin, by contrast, moves through all the signs, influenced both by the meaning of the individual signs and by the character of the instrument accompanying it at that moment.

Ivan Ženatý - violin
Aleš Bárta – church organ, Jana Boušková – harp, Rudolf Dašek – guitar, banjo, Pavel Drešer – accordion, Josef Hála – piano, harpsichord, celeste, Jiří Mazánek – sitar, Daniel Mikolášek – vibraphone, marimba, Antique cymbals, bells

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This collection of twelve spiritual cantatas, called Opella ecclesiastica, was published in Augsburg in 1723. It is the only extant work of the Czech Baroque composer, who, owing to the mature form of these arias, is considered to have had a musical language comparable to that of composers as great as Bach and Haendel.

Ludmila Vernerova-Novakova - soprano
Marta Benackova - alto
Zdenek Harvanek - bass

MUSICA BOMHEMICA
conducted by Jaroslav Krcek

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• Sonata in A minor
• Partita in G major
• Partita in A minor
• Partita in F major
• Sinfonia in B flat major
• Sinfonia in D major
  
  František Tůma, an excellent player of the viola da gamba and theorbo, belongs with his work to the music of the Late Baroque. The polyphony of his composition predominates, but there are also homophonic movements with simpler harmonies foreshadowing the Classical music that was to come. Among instrumental works are his trio and quartet sonatas, symphonies, and partitas, mostly for string instruments and continuo, some of which, however, were also played by orchestras.
  
  
  Antiquarius Consort Praga
  Václav Návrat - violin
  Simona Pešková-Tydlitátová - violin
  Petr Hejný - violoncello
  Přemysl Vacek - archlute, Baroque guitar
  Václav Luks - harpsichord
  
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Jaroslav Tůma (*1956) eight organ improvisations present a masterful and widely viewed confrontation of music cultural past and present. Already an idea on its own is a unigue challenge to so called classical music where an improvisation as a art linked to the nonmediate creative source has almost disappeared. Tuma´s creations, however, are heading further: there it is not only interpreted a brilliant technique that still luckily, in the long run, constantly belong to basic professional skill of every organist but also we can feel there a many hundred years of unique complex practice of a royal instrument.

Jaroslav Tůma - organ
Live recordings on eight different instruments throughout the world: Doksy (Czech Republic), Passau, Munchen, Frankfurt (Germany), Milano (Italy), Karlskrona (Sweden), Cambridge (United States), Annaka (Japan)

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• Litanie lauretanae
• Regina coeli a 8
• Vesperae minus solenne
• Fuga F dur
• Quare Domine irasceris
• Fuga a moll
• Regina coeli
• Toccata C dur
• Quem lapidaverunt
• Laudetur Jesus Christus
  
  Until historians of music finally elevated him to the status of the Bach of Bohemia, Černohorský had long been widely considered a composer for the organ. Thanks only to painstaking detective work did it become possible in subsequent years to determine the key moments of his life and, at least in part, to answer a question that to this day remains just as intriguing – namely, who exactly was
  Bohuslav Matěj Černohorský?
  
  Societas Incognitorum
  Hipocondria Ensemble
  Pavel Černý: church organ
  
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two different complete recordings of the same famous composition on two different keyboard instruments
the clavichord version of Goldberg Variations is the wolrd premiere recording
special price 2CD


Jaroslav Tůma
CD1: clavichords
CD2: harpsichord

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FELIX KADLINSKÝ (1613 - 1675)
The Nightingale-In-Despite

The famous set of songs known as the TRUTZ-NACHTIGAL by the Jesuit Fridrich Spee von Langenfeld, completed in 1634, was to be reprinted many times in German. It was beautifully translated into Czech by the Jesuit FELIX KADLINSKY and published under the title of ZDORO-SLAVICEK, first in 1665. It contains 52 texts of songs to 25 melodies. Some melodies can fit different texts and vice versa, a practice we still sometimes follow today. The individual songs soon spread to “normal“ hymnbooks as well, where they survived at the least into the 19th century. Paradoxically, a music typically intimate in style, delicate, designed for private prayer and contemplation, became so popular that it found itself arranged in crowd chorales…


Ritornello Fraucimor, directed by Michael Pospíšil
Hana Blažíková - vocal, harp, drum
Kateřina Doležalová - vocal, harp
Hana Fleková - viola di gamba
Simona Holubcová - theorba
Jana Lewitová - vocal, harp, viola
Lenka Mitášová - lutes, harp, Baroque guitar
Tereza Pavelková - recorder, organ positive, vocal
Blažena Pecháčková - vocal, violin, pochette, harp
Michael Pospíšil - vocal, whistle-pipe, cornett, chalumeaux, organ positive

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• Koncert g moll
• Koncert h moll
• Koncert f moll
• Koncert G dur
  
  “But surely you know that of all Lutheran composers Benda is my favourite,” W. A. Mozart wrote to his father from Mannheim…
  Educated by the intellectual Lutheran milieu and profoundly affected first by the French Enlightenment and then, in particular, by the artistic rebellion of the “Sturm und Drang,” Benda was a typical child of his times. His musical language crystallized into its supreme form in the 1770s, a time when he also wrote the majority of his most important works including the harpsichord concertos.
  

  Václav Luks - harpsichord
  Collegium 1704
  Lenka Koubková - violin
  Jan Hádek - violin
  Michal Kuchařík - viola
  Libor Mašek - violoncello
  
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Sonata Secunda D dur
Sonata Terza A dur
Prelude e moll
Sonata Quarta d moll
Sonatina A dur
[Aria et variationes] D dur
[Balletti scordati] A dur
Sonata Sesta a moll
Sonatina d moll

Petr Wagner - viola da gamba
Ensemble Tourbillon
Natalia Sitarz - harpsichord, organ positive
Jan Krejča - theorbo, Baroque guitar
Přemysl Vacek - archlute
Robert Rawson - viola da gamba

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Enríquez de Valderrábano, Alonso Mudarra, Luys de Narvaez, Luys Milán, John Dowland, John Sturt, Robert Johnson, Biagio Marini, Johann Hieronymus Kapsberger, Girolamo Marinoni, Alessandro Piccinini, Francesco Cavalli, Henry Purcell, ad.

Jana Lewitová - mezzosoprano
Rudolf Měřinský - Renaissance & Baroque lutes, theorbo, alto

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