improvisation through the centuries - from gothic tablatures to modern jazz

Jiri Stivin - flutes, recorders, saxophones, clarinets, chalumeaux; Alan Vitous - percussion; Petra Noskaiova - soprano; Jan Mikusek - alto; Richard Sporka - tenor; Michael Pospisil - bass; Marek Spelina - recorder; Julie Sukupova - recorder; Hana Flekova - viola da gamba; Robert Hugo - harpsichord, regal

moravian folk songs in new arrangements

Jiří Hodina - vocal, violin; Martina Přibylová - piano; Ondřej Škoch - guitar, background vocals; Tadeáš Mesany - double-bass;
and guests: Leona Prokopcová - vocal; Štepán Škoch - clarinet, soprano saxophone, Irish flute; Vítězslav Janda - tambourine, drum, hop

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.

Ensemble Mondschein, Prague Philharmonia
contemporary music

Hasse, Leo, Lotti, Pergolesi, Vinci, Vivaldi

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...

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?
Complete works - World premiere recording on period instruments