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

Sonatae, Balletti scordati, Aria et variationes
Petr Wagner: viola da gamba
& Ensemble Tourbillon
Natalia Sitarz: harpsichord, organ positive
Jan Krejca: thorbo, Baroque guitar
Premysl Vacek: archlute
Robert Rawson: viola da gamba

Ritornello Fraucimor, directed by Michael Pospisil
Hana Blazikova - vocal, harp, drum, Katerina Dolezalova - vocal, harp, Hana Flekova - viola di gamba, Simona Holubcova - theorbo, Jana Lewitova - vocal, harp, viola, Lenka Mitasova - lutes, harp, Tereza Pavelkova - recorder, organ positive, vocal, Blazena Pechackova - vocal, violin, pochette, harp, Michael Pospisil - vocal, whistle-pipe, cornett, chalumeaux, organ positive

CAPELLA REGIA (directed by Robert Hugo):Anna Hlavenkova, Gabriela Eibenova, Marta Lopourova - soprano; Jan Mikusek, Petra Noskaiova - alto; Jaroslav Brezina, Vladimir Richter - tenor; Ales Prochazka, Miroslav Hromadka - bass; Daniel Deuter, Jirina Doubravska - violin; Mikolas Cech - viola; Hana Flekova - viola da gamba; Ondrej Stajnochr - violone; Stanislav Penk, Bretislav Kotrba, Bohuslav Rattay - trombone; Thomas Ihlenfeldt - theorbo, trombone; Martina Sindlerova - chamber organ; Robert Hugo - chamber organ, church organ

World premiere recording on period instruments

Joseph Renner: Sonáta g moll op. 29
Sigfrid Karg-Elert: Choral-Improvisationen op. 65/38: Jesu, meine Freude (Passacaglia)
Otomar Kvěch: Malá suita pro varhany (A Little Suite For Organ)
Johann Sebastian Bach: Passacaglia c moll BWV 582
Franz Liszt: Weinen, Klagen, Sorgen, Zagen. Variace na téma J. S. Bacha S.673

organ by G. F. Steinmeyer & Co, 1875 (Oettingen, a town in Bavaria)