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...

Miklós Perényi: violoncello

Czech and Moravian Christmas music of the 18th century

Victoria Ensemble 
Viktorie Kaplanová: artistic direction 

Rolf Lislevand: lutes, vihuela de mano, Linn Andrea Fuglseth: voice, Anna Maria Friman: voice, Giovanna Pessi: triple harp, Marco Ambrosini: nyckelharpa, Thor-Harald Johnsen: chitarra battente, vihuela de mano, lutes, Michael Behringer: clavichord, organ, Bjørn Kjellemyr: colascione, David Mayoral: percussion

Rolf Lislevand: Baroque guitar, theorbo

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...

Heinrich Schiff - violin, Heinrich Schiff - violoncello

Johann Sebastian Bach, Vít Zouhar, Ivo Medek/ Sára Medková, Frederic Rzewski

Sára Medková: piano, voice