christmas songs by the GINEVRA band

The name comes from the age of King Arthur - from the Scottish queen Ginevra. It was because of the fact that we were really interested in Irish and Scottish melodies.

The third Album of Vocal ensemble Gregoriana — the second one of its series In illo tempore. It is called according to the liturgical season which it illustrates — Tempus nativitatis (Christmas season). The aim of the series In illo tempore is to revive the old Slovak musical manuscripts dated before 1600.

directed by  Jan Mikušek & Marek Klein

Slovakian (from Kosice) vocal ensemble Gregoriana comes with theirs second CD, this time led by Czech conductor Jan Mikušek. Nova (new), in the form of sacred choral works by contemporary authors, is here by the Vetera (old) in the form of Gregorian chant. Of Slovak authors are represented by Martin Bako, Mirko Krajči, Víťazoslav cubic Matthew Simko and Peter Zagar, other countries represented Libor Dřevikovský and Zdeněk Lukáš (Czech Republic), Fabio Fresi (Italy), Rihards Dubra and Renate Stivrina (Latvia), Vytautas Miškinis (Lithuania), Javier Busto (Spain) and Imant Raminsh (Canada).

Jaroslav Tůma plays authentic keyboard version of Haydn's composition (1787) on the Paul McNulty fortepiano.

SACD

Pavel Zlámal – band leader, clarinet, tenor & baritone saxophone
Václav Pálka – drums
Juraj Valenčík – doublebass
Martin Konvička – grand piano, fender rhodes
Jaroslav Šťastný (Peter Graham) – hammond organ

Mikuláš Koska – french horn
Jozef Zimka – trumpet
Šimon Pavlík – trombone
Jana Zmeškalová – bassoon
Dalibor Vinklář – tuba
Edgar Mojdl – flutes, pipes, ocarina

featuring guest: Petr Rybíz Toman – lyrics, vocal