the complete recording

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

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

Sonata in B minor, BWV 1030, Partita in A minor, BWV 1013, Sonata in E minor, BWV 1034, Suite in C minor, BWV 997

Yoshimi Oshima: flute
Jaroslav Tůma: harpsichord, organ

ASTOR PIAZZOLLA: La Historia del Tango, Oblivion
CHRISTOPH WILLIBALD GLUCK: Ballet “Dance of the Furies” from the opera “Orpheus and Eurydice”
PAUL AGRICOLE GENIN: Carnaval de Venise
SIGFRID KARG-ELERT: Sonata in F sharp minor for flute solo, Op. 140
CHARLES GOUNOD: Ave Maria

Yoshimi Oshima: flute
Jaroslav Tůma: harpsichord, organ

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