"Jiz Slunce z Hvezdy vyslo" [The Sun has Come Forth from the Star]
Ritornello directed by Michael Pospisil
featuring Vox Bohemica children choir (directed by Tomas Charvat), Vox Nymburgensis (directed by Jan Mikusek), Collegium 419
World premiere recording

John Potter: voice; Anna Maria Friman: voice & Hardanger fiddle;
Ariel Abramovich & Jacob Heringman: lutes

Italian Love Songs of the 17th century, from the Lobkowicz Collection in Bohemia

Ivana Bilej Brouková: soprano, Markéta Cukrová: mezzo-soprano, Jan Krejča: theorbo, Baroque guitar, Renaissance lute, Miloslav Študent: archlute, Baroque guitar, Renaissance lute, Petr Wagner: viola da gamba, Tomáš Reindl: percussion

new period music inspired by the famous vocal collection by Adam Václav Michna (selection from the Czech Marian Music, 1647) 
composed and performed by Jaroslav Tůma 

organ from Kruh (1627) in the cathedral of St Stephen in Litoměřice

Hollan's hymnal CAPELLA REGIA MUSICALIS (1693/94) is unique in the world, for several important reasons. Its relatively large format (A4) was rarely used anywhere. It was so big that it required a music stand. It was not, however, meant only to remain standing in the church as a counterpart to the liturgical books on the altar; it was intended for use in processions, schools, at table in peoples' homes, and at the bedside (for morning, evening, and wedding songs). Some of the songs seem to have come running in from a small grove, park, garden, or field-path, or, conversely, running back to them. It contains songs for a small Bohemian Ordinary, next to evensongs, songs for the congregation, solo 'arias' for professionals - the acolytes. Some of the songs allow the accompanying organist to 'shine'; others have been furnished much less modestly with parts not just for the organ but for many other instruments as well. No other nation in the world can boast such an accomplishment.