Partitas, toccatas, preludes, fantasia and fugues

Jaroslav Tůma - the new church organ by Vladimír Šlajch, Borovany 2018

Danish String Quartet
Rune Tonsgaard Sørensen: violin; Frederik Øland: violin; Asbjørn Nørgaard: viola; Fredrik Schøyen Sjölin: violoncello

Jan Garbarek: soprano saxophone
The Hilliard Ensemble: David James: countertenor; Rogers Covey-Crump: tenor; Steven Harrold: tenor; Gordon Jones: baritone

+ Litaniae Omnium Sanctorum ZWV 53

Cyril Auvity - tenor
Marián Krejčík – bass
Gabriela Eibenová – soprano
Terry Wey – alto

Ensemble Inégal & Prague Baroque Soloists
conducted by Adam Viktora

+ Litaniae Xaverianae, ZWV 15

Gabriela Eibenová, Hana Blažíková – sopran, Jacob Huppmann – alto, Jaroslav Březina – tenor, Tomáš Král, Marian Krejčík – bass

Ensemble Inégal, Prague Baroque Soloists, conducted by Adam Viktora

Graupner, Bach J.S., Bach C.P.E., Štěpán, Mozart, Howells

Jaroslav Tůma - clavichord, Johann Christoph Georg Schiedmayer, 1787

Anima mea dilecta, Sonata 1 - 3, Threnodia hujus temporis, Parthia amabilis, Arietta cordialis
La Gambetta - on period instruments
World premiere recording

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.