Musica Florea, conducted by Marek Štryncl

World premiere recording on period instruments.
Live recording.

Marek Štryncl & Musica Florea
Live recording

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

Kryštof Marek: piano
Ondřej Štajnochr: double-bass
Josef Vejvoda: drums

Johann Sebastian Bach, Dietrich Buxtehude, Johann Caspar Ferdinand Fischer, Johann Erasmus Kindermann, Nicolas Lebègue, Johann Pachelbel, Hieronymus Praetorius, Heinrich Scheidemann, Samuel Scheidt, Jean Titelouze, Jaroslav Tůma

Jaroslav Tůma plays organ from 1712 by Tobias Fleck, reconstructed by Vladimír Šlajch (2019)
Pavel Šmolík and Schola Cantorum Pilsensis co-perform in the chants

Miroslav Nosek: guitars
Jakub Dvořáček: piano, nord stage
Štěpán Zbytovský: flutes, bass clarinet
Jan Keller: cello, bassguitar
Jan Dvořák: drums

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?
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