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

Ritornello Fraucimor, directed by Michael Pospisil
Hana Blazikova - vocal, harp, drum, Katerina Dolezalova - vocal, harp, Hana Flekova - viola di gamba, Simona Holubcova - theorbo, Jana Lewitova - vocal, harp, viola, Lenka Mitasova - lutes, harp, Tereza Pavelkova - recorder, organ positive, vocal, Blazena Pechackova - vocal, violin, pochette, harp, Michael Pospisil - vocal, whistle-pipe, cornett, chalumeaux, organ positive

organ in the Smetana hall, Obecni dum, Praha