improvisations on themes from the cycle of symphonic poems 'My Country' by Bedřich Smetana

Jaroslav Tůma - organs (in Vyšehrad, Hejnice, Žlutice, Litoměřice, Kladruby, Zbraslav, Mikulov, Bezděz)

Joseph Renner: Sonáta g moll op. 29
Sigfrid Karg-Elert: Choral-Improvisationen op. 65/38: Jesu, meine Freude (Passacaglia)
Otomar Kvěch: Malá suita pro varhany (A Little Suite For Organ)
Johann Sebastian Bach: Passacaglia c moll BWV 582
Franz Liszt: Weinen, Klagen, Sorgen, Zagen. Variace na téma J. S. Bacha S.673

organ by G. F. Steinmeyer & Co, 1875 (Oettingen, a town in Bavaria)  

Schola strahoviensis – Gorazd Krušina, Ambrož Šámal, Jan Samiec, Řehoř Žáček, Christian Pšenička
Jakub Janšta – organ in Chyšky

In this performance by the Schola of the Strahov Premonstratensians, traditional liturgical songs blend in unique harmony with the organist Jakub Jansta, who introduces the new organ at Chysky with his improvisations and the compositions of J.S.Bach. The organ, constructed by the Italian organ builder Giovanni Pradella, has the noble task of stirring and rousing not only the space of the church but, above all, the souls of the listeners to the glory of the Triune God. This recording is an expression of gratitude to all those who supported the ‚Pradella organ project‘.

Ludmila Dvořáková, Peter Höngesberg, Michaela Káčerková, Vladimír Kopáčik, Juraj Mičúnek, Ivana Michalovičová, Marek Mosnár, Daniel Knut Pernet, Marie Pochopová, Juraj Slovík, Tomasz Soczek, Pavel Svoboda, Ondřej Valenta, Marie Zahrádková, Iveta Zaťková

Organ by Egedacher 1732, Späth 1750, Výmola 1760, Sauer 1874, Schlag & Söhne 1899, Schuke 1905, 1908, Šlajch 2004, 2013, Mathis 2014

Alfred Strejček - reading
Pražští pěvci, choirmaster Stanislav Mistr
Pavel Šmolík - organ