Karel Růžička Jr.: saxophones, Stanislav Mácha: piano, Petr Dvorský: double-bass, Jiří Slavíček: drums

Jaroslav Tůma, organ

Jaroslav Tůma: clavichords by Martin Kather (Hamburg)

Music For Two Keyboards, Three Or Four Hands And Two, Three And Four Feet

by Aurelio Bonelli, Johann Ludwig Krebs, Josef Blanco, Johann Christoph Kellner, Ernst Friedrich Gäbler, Karel Paukert, Jaroslav Tůma

Karel Paukert & Jaroslav Tůma - organ by Vladimír Šlajch, Borovany, 2007

CD 1 Philipp Jacob Rittler (c. 1639–1690)
CD 2 Thomas Antonio Albertini (1660–1736)
Societas Incognitorum, Eduard Tomaštík

CD 3 Václav Matyáš Gurecký (1705–1743)
CD 4 Josef Antonín Gurecký (1709–1769)
Musica Florea, Marek Štryncl

CD 5 Anton Neumann (c. 1720–1776)
CD 6 Josef Puschmann (1738–1794)
Musica Figuralis, Marek Čermák

Jirka Hála - ts, fl, Brian Seeger - g, John Gros - Hammond org, keys, voc, Brian Coogan - Hammond org, keys, Casandra Faulconer - el. b, George Sluppick - dr, Johnny Vidacovich - dr, Scott Bourgeois - as, Brent Rose - ts, Rick Trolsen - tb, Matt Perrine - sousaph, Irij Alah - bs

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...