Ivan Myslikovjan - alto saxophone, EWI, Boris Urbánek - keyboards, vocal, Andrej Šeban - guitars, Jenny Krompolc - bassguitar, Michal Hejna - drums, Emil Frátrik - drums, Pavel Plánka - percussion

Jaroslav Tůma: clavichords by Martin Kather (Hamburg)

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

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...