DISCOGRAPHY

Pavel Josef Vejvanovský (1639-1693)

Vesperae Sancti Venceslai

World premiere recording

Lukáš Sádovský – soprano (Boni Pueri)
Martin Ptáček – countertenor (Boni Pueri)
Jaroslav Březina – tenor
Michael Pospíšil – bass

Český chlapecký sbor BONI PUERI (Czech Boy‘s Choir)
Artistic director Pavel Horák
Choirmaster Jakub Martinec

MUSICA FLOREA
Artistic director & conductor Marek ŠTRYNCL

Supraphon is issuing the world premiere recording of previously-unknown sacred music from the archive in Kroměříž by the important Czech Baroque composer Pavel Josef Vejvanovský (ca. 1640-93), who was head of the palace music ensemble of the Bishop of Olomouc, Karel Lichtenstein-Castelcorno, in Kroměříž starting in 1670. This composer, very educated for his time, prolific, well-rounded, and stylistically progressive, makes plentiful use of effective brass instruments, especially trumpets. An important role in the recording is also played by the captivatingly-colorful and transparently-pure boys' choir. The disc is full of contrasts: richly-textured vocal-instrumental music is interspersed with ascetic antiphons that lend the recording a mystical, religious effect. Along with distinguished soloists and the boys' choir, Musica Florea and its artistic director and conductor Marek Štryncl assure first-class artistic quality and a historically-informed stylistic conception.

Musica Florea

Dagmar Valentová - baroque violin
Simona Tydlitátová - baroque violin
Lýdie Cillerová - baroque viola
Peter Krivda - viola da gamba
Hana Fleková - baroque cello
Ondřej Štajnochr - baroque double-bass
Přemysl Vacek - archlute
Iva Štrynclová - positive organ
Jaroslav Rouček - baroque trumpet
Johann Plietzsch - baroque trumpet
Stanislav Penk – baroque alto trombone
Josef Trnka – baroque tenor trombone
Pavel Štrobl – baroque bass trombone


Recording director: Petr Řezníček
Recording engineer: Aleš Dvořák
Sound assistant: Jan Zahradník
Parts compiled by: Michael Pospšíl

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Total time: 50:42

Supraphon a.s. 2002
SU 3535-2 231