Richter: Super flumina Babylonis, Miserere

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Label: Supraphon
Release Date: October 25, 2019

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Featuring ⌄

COMPOSER

RICHTER, FRANZ XAVER
ORCHESTRA / ENSEMBLE

Czech Ensemble Baroque Orchestra & Choir
PERFORMER

Bohmova, Radostova, Olech, Mazalova, Brezina, Kubin, Proch

Product Details ⌄

RELEASE DATE

October 25, 2019
UPC

099925427429
CATALOG NUMBER

SU4274-2
LABEL

Supraphon
NUMBER OF DISCS

1
GENRE

Classical

Works ⌄

Allegro spiritoso

Composer: Franz Xaver Richter

Ensemble: Czech Ensemble Baroque Orchestra

Conductor: Roman Válek
Andante

Composer: Franz Xaver Richter

Ensemble: Czech Ensemble Baroque Orchestra

Conductor: Roman Válek
Presto

Composer: Franz Xaver Richter

Ensemble: Czech Ensemble Baroque Orchestra

Conductor: Roman Válek
Andante poco (Chorus)

Composer: Franz Xaver Richter

Ensemble: Czech Ensemble Baroque Choir, Czech Ensemble Baroque Orchestra

Conductor: Roman Válek
In salicibus in medio ejus

Composer: Franz Xaver Richter

Ensemble: Czech Ensemble Baroque Choir, Czech Ensemble Baroque Orchestra

Conductor: Roman Válek
Aria: Allegro comodo (tenor) - Quia illis interrogaverunt nos

Composer: Franz Xaver Richter

Ensemble: Czech Ensemble Baroque Orchestra

Performer: Jaroslav Bøezina

Conductor: Roman Válek
Aria: Allegretto (soprano) - Quomodo cantabimus?

Composer: Franz Xaver Richter

Ensemble: Czech Ensemble Baroque Orchestra

Performer: Markéta Böhmová

Conductor: Roman Válek
Duet: A tempo giusto (soprano, alto) - Adhaereat lingua mea

Composer: Franz Xaver Richter

Ensemble: Czech Ensemble Baroque Orchestra

Performer: Pavla Radostová, Piotr Olech

Conductor: Roman Válek
Aria: Maestoso con spirito (bass) - Memor esto, Domine

Composer: Franz Xaver Richter

Ensemble: Czech Ensemble Baroque Orchestra

Performer: Jiři Miroslav Procházka

Conductor: Roman Válek
Fugato e spiritoso: Largo (chorus) - Filia Babylonis misera

Composer: Franz Xaver Richter

Ensemble: Czech Ensemble Baroque Choir, Czech Ensemble Baroque Orchestra

Conductor: Roman Válek
Lento - Miserere mei, Deus (Chorus)

Composer: Franz Xaver Richter

Ensemble: Czech Ensemble Baroque Choir, Czech Ensemble Baroque Orchestra

Conductor: Roman Válek
Andante - Amplius lava me (Chorus)

Composer: Franz Xaver Richter

Ensemble: Czech Ensemble Baroque Choir, Czech Ensemble Baroque Orchestra

Performer: Pavla Radostová, Piotr Olech, Jakub Kubín

Conductor: Roman Válek
Asperges me (Chorus)

Composer: Franz Xaver Richter

Ensemble: Czech Ensemble Baroque Choir, Czech Ensemble Baroque Orchestra

Conductor: Roman Válek
Aria: Allegretto (soprano)

Composer: Franz Xaver Richter

Ensemble: Czech Ensemble Baroque Choir, Czech Ensemble Baroque Orchestra

Performer: Pavla Radostová

Conductor: Roman Válek
Cor mundum (Chorus)

Composer: Franz Xaver Richter

Ensemble: Czech Ensemble Baroque Choir, Czech Ensemble Baroque Orchestra

Conductor: Roman Válek
Aria: Andante grazioso (alto)

Composer: Franz Xaver Richter

Ensemble: Czech Ensemble Baroque Choir, Czech Ensemble Baroque Orchestra

Performer: Piotr Olech

Conductor: Roman Válek
Moderato: Redde mihi (Chorus)

Composer: Franz Xaver Richter

Ensemble: Czech Ensemble Baroque Choir, Czech Ensemble Baroque Orchestra

Performer: Pavla Radostová, Piotr Olech, Jiři Miroslav Procházka

Conductor: Roman Válek
Aria: Domine, labia mea aperies (Bass)

Composer: Franz Xaver Richter

Ensemble: Czech Ensemble Baroque Choir, Czech Ensemble Baroque Orchestra

Performer: Jiři Miroslav Procházka

Conductor: Roman Válek
Aria: Con brio (tenor) - Quoniam si voluisses

Composer: Franz Xaver Richter

Ensemble: Czech Ensemble Baroque Choir, Czech Ensemble Baroque Orchestra

Performer: Jakub Kubín

Conductor: Roman Válek
Grave: Sacrificium Deo (Chorus)

Composer: Franz Xaver Richter

Ensemble: Czech Ensemble Baroque Choir, Czech Ensemble Baroque Orchestra

Conductor: Roman Válek
Duet: Allegretto grazioso (soprano, alto) - Benigne fac Domine

Composer: Franz Xaver Richter

Ensemble: Czech Ensemble Baroque Choir, Czech Ensemble Baroque Orchestra

Performer: Markéta Böhmová, Kamila Mazalová

Conductor: Roman Válek
Adagio: Tunc acceptabis (Chorus)

Composer: Franz Xaver Richter

Ensemble: Czech Ensemble Baroque Choir, Czech Ensemble Baroque Orchestra

Conductor: Roman Válek
Tunc imponent (Chorus)

Composer: Franz Xaver Richter

Ensemble: Czech Ensemble Baroque Choir, Czech Ensemble Baroque Orchestra

Conductor: Roman Válek

For the 60-year-old Franz Xaver Richter, a composer of Moravian origin living and working in France, the spring of 1769 was a true watershed in his career. When, two years previously, he joined a competition held by Concert Spirituel, a major French music institution, he evidently had in mind being employed as a musician in Paris. The contestants' task was to compose a "motet à grand chœur", encompassing a sequence of arias, ensembles and choruses, set to the Latin text of Psalm 136, Super flumina Babylonis. Although Richter failed to win the competition, his work arouse great interest and on 28 March 1769 it premiered within the Concert Spirituel series at the Tuileries Palace, at the largest music venue in Paris at the time. Less than a month later, Richter was appointed the Maitre de Chapelle de Notre Dame de Strasbourg. The motet Super flumina Babylonis undoubtedly played a significant role in his being named to the prestigious post. Over the first years he spent in Strasbourg (1770-73), Richter wrote three settings of Psalm 50, Miserere mei Deus, intended for the night liturgy of Tenebrae, a religious service held during the three days preceding Easter. In addition to Super flumina Babylonis, the present album features the third setting of the Miserere, in F minor, in a premiere recording. In their fourth album of Richter's music, Czech Ensemble Baroque discover the yet to be mapped legacy of the distinguished 18th-century composer.