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COMPOSERZELENKA, JAN DISMAS
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PERFORMERBoni Pueri, Musica Florea, ?Tryncl
Zelenka: Melodrama De Sancto Wenceslad / Stryncl, Musica Florea
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- Supraphon
- January 29, 2013
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RELEASE DATEJanuary 29, 2013
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UPC099925411329
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CATALOG NUMBERSU4113-2
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LABELSupraphon
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NUMBER OF DISCS2
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GENRE
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Symphonia
Composer: Jan Dismas Zelenka
Ensemble: Boni Pueri Boys Choir, Musica Florea, Ensemble Philidor, MusicaAeterna
Conductor: Marek Štryncl
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Prelude: Fortitudo mea
Composer: Jan Dismas Zelenka
Ensemble: Boni Pueri Boys Choir, Musica Florea, Ensemble Philidor, MusicaAeterna
Performer: Noemi Kiss, Anna Hlavenková, Markus Forster, Jaroslav Březina, Adam Zdunikowski, Ales Prochazka
Conductor: Marek Štryncl
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Prelude: Aria: Haec coeli
Composer: Jan Dismas Zelenka
Ensemble: Boni Pueri Boys Choir, Musica Florea, Ensemble Philidor, MusicaAeterna
Performer: Adam Zdunikowski
Conductor: Marek Štryncl
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Prelude: Recitative: Hem! Quoe ista?
Composer: Jan Dismas Zelenka
Ensemble: Boni Pueri Boys Choir, Musica Florea, Ensemble Philidor, MusicaAeterna
Performer: Noemi Kiss, Markus Forster
Conductor: Marek Štryncl
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Prelude: Aria: En! Pietatis adamas
Composer: Jan Dismas Zelenka
Ensemble: Boni Pueri Boys Choir, Musica Florea, Ensemble Philidor, MusicaAeterna
Performer: Noemi Kiss
Conductor: Marek Štryncl
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Prelude: Recitative: Dura certamina
Composer: Jan Dismas Zelenka
Ensemble: Boni Pueri Boys Choir, Musica Florea, Ensemble Philidor, MusicaAeterna
Performer: Ales Prochazka
Conductor: Marek Štryncl
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Prelude: Aria: Huc palmas deferte
Composer: Jan Dismas Zelenka
Ensemble: Boni Pueri Boys Choir, Musica Florea, Ensemble Philidor, MusicaAeterna
Performer: Ales Prochazka
Conductor: Marek Štryncl
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Prelude: Recitative: Haec summa gloriae
Composer: Jan Dismas Zelenka
Ensemble: Boni Pueri Boys Choir, Musica Florea, Ensemble Philidor, MusicaAeterna
Performer: Anna Hlavenková, Adam Zdunikowski
Conductor: Marek Štryncl
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Prelude: Aria: Allegro
Composer: Jan Dismas Zelenka
Ensemble: Boni Pueri Boys Choir, Musica Florea, Ensemble Philidor, MusicaAeterna
Performer: Anna Hlavenková
Conductor: Marek Štryncl
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Act I: Aria: I, Phoebe, umbras pelle
Composer: Jan Dismas Zelenka
Ensemble: Boni Pueri Boys Choir, Musica Florea, Ensemble Philidor, MusicaAeterna
Performer: Markus Forster
Conductor: Marek Štryncl
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Act I: Recitative: En, en fidei aemula
Composer: Jan Dismas Zelenka
Ensemble: Boni Pueri Boys Choir, Musica Florea, Ensemble Philidor, MusicaAeterna
Performer: Jaroslav Březina
Conductor: Marek Štryncl
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Act I: Aria: Huc virtutes festinate
Composer: Jan Dismas Zelenka
Ensemble: Boni Pueri Boys Choir, Musica Florea, Ensemble Philidor, MusicaAeterna
Performer: Jaroslav Březina
Conductor: Marek Štryncl
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Act I: Eja de figmentis
Composer: Jan Dismas Zelenka
Ensemble: Boni Pueri Boys Choir, Musica Florea, Ensemble Philidor, MusicaAeterna
Conductor: Marek Štryncl
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Act I: Recitative: Eja pietati
Composer: Jan Dismas Zelenka
Ensemble: Boni Pueri Boys Choir, Musica Florea, Ensemble Philidor, MusicaAeterna
Performer: Noemi Kiss, Markus Forster
Conductor: Marek Štryncl
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Act I: Aria: Jam calle secundo
Composer: Jan Dismas Zelenka
Ensemble: Boni Pueri Boys Choir, Musica Florea, Ensemble Philidor, MusicaAeterna
Performer: Markus Forster, Noemi Kiss
Conductor: Marek Štryncl
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Act I: Ritornello
Composer: Jan Dismas Zelenka
Ensemble: Boni Pueri Boys Choir, Musica Florea, Ensemble Philidor, MusicaAeterna
Conductor: Marek Štryncl
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Act I: Recitative: Nunquid non messis tritici est?
Composer: Jan Dismas Zelenka
Ensemble: Boni Pueri Boys Choir, Musica Florea, Ensemble Philidor, MusicaAeterna
Performer: Noemi Kiss, Markus Forster
Conductor: Marek Štryncl
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Act I: Aria: Meto culmos, lego spicas
Composer: Jan Dismas Zelenka
Ensemble: Boni Pueri Boys Choir, Musica Florea, Ensemble Philidor, MusicaAeterna
Performer: Noemi Kiss, Markus Forster
Conductor: Marek Štryncl
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Act II: Recitative: Quicinque glorificaverit me
Composer: Jan Dismas Zelenka
Ensemble: Boni Pueri Boys Choir, Musica Florea, Ensemble Philidor, MusicaAeterna
Performer: Adam Zdunikowski
Conductor: Marek Štryncl
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Act II: Aria: Angelicae mentes
Composer: Jan Dismas Zelenka
Ensemble: Boni Pueri Boys Choir, Musica Florea, Ensemble Philidor, MusicaAeterna
Performer: Adam Zdunikowski
Conductor: Marek Štryncl
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Act II: En prompti ad mandata
Composer: Jan Dismas Zelenka
Ensemble: Boni Pueri Boys Choir, Musica Florea, Ensemble Philidor, MusicaAeterna
Conductor: Marek Štryncl
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Act II: Aria: Ave Deus, ave redite
Composer: Jan Dismas Zelenka
Ensemble: Boni Pueri Boys Choir, Musica Florea, Ensemble Philidor, MusicaAeterna
Performer: Anna Hlavenková
Conductor: Marek Štryncl
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Act II: Recitative: Proh! quae aeris inclementia
Composer: Jan Dismas Zelenka
Ensemble: Boni Pueri Boys Choir, Musica Florea, Ensemble Philidor, MusicaAeterna
Performer: Jaroslav Březina
Conductor: Marek Štryncl
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Act II: Aria: Veni, lux perennis
Composer: Jan Dismas Zelenka
Ensemble: Boni Pueri Boys Choir, Musica Florea, Ensemble Philidor, MusicaAeterna
Performer: Jaroslav Březina
Conductor: Marek Štryncl
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Act II: Recitative: Per me reges regnant
Composer: Jan Dismas Zelenka
Ensemble: Boni Pueri Boys Choir, Musica Florea, Ensemble Philidor, MusicaAeterna
Performer: Anna Hlavenková, Ales Prochazka
Conductor: Marek Štryncl
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Act II: Aria: Exurge providentia
Composer: Jan Dismas Zelenka
Ensemble: Boni Pueri Boys Choir, Musica Florea, Ensemble Philidor, MusicaAeterna
Performer: Ales Prochazka
Conductor: Marek Štryncl
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Act II: Recitative: Corona gloriae in manu Domini
Composer: Jan Dismas Zelenka
Ensemble: Boni Pueri Boys Choir, Musica Florea, Ensemble Philidor, MusicaAeterna
Performer: Anna Hlavenková
Conductor: Marek Štryncl
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Act II: Recitative: Huc coeli principes
Composer: Jan Dismas Zelenka
Ensemble: Boni Pueri Boys Choir, Musica Florea, Ensemble Philidor, MusicaAeterna
Performer: Anna Hlavenková
Conductor: Marek Štryncl
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Act III: Aria: Reviresce, effloresce, pacisolea
Composer: Jan Dismas Zelenka
Ensemble: Boni Pueri Boys Choir, Musica Florea, Ensemble Philidor, MusicaAeterna
Performer: Markus Forster
Conductor: Marek Štryncl
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Act III: Recitative: Aptate tympana
Composer: Jan Dismas Zelenka
Ensemble: Boni Pueri Boys Choir, Musica Florea, Ensemble Philidor, MusicaAeterna
Performer: Jaroslav Březina
Conductor: Marek Štryncl
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Act III: Aria: Vive, regna
Composer: Jan Dismas Zelenka
Ensemble: Boni Pueri Boys Choir, Musica Florea, Ensemble Philidor, MusicaAeterna
Performer: Jaroslav Březina
Conductor: Marek Štryncl
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Act III: Aria: Nova gaudia, nova jubila
Composer: Jan Dismas Zelenka
Ensemble: Boni Pueri Boys Choir, Musica Florea, Ensemble Philidor, MusicaAeterna
Performer: Ales Prochazka
Conductor: Marek Štryncl
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Act III: Aria: En duplo sole Czechia
Composer: Jan Dismas Zelenka
Ensemble: Boni Pueri Boys Choir, Musica Florea, Ensemble Philidor, MusicaAeterna
Performer: Noemi Kiss
Conductor: Marek Štryncl
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Epilogue: Recitative: Eja! Eja votivi omnia
Composer: Jan Dismas Zelenka
Ensemble: Boni Pueri Boys Choir, Musica Florea, Ensemble Philidor, MusicaAeterna
Performer: Adam Zdunikowski
Conductor: Marek Štryncl
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Epilogue: Aria: Exsurge martis gloria
Composer: Jan Dismas Zelenka
Ensemble: Boni Pueri Boys Choir, Musica Florea, Ensemble Philidor, MusicaAeterna
Performer: Adam Zdunikowski
Conductor: Marek Štryncl
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Epilogue: Vos oriens adoret
Composer: Jan Dismas Zelenka
Ensemble: Boni Pueri Boys Choir, Musica Florea, Ensemble Philidor, MusicaAeterna
Performer: Noemi Kiss, Anna Hlavenková, Markus Forster, Jaroslav Březina, Ales Prochazka, Adam Zdunikowski
Conductor: Marek Štryncl
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Here's a case where the music so completely and satisfyingly transcends the texts, that we can thoroughly enjoy the proceedings without really having to know what all the singing and playing is about. The texts--the singing is in Latin--are in the most serious, heavily ornate, flowery Baroque poetic style, and are concerned with religious devoutness and allegorical representations of traits such as "Fortitude", "Suspicion", "Dignity", "Faith", and "Godliness". Even the work's title, which translates "Under the olive tree of peace and the palm tree of virtue the Crown of Bohemia splendidly shines before the whole world", tells you something of the solemnity and high importance of the occasion for which it was written: the 1723 coronation ceremony in Prague of Emperor Charles VI and his wife Elisabeth Christine. Zelenka's music, which amounts to a kind of oratorio-type structure--orchestral introductions and interludes, choruses, arias, and various other solo/choral combinations--actually was designed to accompany a dramatic presentation that also included dances and parts for actors. Fortunately for us today, we can sit back and just listen to some of the more delightful--sometimes breathtakingly powerful--music from this period that didn't come from the pen of Bach or Handel. Even Zelenka was impressed enough with some of the work's movements that he reused them in adapted form the following year for sections of his Te Deum.
The opening Sinfonia is a brilliant enough piece all on its own, but the chorus that immediately follows takes us to yet another level of excitement, setting a sumptuously decorated stage for what is to come. Although there's a substantial amount of music here, no one section stays too long, and the arias show care for musical beauty well beyond anything suggested by the texts. And there's nothing pale or simple in the writing either, whether for instruments or voices: much of it, especially the vocal solos, requires performers of considerable accomplishment, even virtuosity. The opening chorus is quite a tour de force, and in this performance we're treated to the lovely sound and impeccable technique of the boys' and men's voices of the Czech choir Boni Pueri. That this is a Czech production mirrors its original performance in Prague's Jesuit Clementinum, which not only involved native Czech singers and actors, but also was conducted by the Czech-born Zelenka. The orchestral writing, which includes such ceremonial staples as trumpets and timpani, used to great effect, is bright-spirited and masterfully constructed to hold our interest and maintain dramatic momentum. The soloists are generally very good and there's some really terrific interaction in duets and in dialogs with the chorus. The sound is full-bodied and sufficiently detailed to give immediate presence to all the performers while preserving appropriate balances. Anyone who enjoys large-scale Baroque choral/orchestral music will love this unusual and musically engaging work--another gem in the crown of a composer that's finally getting just recognition.
--David Vernier, ClassicsToday.com
Reviewing original release, Supraphon 3520
The opening Sinfonia is a brilliant enough piece all on its own, but the chorus that immediately follows takes us to yet another level of excitement, setting a sumptuously decorated stage for what is to come. Although there's a substantial amount of music here, no one section stays too long, and the arias show care for musical beauty well beyond anything suggested by the texts. And there's nothing pale or simple in the writing either, whether for instruments or voices: much of it, especially the vocal solos, requires performers of considerable accomplishment, even virtuosity. The opening chorus is quite a tour de force, and in this performance we're treated to the lovely sound and impeccable technique of the boys' and men's voices of the Czech choir Boni Pueri. That this is a Czech production mirrors its original performance in Prague's Jesuit Clementinum, which not only involved native Czech singers and actors, but also was conducted by the Czech-born Zelenka. The orchestral writing, which includes such ceremonial staples as trumpets and timpani, used to great effect, is bright-spirited and masterfully constructed to hold our interest and maintain dramatic momentum. The soloists are generally very good and there's some really terrific interaction in duets and in dialogs with the chorus. The sound is full-bodied and sufficiently detailed to give immediate presence to all the performers while preserving appropriate balances. Anyone who enjoys large-scale Baroque choral/orchestral music will love this unusual and musically engaging work--another gem in the crown of a composer that's finally getting just recognition.
--David Vernier, ClassicsToday.com
Reviewing original release, Supraphon 3520
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