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Matthias Maute, Ensemble Caprice - Antonio Vivaldi: The Return of the Angels (2011)

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Matthias Maute, Ensemble Caprice - Antonio Vivaldi: The Return of the Angels (2011)

Matthias Maute, Ensemble Caprice - Antonio Vivaldi: The Return of the Angels (2011)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 258 Mb | Total time: 57:46 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Analekta | # AN29995 | Recorded: 2011

Following Ensemble Caprice’s first recording of Vivaldi’s sacred music (Gloria! Vivaldi and his Angels) we return to Vivaldi’s Venice and find ourselves yet again within the confines of the Ospedale della Pietà orphanage where, beginning in 1703, Vivaldi, the Red Priest, not only taught the orphan girls violin and singing, but also composed many of his most dazzling concertos as well as a substantial part of his highly inspired corpus of sacred music.

Hermann Max, Rheinische Kantorei - Jan Dismas Zelenka: Gesù al Calvario (2001)

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Hermann Max, Rheinische Kantorei - Jan Dismas Zelenka: Gesù al Calvario (2001)

Hermann Max, Rheinische Kantorei - Jan Dismas Zelenka: Gesù al Calvario (2001)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 499 Mb | Total time: 110:35 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Capriccio | # 10 887 | Recorded: 1999

In an age of artistic conformity, Jan Dismas Zelenka (1679-1745) had a refreshingly individual voice. In his own time he was described as 'a reserved, bigoted Catholic, but also a respectable, quiet, unassuming man, deserving of the greatest respect'. His music earned Bach's respect for its serious contrapuntal procedures; today's listeners, though, are more immediately charmed by Zelenka's quirky turns of phrase and flashes of original genius. There are plenty of these in the Passion oratorio Gesù al Calvario (1735), one of the composer's three late oratorios.

Magdalene Harer, Hannes Rux, Harmonie Universelle - Jauchzet Gott: Bach, Graupner, Zelenka (2023)

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Magdalene Harer, Hannes Rux, Harmonie Universelle - Jauchzet Gott: Bach, Graupner, Zelenka (2023)

Magdalene Harer, Hannes Rux, Harmonie Universelle - Jauchzet Gott: Bach, Graupner, Zelenka (2023)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 309 Mb | Total time: 66:39 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Accent | # ACC 24396 | Recorded: 2022

It was literally "highly virtuosic" when the great composers of the 18th century brought together solo soprano and clarinet trumpet in glorious praise of God. Johann Sebastian Bach's cantata Jauchzet Gott in allen Landen is a prominent example of this. That his courtly colleagues Jan Dismas Zelenka in Dresden and Christoph Graupner in Darmstadt were just as imaginative and effective when composing for their best interpreters is demonstrated by the ensemble Harmonie Universelle with Magdalene Harer (soprano) and Hannes Rux (trumpet) in the breathtaking solo parts.

Jana Semerádová, Collegium Marianum - Rorate Cœli: Music for Advent and Christmas in Baroque Prague (2009)

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Jana Semerádová, Collegium Marianum - Rorate Cœli: Music for Advent and Christmas in Baroque Prague (2009)

Jana Semerádová, Collegium Marianum - Rorate Cœli: Music for Advent and Christmas in Baroque Prague (2009)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 307 Mb | Total time: 59:04 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Supraphon | # SU 4002-2 | Recorded: 2003, 2005, 2009

In the rich musical life of early 18th century Prague, the Advent and Christmas seasons formed a chapter unto themselves. Their specific repertoire consisted not only of the themes of this liturgical season (including a strong element of the Marian cult), but also of special liturgical and musical forms. In both songs and figural music Czech suddenly appeared side by side with Latin, along with elements of folk religion and culture.

Chandos Baroque Players - Jan Dismas Zelenka: The Lamentations of Jeremiah (2002)

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Chandos Baroque Players - Jan Dismas Zelenka: The Lamentations of Jeremiah (2002)

Chandos Baroque Players - Jan Dismas Zelenka: The Lamentations of Jeremiah (2002)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 323 Mb | Total time: 73:01 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Hyperion | # CDH55106 | Recorded: 1990

These lamentations are beautifully conceived by Zelenka who has a knack for providing wonderful melodies imbued with mysticism and dignity both for chorus and orchestra. Each lamentation is about twenty four minutes long and is split into two parts that contain some crafty, intelligent writing. The three soloists are quite magnificent in their portrayals of Christ's passion with Michael George particularly impressive in all pieces.

Václav Luks, Collegium 1704 - Jan Dismas Zelenka: I Penitenti al Sepolchro del Redentore ZWV 63 (2009)

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Václav Luks, Collegium 1704 - Jan Dismas Zelenka: I Penitenti al Sepolchro del Redentore ZWV 63 (2009)

Václav Luks, Collegium 1704 - Jan Dismas Zelenka: I Penitenti al Sepolchro del Redentore ZWV 63 (2009)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 387 Mb | Total time: 71:40 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Zig-Zag Territoires | # ZZT 090803 | Recorded: 2008

Bohemian composer Jan Dismas Zelenka is a strong candidate for the greatest rediscovery of the Baroque revival. He worked for most of his career in Dresden (the booklet, in French and English, goes into a great deal of detail about the political determinants and musical implications of this fact), and Bach, who didn't admire many composers, admired him. Each new Zelenka work that emerges, if competently performed, seems to astonish, and I Penitenti al Sepolchro del Redentore, ZWV 63 (The Penitents at the Sepulchre of the Redeemer), composed late in Zelenka's career in 1736, is no exception. The work is a bit hard to get a grip on because of its odd genre. Annotator Vacláv Luks calls it a "sepolcro oratorio": it is a little religious semi-drama based on the idea that biblical figures, who may not (as in this case) actually meet in the Bible at all, gather at Christ's tomb and contemplate his divine mysteries.

Václav Luks, Collegium Vocale 1704 - Jan Dismas Zelenka: Missa votiva ZWV 18 (2008)

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Václav Luks, Collegium Vocale 1704 - Jan Dismas Zelenka: Missa votiva ZWV 18 (2008)

Václav Luks, Collegium Vocale 1704 - Jan Dismas Zelenka: Missa votiva ZWV 18 (2008)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 389 Mb | Total time: 71:06 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Zig-Zag Territoires | # ZZT 080801 | Recorded: 2007

The Missa Votiva, ZWV 18, of Czech-German composer Jan Dismas Zelenka was written in 1739, late in Zelenka's life. It has something in common with the String Quartet No. 15 in A minor, Op. 132, of Beethoven: both are late works written as prayers of thanksgiving after their respective composers' recovery from serious illness. And, although the Zelenka work is virtually unknown, both are staggering masterpieces. The more Zelenka's music surfaces, the more he appears a major composer of the late Baroque; he was probably ignored for so long because his life story, during eras when audiences loved to have biographies on which to hang music, is largely obscure.

Vaclav Luks, Collegium 1704 - Jan Dismas Zelenka: Responsoria pro hebdomada sancta; Lamentatio Ieremiae Prophetae (2012)

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Vaclav Luks, Collegium 1704 - Jan Dismas Zelenka: Responsoria pro hebdomada sancta; Lamentatio Ieremiae Prophetae (2012)

Václav Luks, Collegium 1704 - Jan Dismas Zelenka: Responsoria pro hebdomada sancta; Lamentatio Ieremiae Prophetae (2012)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 681 Mb | Total time: 78:28+79:59 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Accent | # ACC 24259 | Recorded: 2011

The music here was written for performance during Holy Week at the splendid Catholic court of Dresden in 1722. The example of Dresden stirred Johann Sebastian Bach to some of his most Italianate flights of opera-like music, and the composer of the Holy Week responsories heard here, the Bohemian-born Jan Dismas Zelenka (whom Bach himself admired), had an experimental, progressive spirit in much of his music. All the more of a surprise, then, to find that these pieces are written in an almost antique style. Each of the three Matins services is divided into three Nocturns, each of which is provided with three pairs of readings or lessons (given in chant) and three responsories, polyphonically set for a small choir (the two-singers-to-a-part forces heard here were apparently typical), with orchestral strings mostly doubling the vocal lines.

Deutsche Harmonia Mundi - La Discotheque Ideale: Baroque et Musique Ancienne - La Legende en 25 CDs (2013)

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Deutsche Harmonia Mundi - La Discotheque Ideale: Baroque et Musique Ancienne - La Legende en 25 CDs (2013)

Deutsche Harmonia Mundi - La Discothèque Idéale: Baroque et Musique Ancienne - La Légende en 25 CDs (2013)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 6.86 Gb | Total time: 25 h 25 min | Scans included
Classical | Label: Deutsche Harmonia Mundi/Sony Music | # 88883719232

This is an excellent and varied selection of composers from the very well known like Palestrina, Monteverdi, Bach and Vivaldi, through the less famous but familiar like Frescobaldi, Sainte-Colombe and Zelenka, to the downright obscure. It is all delightful: the musicians are uniformly excellent, and include such great names as Gustav Leonhardt, Cantus Colln, Christopher Hogwood and so on. They give fine performances both of the familiar works and of the less familiar ones. Obviously there will be discs you like more than others and you may already have favourite versions of some works, but these discs are never less than very good and are often outstanding.

Alex Potter, Dominik Kiefer, Capriccio Barockorchester - Jan Dismas Zelenka: Solo Motets (2012)

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Alex Potter, Dominik Kiefer, Capriccio Barockorchester - Jan Dismas Zelenka: Solo Motets (2012)

Alex Potter, Dominik Kiefer, Capriccio Barockorchester - Jan Dismas Zelenka: Solo Motets (2012)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 424 Mb | Total time: 81:10 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Pan Classics | # PC 10274 | Recorded: 2012

Jan Dismas Zelenka, court composer of August Elector of Saxony in Dresden, is steadily regaining his deserved reputation.In thi snew recording for Pan Classics, the accomplished young British countertenor Alex Potter succeeds in displaying a wide emotional range in selected works for alto solo: he dazzles with astounding virtuosity in the motet 'Barbara, dira effera' and soars in tender arcs of tension in his performance of the 'Christe eleison' from a late unfinished mass.

Václav Luks, Collegium 1704 - Jan Dismas Zelenka: Officium defunctorum ZWV 47, Requiem in D ZWV 46 (2011)

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Václav Luks, Collegium 1704 - Jan Dismas Zelenka: Officium defunctorum ZWV 47, Requiem in D ZWV 46 (2011)

Václav Luks, Collegium 1704 - Jan Dismas Zelenka: Officium defunctorum ZWV 47, Requiem in D ZWV 46 (2011)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 530 Mb | Total time: 61:26+40:04 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Accent | # ACC 24244 | Recorded: 2010

Jan Dismas Zelenka (1679-1745) Officium defunctorum ZWV 47 – Requiem in D ZWV 46 (Music for the funeral rites of Augustus the Strong) Jan Dismas Zelenka’s music for the funeral rites of Augustus the Strong – Officium defunctorum ZWV 47 (Invitatorium, Nocturno I-III) and Requiem ZWV 46 – reveals the most impressive face of the Baroque theatre of death. The man in the chief role of this spectacle follows the appeal in the 95th psalm of the introductory antiphon of the invitatorium “the King, in whom everything lives, let us worship Him”, and bows his head before God and the majesty of death.

Jakub Józef Orliński, Maxim Emelyanychev, Il Pomo d’oro - Anima Sacra (2018)

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Jakub Józef Orliński, Maxim Emelyanychev, Il Pomo d’oro - Anima Sacra (2018)

Jakub Józef Orliński, Maxim Emelyanychev, Il Pomo d’oro - Anima Sacra (2018)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 402 Mb | Total time: 75:37 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Erato | # 9029563374 | Recorded: 2018

The debut album from countertenor Jakub Józef Orliński – born in Warsaw, trained at New York’s Juilliard School, and 2016 winner of the Metropolitan Opera's prestigious National Council Auditions – Anima sacra features what are believed to be world premiere recordings of eight Baroque arias, notably by composers of the Neapolitan school. Orliński is partnered by Il pomo d’oro conducted by Maxim Emelyanychev.

Collegium 1704, Václav Luks - Jan Dismas Zelenka: Orchestral Works (2005)

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Collegium 1704, Václav Luks - Jan Dismas Zelenka: Orchestral Works (2005)

Collegium 1704, Václav Luks - Jan Dismas Zelenka: Orchestral Works (2005)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 01:07:45 | 387 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: Supraphon | Catalog: SU 3858-2

An innovative Baroque composer whose reputation was steadily on the rise during the anything-goes years of the waning twentieth century, Jan Dismas Zelenka was born in Lounovice, Bohemia (now part of the Czech Republic). He was a court musician in Dresden for most of his career, and both J.S. Bach and Georg Philipp Telemann knew and admired his music. Except for brief periods of travel, during which he refined his craft (he took lessons from Fux and Lotti even after his own technique had been perfected), he served as a double bass player in the court orchestra and later aided the ailing court music director Heinichen in his duties.

Zefiro, Alfredo Bernardini - The Baroque Collection [10CDs] (2019)

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Zefiro, Alfredo Bernardini - The Baroque Collection [10CDs] (2019)

Zefiro, Alfredo Bernardini - The Baroque Collection [10CDs] (2019)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 3.46 Gb | Total time: 11 h 20 min | Scans included
Classical | Label: Arcana | A202 | Recorded: 1993-2017

During the summer of 1989, oboists Alfredo Bernardini and Paolo Grazzi together with bassoonist Alberto Grazzi founded Zefiro, a versatile ensemble specialized in 18th century music predominantly featuring wind instruments. Zefiro soon made a name for itself worldwide, and to celebrate its thirty years of activity Arcana is releasing an elegant 10-CD set of their complete recordings of baroque music. From the ensemble’s first disc (Sonatas by Zelenka - Grand Prix du Disque), the compilation alternates recordings of repertoire composers and pieces that have become absolute points of reference, such as the Vivaldi Bassoon Concertos, Handel’s Fireworks (Diapason d’or de l’année 2009) or the Bach Overtures (judged by Gramaphone to be one of the 50 best Bach recordings of all time).

Marek Štryncl, Musica Florea, Musica Aeterna, Ensemble Philidor - Jan Dismas Zelenka: Sub olea pacis et palma virtutis (2001)

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Marek Štryncl, Musica Florea, Musica Aeterna, Ensemble Philidor - Jan Dismas Zelenka: Sub olea pacis et palma virtutis (2001)

Marek Štryncl, Musica Florea, Musica Aeterna, Ensemble Philidor, Boni Pueri - Jan Dismas Zelenka: Sub olea pacis et palma virtutis (2001)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 465 Mb | Total time: 105:11 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Supraphon | # SU 3520-2 232 | Recorded: 2000

Jednou z dominant letošního edičního plánu Supraphonu je světová premiéra historicky tak nepřehlédnutelného díla, jakým je korunovační opera Sub olea pacis největšího českého barokního skladatele Jana Dismase Zelenky (1679-1745). K velkolepé pražské korunovaci habsburského panovníka Karla VI. českým králem roku 1723 se připojili i pražští jezuité, když si u nejslavnějšího žijícího českého skladatele a navíc svého odchovance objednali velkolepou hudební fresku. Skladatel jejich přání s radostí vyhověl a dokonce své dílo přijel do Prahy nastudovat, a můžeme dnes říci, že se mu jeho tvůrčí pokus bezezbytku vyvedl. Více než hodinu a půl trvající skladba je jedním z nejlepších plodů barokní estetiky a navíc - po formální stránce - jednou ze čtyř úplně dochovaných tzv. školských her.