Pre-Christmas concert
JOSEF SCHREIER
Missa pastoralis boemica (Moravian Christmas Mass “Čuj, Miko, čuj!”)
JIŘÍ IGNÁC LINEK
Missa pastoralis ex F
JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH
Magnificat in E flat major, BWV 243a
Alena Hellerová soprano
Eva Kolková soprano
Markéta Cukrová alto
Václav Čížek tenor
Lukáš Zeman baritone
Czech Ensemble Baroque Choir
choir director Tereza Válková
Brno Philharmonic
conductor Vojtěch Spurný
• 300 years since the birth of Josef Schreier, a native of Dřevohostice near Přerov and a cantor and choir director in Bílovice near Uherské Hradiště • Using texts in both Latin and the local dialect, Schreier’s pastoral mass is one of the most interesting products of Moravian Baroque-era cantors • In the eighteenth century Schreier wrote Christmas masses within the Franciscan tradition • A pastoral mass by Jiří Ignác Linek, a cantor and choir director in Bakov nad Jizerou • Bach’s Magnificat (in a Christmas version) dating from the composer’s Leipzig period
