Pre-christmas concert

15/12/16, 19:30

ANTON ZIMMERMANN Sinfonia Pastoritia for cuckoo pipe, tuba pastoralis and orchestra,
JAKUB JAN RYBA Cassation in C for orchestra,
VÁCLAV JAN KOPŘIVA Missa pastoralis in D for soloists, choir and orchestra

soprano Lenka Cafourková
countertenor Martin Ptáček
tenor Jakub Kubín
bass  Jiří Miroslav Procházka
tuba pastoralis Rudolf Linner
Czech Ensemble Baroque Choir, choir director Tereza Válková
Brno Philharmonic, conductor Roman Válek

• Pastoral sinfoniaby Anton Zimmermann (1741–1781), the most important classicist composer in Slovakia
• Pastoral mass by Václav Jan Kopřiva (1708–1789), the founder of the Cítoliby school of composers, an important phenomenon of Czech classicism
Missa pastoralis in D – the first Christmas mass to contain, in addition to the obligatory ordinary parts of mass in Latin, Czech lyrics set to music