Vojtěch Semerád / artistic leader
Hana Blažíková, Barbora Kabátková – soprano
Daniela Čermáková – alto
Vojtěch Semerád, Tomáš Lajtkep – tenor
Tomáš Král, Roman Hoza – baritone
Jaromír Nosek – bass
Richard Šeda, Miroslav Kůzl – cornetto
Jakub Zívalík – alto trombone
Ondřej Sokol – tenor trombone
Bernhard Rainer – bass trombone
Jan Krejča – theorbo
Catalina Vicens – organ
Program:
Praga Magna / Music in Prague during the Reign of Rudolf II
Alessandro Orologio: Intrada
Orlando di Lasso: Confitebor tibi Domine
Philippe de Monte: Missa super Confitebor tibi Domine
Philippe de Monte:Languea a‘l vostro languir
Liberale Zanchi: Canzona a 4
Carolus Luython: Fuga Suavissima
Sanctus et Benedictus
Philippe de Monte: Già fu chi m’hebbe cara
Salomone Rossi: Sonata in dialogo detta la Viena
Jacob Regnart: Litanie de Virginis Mariae
Towards the end of the 16th century, Prague became the residential city of the Imperial Court. A great lover of the arts, Rudolf II invited to Prague the best artists of the time and thus transformed the provincial city into one of the cultural centres of renaissance Europe, providing it with lustre comparable to the royal courts in France and Spain. The programme comprises sacred and secular music by the court composer Philippe de Monte, as well as music by his contemporaries whose music was performed in Prague in Rudolf’s times.
