SEEKING OUT BAROQUE MUSIC IN MORAVIA, BOHEMIA AND LEIPZIG / MK

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 Bennet 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

 

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