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Zelenka - Sepolcri | Supraphon SU40682

Zelenka - Sepolcri

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Label: Supraphon

Cat No: SU40682

Barcode: 0099925406820

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Vocal/Choral

Release Date: 12th December 2011

Contents

About

Jan Dismas Zelenka, the most distinctive figure of Czech Baroque music, no longer requires any introduction. His Prague works, however, have yet to be paid much attention - and unjustly so. The three sepolcri (cantatas intended for performance on Good Friday at the Holy Sepulchre) represent the earliest music of Zelenka’s that has been preserved, yet they are already truly singular pieces encompassing all the traits of their creator’s remarkable compositional style.

Zelenka created the pieces for Prague’s Klementinum, the oldest Jesuit college in Bohemia, and in a unique manner they serve to document the copious music performances that took place at the Saint Salvator Church, one of the most significant places on the “music map” of Baroque Prague. At this church, in 1709, Zelenka conducted the performance of the first sepolcro.

Three centuries later, the cantatas were recorded for the very first time (at the church located at the opposite end of the Charles Bridge) by Collegium Marianum, one of the finest Czech and European Baroque ensembles, together with four outstanding soloists.

Recorded in Church of Virgin Mary under the Chain, Prague, May 5–7, 2011.

Performed on period instruments.

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