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Collegium 1704 is a Czech early music orchestra and choir founded in 1991 by the Czech conductor, harpsichordist and horn player Václav Luks. Luks was formerly horn soloist of the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin. Although founded while Luks was a student in Plzen, the seat of the orchestra is Prague. The Collegium Vocale 1704 and Amphion Wind Octet are sister ensembles.
The Collegium specialises in Baroque music, in particular that of Zelenka, Bach and Handel. All the performers are virtuosos, and often perform with other early music ensembles.
A number of performers appear regularly with the Collegium. These include:
Collegium Vocale 1704:
In addition, Hana Blažíková and Marketa Cukrová often appear as soloists.
Jan Dismas Zelenka (baptised Jan Lukáš Zelenka; 16 October 1679 – 23 December 1745), also known as Johann Dismas Zelenka, was a Czech composer and musician of the Baroque period. His music is admired for its harmonic inventiveness and counterpoint.
Zelenka was born in Louňovice pod Blaníkem (German: Launiowitz), a small market town southeast of Prague, in Bohemia. He was the eldest of the eight children born to Marie Magdalena (née Hájek) and Jiří Zelenka. The middle name Dismas is probably his confirmation name. Zelenka's father Jiří was a schoolmaster and organist in Launiowitz, and it is likely that Zelenka received his musical lessons with him. However, nothing more is known with certainty about Zelenka's early years. He received his musical training at the Jesuit college Clementinum in Prague. His instrument was the violone (or bass viol). His first works were probably written in Prague, and his earliest known work Via laureta (ZWV 245) was composed in 1704. The music is lost, but a libretto still exists.
Pavel Steidl (born June 24, 1961) is a classical guitarist who was born in Rakovnik, Czechoslovakia (now in the Czech Republic), but has lived in the Netherlands for many years. After winning first prize at the 1982 International Guitar Competition of Radio France in Paris, Steidl began his career as a professional musician.
"Here was a guitarist who knew how to laugh with the music and share the joke with his audience. But behind the entertainer lies a serious artist, whose extended composition in memory of Jana Obrovska proved fully capable of stirring emotions at the other end of the scale. Never was a standing ovation more richly deserved. Pavel Steidl had won the hearts and minds of a capacity crowd." (Classical guitar magazine)
Since he won first prize at the Radio France International Competition in Paris in 1982, he has become one of the most widely celebrated soloists of his generation. Among the members of the jury were such artists as Alexandre Tansman, Antonio Lauro and Maria Luisa Anido.
D major (or the key of D) is a major scale based on D, consisting of the pitches D, E, F♯, G, A, B, and C♯. Its key signature consists of two sharps. Its relative minor is B minor and its parallel minor is D minor.
D major is well-suited to violin music because of the structure of the instrument, which is tuned G D A E. The open strings resonate sympathetically with the D string, producing a sound that is especially brilliant. This is also the case with all other orchestral strings.
It is thus no coincidence that many classical composers throughout the centuries have chosen to write violin concertos in D major, including those by Mozart (No. 2, 1775, No. 4, 1775); Ludwig van Beethoven (1806); Paganini (No. 1, 1817); Brahms (1878); Tchaikovsky (1878); Prokofiev (No. 1, 1917); Stravinsky (1931); and Korngold (1945).
It is appropriate for guitar music, with drop D tuning making two Ds available as open strings. For some beginning wind instrument students, however, D major is not a very suitable key, since it transposes to E major on B-flat wind instruments, and beginning methods generally tend to avoid keys with more than three sharps.
I was glad (Latin incipit, Laetatus sum) is an introit commonly used in the Anglican church, and also used as an anthem traditionally sung at the coronation of the British monarch. Its most famous setting was written in 1902 by Sir Hubert Parry, which sets only verses 1–3,6,7.
The text of the anthem consists of verses from Psalm 122, from the psalter found in the 1662 Book of Common Prayer:
Jan Dismas Zelenka also known as Johann Dismas Zelenka, was a Czech composer and musician of the Baroque period. His music is admired for its harmonic inventiveness and counterpoint. Zelenka's pieces are characterized by very daring compositional structure, with a highly spirited harmonic invention and perfection of the art of counterpoint. His works are often virtuosic and difficult to perform, but always fresh and surprising, with sudden turns of harmony, being always a challenge for their interpreters.[citation needed] In particular, his writing for bass instruments is far more demanding than that of other composers of his era. His instrumental works (the trio sonatas, capricci, and concertos) are exemplary models of his early style (1710s–1720s). The six trio sonatas demand high virtuo...
COMMENT AND SUNG TEXT/ TRANSLATIONS This unforgettable, ultra-rare perfomance of Jan Dismas Zelenka's extensive number setting of the Psalm 122(1) "Laetatus sum" (ZWV 90) took place in Hamburg's Concert Hall Laeiszhalle 23.09.2011. Unfortunately, this shaky amateur recording done by myself from the audience is all I can offer ( but at least the music is excellent...). Soloists Gemma Bertagnolli (s) & Delphine Galou (a) fascinated with their artistry, backed up by the always outstanding Collegium 1704, directed by Václav Luks. According to Zelenka expert Janice Stockigt, Zelenka probably composed the demanding vocal parts for two Italian castrati who arrived in Dresden in 1730. Secure knowledge about ZWV 90's original performance circumstances is however inattainable, because the autogr...
__ • Zelenka: Officium Defunctorum & Requiem in D major __ • Katerina Knezikova: soprano • Mariana Rewerski: mezzosoprano • Marketa Cukrova: alto • Jaroslav Brezina: tenor • Tobias Berndt: bass • Tomas Kral: bass Collegium 1704 Conducted by Václav Luks Ensemble website: http://www.collegium1704.com • Directed by Louise Narboni © Broadcast by Mezzo, 2009 __
Festival Oude Muziek 25 augustus 2012, Domkerk Utrecht Jan Dismas Zelenka (1679--1745) Missa Omnium Sanctorum ZWV 21 Kyrie Gloria Credo Sanctus Agnus Dei COLLEGIUM 1704 Václav Luks Solisten: Alena Hellerová , sopraan Kamila Mazalová, alt Václav Cížek, tenor Tomáš Král, bas Collegium Vocale 1704: Barbora Sojková, Alena Hellerová, Dora Pavlíková, Kamila Zborilová, Joanna Klisowska, sopraan Kamila Mazalová, Marta Fadljevicová, Jan Mikušek, Daniela Cermákovám, alt Václav Cížek, Hasan El-Dunia, Cenek Svoboda, Tomáš Lajtkep, tenor Tomáš Král, Jaromír Nosek, Martin Vacula, Aleš Procházka, bas Collegium 1704: Helena Zemanová, Petra Šcevková, Martin Kalista, Peter Barczi, Eva Borhi, viool 1 Jana Chytilová, Simona Tydlitátová, Markéta Knittlová, Jan Hádek, viool 2 Lýdie Cillerová, Eleonora Machová...
Fotografie Martina Sedláka dokumentující proces výroby porcelánových návrhů studentů Atelieru Karel ÚPD FAČVUT. 11.12.14-17.12.14 / 5.1.15 - 9.1.15 / Realizační centrum FUD UJEP v Dubí. Technická podpora a Realizace - Antonín Tomášek,Martin Zelenka,Jana Linhartová
www.avrotros.nl/klassiek Radio Filharmonisch Orkest o.l.v. Serge Baudo, m.m.v.: Eva Hornyáková, sopraan Janina Baechle, sopraan Benjamin Hulett, tenor Andrew Schroeder, bas-bariton A. Dvorak - Mis, op. 86 Openingsconcert de Vrijdag van Vredenburg seizoen 2014-2015 Opgenomen op 19 september 2014 in TivoliVredenburg, Utrecht Voor de pauze werd gespeeld: H. Berlioz - Ouverture 'Le Roi Lear', op. 4 J. Wagenaar - Aveux de Phèdre Bekijk het deel voor de pauze op onze site: http://web.avrotros.nl/cultuur/klassiek/nieuws/20140919_vvv.aspx Kijk voor meer concerten op: http://www.avrotros.nl/klassiek http://Facebook.com/AVROTROS.klassiek - http://Twitter.com/klassiekonline
__ • Zelenka: Requiem in D major __ • Katerina Knezikova: soprano • Mariana Rewerski: mezzosoprano • Marketa Cukrova: alto • Jaroslav Brezina: tenor • Tobias Berndt: bass • Tomas Kral: bass Collegium 1704 Conducted by Václav Luks Ensemble website: http://www.collegium1704.com • Directed by Louise Narboni © Broadcast by Mezzo, 2009 __
Lento Recorded in 1928 The Bohemian Quartet (Czech: České kvarteto; known as the Czech Quartet after 1918) were a Czech string quartet of international repute that was founded in 1891 and disbanded in 1934. The Quartet was founded in Budapest by three pupils of Antonín Bennewitz (Karel Hoffmann, Josef Suk and Oskar Nedbal) and a pupil of Hanuš Wihan (Otakar Berger); Bennewitz and Wihan were both teachers at the Prague Conservatory. Wihan had himself studied at Prague, and was cellist of the chamber quartet of Ludwig II in Munich, becoming Professor at Prague in 1888. He replaced his student Otakar Berger as cellist in the quartet when Berger died prematurely. Wihan then directed the Quartet until 1913 when the strain of touring obliged him to retire from it and resume his teaching. His p...
Kytarový virtuóz Pavel Steidl se narodil v Rakovníku. Na kytaru začal hrát v osmi letech a jeho prvním učitelem byl jeho bratr. Vystudoval pražskou konzervatoř, kde ho učili mimo jiné Milan Zelenka a Arnošt Sádlík. Ve studiu pokračoval na pražské Akademii múzických umění, tam jej vedl uznávaný kytarový virtuóz Štěpán Rak. Mimo klasického studia sbíral Pavel Steidl zkušenosti také návštěvami mistrovských tříd, které vedli David Russell a Abel Carlevaro. Další cenné zkušenosti získal účastí v mnoha soutěžích a na řadě hudebních festivalů. Koncertoval ve více než třiceti zemích světa jako Kanada, Kuba, Španělsko, Polsko, Rakousko, Kostarika, Guatemala, Austrálie, Japonsko, Velká Británie, Mexiko a mnoho dalších. Nahrál mnoho skladeb světového repertoáru a českých skladatelů nejen minulosti,...