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I hope that one or two of you may be able to be at St John's Church, Leytonstone (quite near Leytonstone station, Central Line). London Gala Orchestra includes Hipocondrie by Zelenka in t heir 30...

I have a matter for exploration about Zelenka which could be an early subject for research under our new Ruler.

In the UK, I have listened to and been impressed on BBC Radio 3 with Clemency...

I took your recommendation, Msl, and loved most of it. But why can't they find a soprano who can sing in tune! It is a shame.

Andrew Hinds

I am a neutral about whether or not Johann Zach wrote ZWV 45 but he wrote a Requien in C Minor that had a World Premiere recording on Arte Nova Classics 74321 54241 2 dated 1995. Over two hours of...

Thanks for the suggestion that I'll try to follow up. (Edit 2: I have just ordered the CD and, following its arrival, thoroughly enjoy playing Schaffrath's CSWV C25. He is an excellent composer!...

There seems to be little relationship between your copies and mine.

The list of composers in my Da Capo edition was reprinted in the USA in 1977.

CPE Bach was in Volumes 12 & 13, Nichelmann in...

I bought a hard copy of "Le Tresor des Pianistes" with a fine blue binding about twenty years ago and it dealt with six composers. They were Goldberg 9 pages, Eberlin 33 pages, Mattheson 57 pages,...

Zelenka being a teacher had escaped me until recently except that I knew that Quantz had learned from him around 1719.

Now (thanks to DJ Dresden - and David Nelson last week), I have found that...

A quartet of "Discover Zelenka" people from East Sussex were in the audience and were delighted that so much Zelenka - a really good and varied programme - was given. A disappointment was that the...

I hear that 300 people were at the concert.

Unfortunately I could not get there. It would be good if someone could report how it went.

Zelenka is not new to the venue and I well remember what...

I was in the beautiful St James's Church, Picadilly, London W1 yesterday and am pleased to see that the performance of the Miserere has already been advertised in excellent detail. It is only next...

With the publication of John Eliot Gardner's "Music in the Castle of Heaven - A Portrait of Johann Sebastian Bach" and the mention on page 486 of "Bach's Bohemian Friend, Jan Dismas Zelenka" a few...

Back in about 1982 when no Zelenka masses seemed easily to be available, I obtained a photocopy of the only Zelenka mass held then by the British Museum. I have the photocopy still and it is an...

I was delighted to watch the dedication and joy of the performers who clearly love their Zelenka. Is this not enough!? I think that it is wonderful to have such an opportunity on Youtube and hope...

It is also now possible on YouTube to listen to ZWV 26 in a performance from Moscow Catholic Cathedral conducted by Nikolas Khondzinsky. It is not available on a CD and so we are fortunate to have...

What a wonderful work and how fascinating that it can receive such violently different interpretations that all seem to work. Your strings are very "clipped" at times and almost violent but, as with...

David Nelson's splendid Survey of Zelenka CD's (that I have discussed with him during several enjoyable meetings in Sussex) is favourable towards but does not put top Hermann Max's version (Capriccio...

There have been some wonderful performances recently from Adam Viktoria and others that twenty years ago could not have been hoped for. "Hitherto unimaginably fine performances" would fairly describe...

Dear Alistair,

David Nelson has alerted me to your important announcement and my quick reaction is to match the figure that David has offered. I guess that there must be at least ten individuals...

This is a wonderful performance of outstanding music. I bought the CD on a first-ever visit to Berlin in March and have recently had time to listen repeatedly to both works. I spend longest with...

Alfredo Bernadini (oboe) and Alberto Grazzi (bassoon) were two members of Ensemble Zefiro who provided a wonderful experience for us in 1993 with their performances of Zelenka's six Trio Sonatas on...

Please could Forum members tell us their Zelenka homage visits.

To help kick this off, my visit was a holiday with my wife in August 2007 and included homage visits to locations known to J. S....

I would like to ask Alistair to consider including the two CD set of Il Diamente in his "Outstanding CD's" listing. It falls into a rare category of music for Zelenka and yet he has excelled again. I...

Thanks for drawing attention to what may prove to be one of the events of 2010 for lovers of Zelenka's music.

Please look at my listing of what is on BBC Radio 3's "Composer of the Week"...

Here are the programmes extracted from the "Radio Times" 18 to 22 January 2010.

Monday Overture a 7 (ZWV188); Capriccio No 3 (ZWV184); Lamentation 1 (ZWV 53);Trio Sonata No 1 in F.

Tuesday -...