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From the short samples at CD Baby, quite nice and expertly played. However, be warned, CD Baby has decided recently not to sell CD quality FLAC downloads any more. What you get when you download...

Sorry, but for me, on modern instruments Zelenka, like Telemann, sounds bland and uninteresting, no matter how virtuosically played. So much of the music depends on texture and balance between the...

The crowd funding campaign details are here:

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/support-record-of-zelenka-missa-divi-xaverii

Monika,

Sorry not to reply before this, but I did not return to the forum since posting that link.

I think the answer is that the norm in eighteenth-century Germany was that choirs tended to be...

Did anyone attend the exciting October events in Prague? it would be especially interesting to hear whether the meeting of international Zelenka fans took place.

I don't wish to start a willy-willy of argument, but I have always been puzzled by the adulation Carolyn Sampson has received for her eighteenth-century baroque recordings. Her voice is often...

Not an answer about where to find the score, but with regard to the double choir issue, see:

http://www.bachnetwork.co.uk/ub9/UB9-Stockigt.pdf

Alistair,

I think it would be better to treat a recording as a recording, no matter in what format it is provided, and thus there should be a single list rather than making "das Publicum" have to...

Actually, I forgot to mention this earlier, but it was a known practice in early 18th century Italy (particularly in Northern Italy) for countertenors to sing solo alto music in church, though never...

You're right, I should have made explicit that it is "my problem" with those singers, although at least one other forum member, Honey B, seems to agree.

Vibrato becomes heavy when it reaches the...

Mozart, to take one example, also criticised a singer for having a constant heavy vibrato (sorry, I cannot find the reference at the monent). Leopold Mozart also criticised musicians who use a...

Of course, as Jan should recall, a countertenor is never ideal for a Bach alto. Bach never used a countertenor in his cantatas, just as he also never used a castrato. He had male altos with...

[QUOTE=SineNomine;1258]Zelenka never used countertenor (nor Handel or all Italien composers). Of course he commonly used castrato-singers ...

Jan, I think you misunderstood what I was saying about...

Having watched the Youtube clip, I have to agree with Honey B. The soprano is not fantastic. Far from it. In fact, she is a rather ordinary modern opera singer (heavy vocal technique and rather...

The concerts went quite well and received some critical acclaim. See: http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/music/aural-delight-from-start-to-finish-20120513-1ykv1.html

In their next series of concerts in Sydney, Australia on 9, 11, 16, 18 and 19 May 2012, the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra and its choir will perform the Kyrie from the Missa Sancti Josephi as part...

I agree about the Sonnentheil and DNEO recording. Sometimes its playing is infectiously lively, but too often there is a hint of sluggishness and opportunities for interesting details of phrasing...

What does the Forum think of a solo recital disc by the Czech bass, Tomas Kral, with any of Ensemble Inegal, Musica Florea, Collegium 1704, Collegium Marianum or Capella Regia?

A programme of...

What a nice level-headed response to this debate. However, one should not assume that the musicians of Ensemble Inegal, including Adam Viktora, have no other jobs than the ensemble and therefore...

A new recording on the Passacaille label directed by Marc Ponseele (but not yet appearing on the Passacaille website).

It also includes Bach cantatas BWV 46 and 102.
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Finding the Missa Dei Filii concert directed by Creed on youtube has led me to explore what other Zelenka concerts (and extracts from them) have been uploaded. What a wealth of concerts of Baroque...

The point remains (which is what I think Honey B was saying, underneath his dismay at one of his favourite musicians being side-tracked into music he has no taste for) that:

1. the music on the...

I think Honey B is shocked that Adam Viktora, now a fairly big "name" in early music, would venture on disc into modern repertoire and, furthermore, with music that is already so very heavily...

I see now our own L'Infastidito was responsible!

Whether audio-only or on video, such uploads are an excellent way for those of us far from Europe to keep abreast of Zelenka performances and the...

Someone has rather helpfully uploaded on Youtube the complete radio recording of a concert of the Missa Dei Filii, ZWV 20, given in Freiburg on 16 December 2011 under the baton of Marcus Creed:...