Zelenka Festival Prague with one-day Zelenka Conference

  • This has been taken from the website of Ensemble Inégal, with permission:



    PROGRAM OF ZELENKA FESTIVAL PRAGUE


    J. D. ZELENKA – FROM THE SECULAR VOCAL COLLECTION
    Musica Aeterna
    Peter Zajíček - artistic director


    19/10/2016 AT 19:30 – RYTÍŘSKÝ SÁL (KNIGHT HALL), VELKOPŘEVORSKÝ PALÁC, PRAGUE


    The programme drawn up of Zelenka's unknown treasure of his own secular vocal collection includes pieces from J. A. Hasse, N. Porpora, A. Lotti a G. Giacomelli.

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    J.D. ZELENKA - ALCUNE ARIE


    The Czech premiere of Zelenka's collection of Italien arias

    Musica Florea
    Marek Štryncl - artistic director


    20/10/2016 AT 19:30 – RYTÍŘSKÝ SÁL (KNIGHT HALL), VELKOPŘEVORSKÝ PALÁC, PRAGUE.


    In this unique composition you encounter Zelenka as a supreme composer who could exceptionally handle opera style.

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    ZELENKA CONFERENCE PRAGUE


    Janice B. Stockigt, Andrew Frampton (Australia), Wolfgang Horn, Claudia Lubkoll, Michael Maul, Clemens Harasim, Ansem Hartinger (Germany), Michaela Freemanová (Czech Republic)


    21/10/2016 FROM 10:00- 17:00 – LIBRARY OF THE DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC HISTORY OF THE ETHNOLOGICAL INSTITUTE OF THE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE CZECH REPUBLIC, PUŠKINOVO NÁMĚSTÍ 9, PRAGUE 6


    Zelenka festival Prague offers a one-day conference with well-known contemporary Zelenka researchers and will present unpublished findings of Zelenka's work and his life. The aim of the Zelenka Conference is to create a platform that can present the results of the contemporary foreign research on Zelenka in hopes to bring the inspiration to restart the reasearch of Zelenka's work which has been stagnated in the Czech Republic for many years.

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    J.D. ZELENKA – MISERERE & MISSA DEI FILII

    Kammerchor Stuttgart
    Ensemble Inégal


    Frieder Bernius - conductor


    22/10/2016 at 19:30- Kostel U Salvátora, Salvátorská street, Prague 1
    23/10/2016 AT 17:00 – ANNENKIRCHE, DRESDEN


    The Kammerchor Stuttgart and Ensemble Inégal common project performed by German conductor Frieder Bernius, legendary rediscoverer of Zelenka's works. The programme consists of two Zelenka's finest works, Missa Dei Filii ZWV 20 and Miserere C-minor ZWV 57.


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    The festival is organized by Ensemble Inégal with the financial support of the City of Prague, Ministry of Culture and the Czech-German Funf for the Future.


    YOU CAN ALSO BUY TICKETS ONLINE THROUGH THE FOLLOWING LINKS:

    http://www.webticket.cz [1]


    http://www.pragueticketoffice.com [2]

  • The programme can also be found at the Zelenkafestival Homepage, but only on the Czech version; at the english version there is still the programme for 2015:
    http://www.zelenkafestival.cz/program-2016/


    Will anyone attend the festival? The programme is very interesting, especially the performance of the "Missa Dei filii"! I plan to come from Vienna to Prague and it would be nice to meet other Zelenka enthusiasts!

  • The programme is very interesting, especially the performance of the "Missa Dei filii"!


    Not just very interesting, more like mind-blowingly brilliant. Over a quarter of a century after his definitive recording, Bernius gets to flex the muscles of a band which is undoubtedly one of the most naturally born Zelenka-performing groups since, well, the 1740s! Any word on which soloists are going to join this "dream team"? And any news on whether either performances will be recorded/filmed?

  • I have just returned from Prague for my first visit and I was blown away. It was like being in a time capsule launching you into an earlier time. I did originally have doubts about going again this October (I start my studies again in September...), but now I just can't refuse. So, I will be attending! :D

  • The festival website has been updated with the soloist line-ups for the concerts. In particular the Bernius/Inégal concert will be sung by a team of upcoming German soloists:


    Maria Bernius
    Adam Schilling
    Tobias Mäthger
    Emanuel Fluck (Prague, 22.10.2016)
    Johannes Hill (Dresden, 23.10.2016)

    I also discovered I can reach Prague in 2 and half hours by road. So my ticket's booked!!

  • The Zelenka Conference page has also been updated.
    The conference is Friday 21/10/16, 10:00 - 17:00 at Library of the Department of Music History of the Ethnological Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Puškinovo náměstí 9, Prague 6.


    Here are the talk titles:
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    Janice B. Stockigt (Melbourne)
    Zelenka and the Sectarian Politics of Saxony: 1733

    Claudia Lubkoll (Dresden)
    Watermarks in Jan Dismas Zelenka’s vesper psalms

    Michael Maul (Leipzig)
    Der Fall Christian Siegmund Nitzschner – Überlegungen zu einem neuen Zelenka-Dokument
    [The case of Christian Siegmund Nitzschner - Towards a new Zelenka document]

    Wolfgang Horn (Regensburg)
    Elements, forms and genres in the masses of Jan Dismas Zelenka

    Clemens Harasim (Leipzig)
    Zelenkas Magnificat-Vertonungen ZWV 107 und ZWV 108 im Kontext zeitgenössischer Marienkompositionen
    [Zelenka's Magnificat settings ZWV 107 & 108 in the context of contemporary Marian compositions]



  • Michael Maul (Leipzig)
    Der Fall Christian Siegmund Nitzschner – Überlegungen zu einem neuen Zelenka-Dokument
    [The case of Christian Siegmund Nitzschner - Towards a new Zelenka document]


    Interestingly, a different title is listed on the Czech language website page for Michael Maul's talk:


    “Nitzschner, Graf Brühl, Zelenka und das Pirnaer Kantorat” [Nitzschner, Graf Brühl, Zelenka and the Cantor from Pirna]


    I believe that Kantorat might mean Cantor, but I'm not sure. Also, Graf Bruhl is almost certainly referring to Count Heinrich von Brühl, court statesman and advisor to August III. Pirna is a town on the Elbe just south-east of Dresden.

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