After the international success with the recording of Handel’s Messiah, Collegium 1704 returns to the works of its “composer laureate” Jan Dismas Zelenka. Independently composed parts of the mass ordinary from 1724-1725, connected not only by unified musical expression and instrumentation but also by their dramatic nature and emotions of grief and passion, have been combined by Václav Luks, artistic director and conductor of Collegium 1704, into an imaginary mass entitled Missa 1724.
Accent, 2020
Václav Luks | conductor
Lucía Caihuela | soprano (solo 4, 20)
Jeanne Mendoche | soprano (solo 6, 8)
Aldona Bartnik | soprano (solo 1)
Kamila Mazalová | alto (solo 1, 4)
Aneta Petrasová | alto (solo 8, 20)
Václav Čížek | tenor (solo 1, 5)
Benjamin Glaubitz | tenor (solo 20)
Tomáš Šelc | bass (solo 1, 9, 20)
Collegium 1704
concert master | Ivan Iliev
violin I | Markéta Knittlová, Martina Kuncl Štillerová, Vadym Makarenko, Alfia Bakieva
violin II | Luca Giardini, Giacomo Tesini, Katarzyna Szewczyk, Kamila Guz
viola | Michal Dušek, František Kuncl, Friedemann Ramsenthaler
violoncello | Libor Mašek, Hana Fleková
double basss | Attila Szilágyi
oboe | Katharina Andres, Petra Ambrosi
bassoon | Kathrin Lazar
trombone | Jakub Zívalík, Pavel Novotný, Ondřej Sokol
organ | Jens Wollenschläger
theorba | Ophira Zakai
Collegium Vocale 1704
soprano | Lucía Caihuela, Jeanne Mendoche, Aldona Bartnik, Kamila Zbořilová, Petra Havránková, Aleksandra Turalska
alto | Kamila Mazalová, Aneta Petrasová, Daniela Čermáková, Jan Mikušek
tenor | Václav Čížek, Benjamin Glaubitz, Čeněk Svoboda, Tomáš Lajtkep
bass | Tomáš Šelc , Michał Dembiński, Martin Vacula, Dominik Kujawa
Jan Dismas Zelenka | Missa 1724
Kyrie ZWV 26
Gloria ZWV 30
Credo ZWV 32
Sanctus ZWV 26
Benedictus ZWV deest
Agnus dei ZWV 26
Jan Dismas Zelenka | Salve Regina ZWV 137
We are grateful to the Dagmar and Václav Havel Foundation VIZE 97 and to all private donors for their kind support of the world-premiere recording of Zelenka’s Missa 1724!
Michael Addison, Miloslav Ambruš, Alfons Backes-Haase & Ricarda Haase, Katerina Blazek, Frédéric Boulanger, Barbora Bukovinská, René Burggraf & Renzo Snippe, Milena Česeneková, Bernhard Deflorian, Pavel Drtina, Linda & Jiří Fenclovi, Daniela Fernandes de Bulnes-Slivanská, Štěpán Filipec, Stian Fjellskaal, William G. Foulks, Pavol Goča, Filip Grygar, Jochen Hagel, Winfried Heyne-Böhme, Dan Holubkov, Milan Horyna, Jiří Hrstka, Tomáš Chadim, Piotr Jaworski, Eva & Tomáš Jelínkovi, Alexandr Kadavý, Robin N. Klupp Taylor, Eva Kohutová, František Kopca, Helmut Krause, Barbora & Michal Krejčí, Kateřina Kroužecká, Jakub Kroužecký, Hana Laimarinová, Jindřich Lorenc, Martin Lošek, David Macháček, Iľja Michalič, Fumiyo Miura, Ondřej Nekvasil, Jarmila Novenková, Marek Palowski, Stanislav Přibyl, Jitka Sedlářová, Lukáš Seibert, Jiří Schneider, Elisabeth Stingelin, Martin Strauch, Věra Štěpánková, Jaroslav Thierry Kříž, Vít Tokarský, Eckart Uffrecht, Undine & Albrecht, Miloslav Valenta, Jan Vančura, Jiří Vlček, Michal Voříšek, Ulrich Windaus, Anna M. & Ulrich Wobus
Despite the confident appellation ‘Missa 1724’ this is, in effect, a kind of parody mass with its movements sourced from diverse works. Václav Luks reinforces the point in his booklet notes, acknowledging that the movements are not related to each other but that it’s an opportunity to bring this part of Zelenka’s music to public recognition.
Jonathan Woolf, musicweb-international.com
