![Roman Válek, Czech Ensemble Baroque - Tůma: Te Deum, Sinfonia ex C, Missa Veni Pater Pauperum (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz] Download](https://i0.wp.com/imghd.xyz/images/2022/12/18/lhiocm3qelvoc_600.jpg?resize=500%2C500&ssl=1)
Roman Válek, Czech Ensemble Baroque – Tůma: Te Deum, Sinfonia ex C, Missa Veni Pater Pauperum (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 54:02 minutes | 992 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Supraphon a.s.
Czech Ensemble Baroque’s first recording dedicated to František Ignác Antonín Tůma (Requiem, Miserere) confirmed his firm position among Europe’s major late-Baroque composers. A pupil of the renowned Viennese master J. J. Fux, his music is characterised by immaculate refined counterpoint, yet he also embraced and brought to bear elements of the incipient Galant style. Dating from three different phases of his life, the three pieces featured on the present album map Tůma’s artistic development. The grandiose Missa Veni Pater Pauperum, written in 1736 for the Schottenstift, a Benedictine abbey in Vienna, is from the time when he served Count Franz Ferdinand Kinsky, who had provided him with a thorough education. The festive 1745 Te Deum, scored for a similarly extensive ensemble, was composed for the Stift Wilhering, a Cistercian monastery in Upper Austria, which performed it on multiple occasions within the celebrations of the Feast of Corpus Christi. As regards the Sinfonia ex C, Tůma most likely conceived it towards the end of his days, when he lived in seclusion at the Premonstratensian monastery in Geras, Lower Austria. The three festive pieces, recorded for the very first time, attest to Tůma’s being a composer richly deserving of special attention.
(more…)
Andreas Scholl, Czech Ensemble Baroque, Roman Válek – Frantisek Tuma (Motets, Dixit Dominus, Sinfonia) (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 48:35 minutes | 877 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Aparté
Andreas Scholl returns to his repertoire of choice,introducing us to the splendid works of Frantisek Tůma – a little-known Bohemian composer whowas a prominent musical figure in the 18th century.
Together with the Czech Baroque Ensemble andtheir conductor Roman Válek, specialists in thisrepertoire, the counter-tenor here performs severalof his emblematic motets and cantatas.
In this atmosphere of the twilight of the Baroque,Andreas Scholl’s voice attains its fullness,embracing Tůma’s splendid invention and intensityof expression – a marvellous musical encounterthat reaches its apex in the splendid arias of theMotettum de tempore, the Motetto per ogni Tempoor in the austere but absolute beauty of the chorusJuravit Dominus.
Read more![Adam Plachetka, Czech Ensemble Baroque, Roman Valek - Molieri (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz] Download](https://i0.wp.com/imghd.xyz/images/2022/11/22/zlap82gfckcfc_600.jpg?resize=500%2C500&ssl=1)
Adam Plachetka, Czech Ensemble Baroque, Roman Valek – Molieri (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 58:42 minutes | 1,02 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © PentaTone
Bass-baritone Adam Plachetka presents Molieri, a programme of opera arias by Mozart and Salieri, together with the Czech Ensemble Baroque under the baton of Roman Válek. Thanks to fictional works such as the film Amadeus, Antonio Salieri is often scapegoated as the man who allegedly caused Mozart’s untimely death out of professional envy. Despite the fact that this is obviously not true, Salieri’s popularity has suffered from this popular myth-making, and most of his operas have sunk into oblivion. Molieri brings the two composers together, focusing on bass-8 baritone arias from their opera buffas. Famous arias from Mozart’s Da Ponte operas are heard in a completely different light when paired to excerpts from Salieri’s Falstaff, Axur, La grotto di Trofonio and La scuola de’ gelosi. It also makes clear why Salieri enjoyed such success, as well as why great composers such as Beethoven, Schubert and Liszt all wanted to study with him. Given the importance of Prague for Mozart’s operatic successes, the music fits the players of Czech Ensemble Baroque like a glove, and Plachetka possesses the optimal combination of vocal authority and agility to sing these buffo roles.
Bass-baritone Adam Plachetka frequents the world’s most prestigious opera houses, and is a MET regular, equally at home in dramatic and comic repertoire. The Czech Ensemble Baroque is one of the most important period instrument ensembles of the Czech Republic, and was founded by Roman Válek in 1998. Plachetka, Válek and the ensemble all make their Pentatone debut.
(more…)