Apr 30, 2024
Jan Dismas Zelenka was a Bohemian Catholic baroque composer who
has at instances been known as “The Catholic Bach” as a result of his greatest
compositions are on par with these of J.S. Bach, who certainly knew
and esteemed Zelenka. This episode covers Zelenka’s profession on the
Catholic court docket chapel in Dresden with its grand liturgies impressed
by Habsburg piety and Jesuit aspirations to evangelize the
Protestants of Saxony.
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Hyperlinks
Janice Stockigt, Jan Dismas Zelenka (1679-1745): A Bohemian
Musician on the Court docket of Dresden https://archive.org/particulars/jandismaszelenka00stoc/
Music heard on this episode:
The primary actions of the trio sonatas in F main and C minor,
ZWV 181/5 and 181/6, discovered on the album Zelenka: Trio Sonatas Nos.
1-6, carried out by Ensemble Zefiro
https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/merchandise/8121143–zelenka-trio-sonatas-nos-1-6
Nisi Dominus, ZWV 92, carried out by Ensemble Inegal https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-3cOwmrorI
Miserere in C minor, ZWV 57, carried out by Il Fondamento/Paul
Dombrecht https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAi_2B3QvAA
Missa votiva, ZWV 18, carried out by Collegium 1704/Václav Luks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCL2CWQaH4A
Litaniae Lauretanae “salus infirmorum”, ZWV 152, carried out by
Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks/Neue Hofkapelle München/Peter
Dijkstra https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPRhMBJm6xs