April 30, 2024
Jan Dismas Zelenka was a Bohemian Catholic Baroque composer sometimes called the “Catholic Bach” because his greatest works rival those of JS Bach, who knew and respected Zelenka. This episode covers Zelenka’s career in the Catholic court chapel in Dresden, where grand liturgies were inspired by Habsburg piety and Jesuit zeal to evangelize Saxony’s Protestants.
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Link
Jannis Stockigt and Jan Dismas Zelenka (1679-1745): Bohemian musicians at the Dresden court https://archive.org/details/jandismaszelenka00stoc/
Music in this episode:
First movement of the Trio Sonata (in F major and C minor, ZWV 181/5 and 181/6) by Ensemble Zeffiro from the album “Zelenka: Trio Sonatas Nos. 1-6”
https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/8121143–zelenka-trio-sonatas-nos-1-6
Performed by Nishi Dominus, ZWV 92 and Ensemble Inegal https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-3cOwmrorI
Miserere in C minor ZWV 57 Il Fondamento/Performed by Paul Dombrecht https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAi_2B3QvAA
Missa votiva, ZWV 18, Collegium 1704/Performed by Vaclav Lux
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCL2CWQaH4A
Litaniae Lauretanae “salus infirmorum”, ZWV 152, performed by the Bavarian State Radio Chorus/Neue Hofkapelle Munich/Peter Dijkstra https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPRhMBJm6xs
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