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Georg Friedrich Händel – For unto us a Child is born (Chorus)
Georg Friedrich Händel – He was despised (Aria)
Georg Friedrich Händel – Why do the nations (Aria)
After the successful and internationally acclaimed recordings of Bach’s Mass in B minor, Zelenka’s Missa Divi Xaverii and others, Collegium 1704 releases a CD with Handel’s oratorio Messiah, undoubtedly one of the most famous opuses in the history of music. This first complete Czech recording was made as part of the ensemble’s 2017/18 season at the Rudolfinum.
Václav Luks | conductor
Giulia Semenzato | soprano
Benno Schachtner | alto
Krystian Adam | tenor
Krešimir Stražanac | bass
Collegium 1704
concert master | Helena Zemanová
violin I | Iveta Schwarz, Markéta Knittlová, Jan Hádek, Luca Giardini
violin II |Ivan Iliev, Simona Tydlitátová, Martina Kuncl Štillerová, Veronika Manová, Daniel Deuter
viola | Ildiko Ludwig, Tim Willis, František Kuncl, Ivo Anýž
violoncello | Libor Mašek, Hana Fleková, Helena Matyášová
double basss | Ondřej Štajnochr, Attila Szilágyi
organ | Pablo Kornfeld
cembalo | Joan Boronat Sanz
theorba | Jan Krejča
oboe | Katharina Andres, Petra Ambrosi
bassoon | Györgyi Farkas, Stefan Pantzier
trubka | Hans-Martin Rux, Almut Rux, Aline Théry
tympány | Daniel Schäbe
Collegium Vocale 1704
soprano | Jenny Högström, Helena Hozová, Kamila Zbořilová, Marta Paklar,
Petra Havránková
alto | Kamila Mazalová, Aneta Petrasová, Marta Fadljevičová, Daniela Čermáková,
Jan Mikušek
tenor | Václav Čížek, Čeněk Svoboda, Krzysztof Mroziński, Pavel Valenta, Hasan El-Dunia
bass | Tomáš Šelc, Michał Dembiński, Georg Finger, Martin Vacula, Dominik Kujawa
We would like to thank the CD patrons for their particularly generous support:
Hugo Mensdorff-Pouilly
František Vyskočil
Marie Veronika & Libor Winkler
Thank you very much to everyone who supported the creation of the recording! Thank you:
David Adameček, Hildegard & Willi Amort, Ing. Václav Bartoš, Ota Batelka, Beng Choo Lim, Giuseppina Bonardi, René Burggraaf & Renzo Snippe-Burggraaf, Milena Česeneková, Bernhard Deflorian, Robert Doyle, Jiří Fencl, Anna J. Ficner, Václav Filip, Štěpán Filipec, Jakub Hadraba, Jochem Hagel, Winfried Heyne-Böhme, Guillaume L’Hôpital, Jiří Hrstka, Ondřej Jareš, Piotr Jaworski, Alexander Kadavý, Jiří Kameníček, Dr. Arch. Christian Kapeller, Marie & Aleš Kocverovi, Dorit & Johannes Koderisch, Eva Kohutová, František Kopca, Helmut Krause, Barbora & Michal Krejčí, Kateřina Kroužecká, Monika Kubertová, Jan Kučera, Daniel Kunz, Martin Lošek, Zorka Martínková, Fumiyo Miura, Gudrun Nützenadel, Joanna Poloková, Christien Poppes, Jana Ryšlinková, David Stejskal, Eva & Petr Svobodovi, Tomáš Šelc, David Šilar, Katka & Martin Šmolíkovi, Věra Štěpánková, Miklos Tallian, Mariusz Trojanowski, Università Ca’ Foscari, Václav Vrána, Martina Výrková, Anna M. & Ulrich Wobus, Daniel Zaleski, Přemek Žák
Georg Friedrich Händel
Messiah HWV 56
I would like to say at the outset that this album is, in my opinion, one of the best that Collegium 1704 has recorded so far, perhaps even becoming his personal Mount Everest, and not only because it is a live recording. The more I listened to Mesiáš, the more I became convinced that Václav Luks brings something extremely special to the historically informed interpretation, which has become a common part of musical performance since the pioneering days of Christopher Hogwood.
Dina Šnejdarová, Harmony
Václav Luks has a lot of experience with performing large baroque church compositions in a more intimate setting. His staging of the Messiah is part of his interpretation approach, in which, thanks to his extraordinary musicianship, he succeeds in connecting the application of contemporary practice with the experiences of today’s listeners.
Helena Havlíková, Czech Radio Vltava
