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Music for Prague

Lucie Skeaping profile music-making in Prague: home to composers like Brixi, Regnart, Myslivecek and Brentner, as well as famous musical visitors like Machaut, Mozart and Gluck.

Lucie Skeaping presents a profile of music in Prague - a political, cultural and economic focus of central Europe for more than 1100 years, and home to composers such as Brixi, Regnart, Myslivecek and Brentner; as well as many famous musical visitors like Machaut, Mozart and Gluck.

First broadcast in April 2012.

58 minutes

Music Played

  • Jacob Regnart

    Stetit Jesus

    Choir: Cinquecento Renaissance Vokal.
    • Hyperion.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Overture to 'Don Giovanni'

    Ensemble: English Baroque Soloists. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
    • Archiv.
  • Franz Brixi

    1st movement from Concerto for organ in G major

    Performer: Vera Hermanova. Choir: Capella Regia Musicalis. Conductor: Robert Hugo.
    • Supraphon.
  • Christoph Willibald Gluck

    Sinfonia to 'Ezio'

    Orchestra: Il Complesso Barocco. Conductor: Alan Curtis.
    • Virgin Classics.
  • Guillaume de Machaut

    Dame, de qui toute ma joie vient

    Choir: Gothic Voices.
    • Hyperion.
  • J.J.I. Brentner

    Aria V in G, "Cor meum tibi dedo"

    Singer: Hana Blazikova. Ensemble: Collegium Marianum.
    • Supraphon.
  • Josef Myslivecek

    Divertimento in F major

    Orchestra: Suk Chamber Orchestra Prague. Conductor: Josef Vlach.
    • Dabringhaus und Grimm.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Overture: Don Giovanni

    Performers: English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)

    • ARCHIV.
    • 445 870-2.
  • Guillaume de Machaut

    Dame, de qui toute ma joie vient

    Performers: Gothic Voices, Christopher Page (director)

    • HYPERION.
    • CDA 66087.
  • Josef Myslivecek

    Divertimento in F

    Performers: Suk Chamber Orchestra, Prague, Josef Vlach (conductor)

    • DABRINGHAUS UND GRIMM.
    • MDG 601 0316-2.
  • Jacob Regnart

    Stetit Jesus

    Performers: Cinquecento Renaissance Vokal

    • HYPERION.
    • CDA 67640.
  • Jan Joseph Brentner

    Aria V in G, "Cor meum tibi dedo"

    Performers: Hana Blazikova (soprano), Collegium Marianum

    • SUPRAPHON.
    • SU-3970-2.
  • Franz Brixi

    Concerto for organ in G (1st movement)

    Performers: Vera Hermanova (organ), Capella regia musicalis, Robert Hugo (conductor)

    • SUPRAPHON.
    • SU 3741-2 031.
  • Christoph Willibald Gluck

    脡zio [Sinfonia]

    Performers: Il Complesso Barocco, Alan Curtis (director)

    • VIRGIN CLASSICS.
    • 240 4246.

Broadcasts

  • Sun 29 Apr 2012 13:00
  • Sun 6 Oct 2013 14:00

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