Performers: Duodena Cantitans [Rüzena Hejná (solo Nr. 9), Sárka Klementová, Pavla Svestková (solo Nr. 9), Leona Pelesková, Marketa Curkrová (soprano); Dagmar Stefancová, Iva Danková, Hana Svatlosová (alto); Vladimir Scigel, Vlatislav Matousek (solo Nr. 17), Zdenek Kazda (solo Nr. 8), Matej Docekal (tenor); Alexandr Krestlovský, Lubos Vanícek, Libor Zajícek, Ivan Klimes (bass)], Capella Rudolphina [Premysl Vacek (theorbo; solo Nr. 11); Petr Wagner (bass viola da gamba); Marek Spelina, Jan Kvapil, Alice Nelis (recorder); Pavel Polásek (soprano shawm); Ladislav Svestka (alto cornet); Josef Simek (alto trombone); Pavel Neckár (tenor trombone); Bohuslav Rattay (tenor trombone); Alexandr Krestlovský (percussion instruments); Roman Dykast (fiddle Ochlebky); Vlatislav Matousek (bagpipe Moldánky)].
Playing time: 66:36
Recording date: January 1997
This recording attempts to highlight the cultural flowering in the Hapsburg domains in the period between the accession of Ferdinand I to the Hapsburg and Bohemian throne in 1526 to the repression of the Bohemian Estates following the Battle of White Mountain in 1621. Track 18 has texts in Latin, Czech, German, and Italian.
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Christopher Schifani