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Collegium 1704
Few people have been capable of uniting so many talents within themselves: whether as a gifted natural horn player, a virtuoso harpsichordist, a charismatic conductor, an adept musicologist, or a brilliant concert programmer, Vaclav Lucks doesn’t like to confine himself to one single thing. He is the spiritus rector of the Prague baroque orchestra Collegium 1704 and the choir Collegium Vocale 1704, which has now the reputation of being an exceptional ensemble in the international early music scene.
With the Collegium’s project BACH-PRAG-2005, which also resulted in the formation of Collegium Vocale 1704, a framework for a regular partnership together with the Prague Spring Festival was established. Invitations to Europe’s leading festivals followed for both ensembles. Concerts of Jan Dismas Zelenka’s Missa votiva at the French Festival de Sablé and La Chaise Dieu in 2007 were met with great enthusiasm by both the press and the public, with a co-produced recording from the festival immediately hitting France’s classical top ten on the charts in 2008. This success resulted in numerous invitations to festivals and to venues around Europe – besides performing the fundamental pieces of baroque repertoir, promoting work of Czech masters like Jan Dismas Zelenka and Josef Mysliveček.
Following international successes with opera performance of Handel’s Rinaldo (directed by Louise Moaty) in 2009, the year of 2013 was devoted to rediscovery of the Czech composer Josef Mysliveček. His opera l’Olimpiade(directed by Ursel Herrmann) was presented by Collegium 1704 in Prague, Caen, Dijon, Luxembourg, Theater an der Wien and nominated for The International Opera Awards. In 2014, Collegium 1704 and Vaclav Luks collaborated with Bejun Mehta on a DVD project of Gluck's opera Orfeo ed Euridice and a BBC Two documentary “Mozart in Prague”, starred by Ronaldo Villazon. In 2017, Collegium 1704 gave the modern-era world premiere of Antonio Vivaldi’s Arsilda, regina di Ponto, its first hearing in over 300 years, in Bratislava. Further performances took place at the Opéra de Lille, in Luxembourg, at the Opéra Royal Versailles, and in Caen.
Recent and upcoming guest performances include appearances at the Salzburg Festival, the Lucerne Festival, the Chopin Festival in Warsaw, the Festival Wratislavia Cantans, the Berliner Philharmonie, London’s Wigmore Hall, the Theater and der Wien, the Konzerthaus Wien, and the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Brussels. The ensemble will also serve as artist-in-residence at the renowned Utrecht Early Music Festival and the Leipzig Bach Festival.
Inspired by Zelenka’s personality, the Ensemble has also gained attention though its concert cycle Musikbrücke Prag-Dresden, which takes place simultaneously in Prague and Dresden every year and unites the historic and cultural similarities of the two cities.
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Jan Dismas Zelenka (1679-1745)
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Missa votiva in e-moll, ZWV 18 (1739)
cast: 23 Musiker, 17 Sänger, Dirigent
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Musica per la Settimana Santa
Musik für die Heilige Woche
Responsoria pro Hebdomanda Sancta, ZWV 55
Lamentationes Jeremiae Prophetae, ZWV 203
cast: 9 Musiker, 8 Sänger
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Johann Sebastian Bach Oboe concertos et cantatas
Xenia Löffler - Oboe
Anna Prohaska - Sopran Accent 2018
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Jan Dismas Zelenka Diapason d'or |
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Josef Mysliveček Violin Concertos - Sinfonia & Ouverture Leila Schayegh - Violine
Accent 2018 |
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Jan Dismas ZelenkaMissa Divi Xaverii ZWV 12
Accent 2016 |
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Zelenka - Tuma
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Johann Sebastian BachMass in B minorAccent July 2013 |
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Jan Dismas Zelenka
Responsoria pro hebdomada sanctaLamentatio Ieremiae ProphetaeAccent Jan 2012 |
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Jan Dismas Zelenka
Officium Defunctorum ZWV 47Requiem ZWV 46
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Anton Reichenauer
ConcertosXenie Löffler, Lenka Torgersen, Sergio Azzolini Diapason d'Or |
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Jan Dismas Zelenka Penitenti al Sepolchro del Redentore ZWV 63
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Jan Dismas Zelenka Missa votiva ZWV 18
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Jan Dismas Zelenka
Composizioni per OrchestraSUPRAPHON Nov 2005 |
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Jiří Antonín Benda
Koncerty pro obligátní cembalo, dvoje housle, violu a violoncelloARTA |
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Georg Friedrich Handel La Resurrezione HWV 47
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