Thank goodness Zelenka’s marvellous compositions were rediscovered and every single one has now been recorded in his home country. In my view, Zelenka is on the top shelf along with all the well known European composers.
What an inspired and inspiring group of musicians! Their joy in the music is so evident, and it is a joy to watch the enthusiastic conducting of Vaclav Luks, who obviously loves the music.
Look how passionate this conductor is for the music, and how it radiates like a glowing aura into the performers. Just wonderful. And the music....just astounding.
This ensemble is a revelation. Sublime. The conductor is highly involved with vivid swallowly arm-movements. I like it! Choir, musicians, conductor, perfectly emerging, fusing. All expressing JOY.
Václav Luks has the joy and the intense feeling for his music that inspires his performances and those who perform. He is the top notch conductor of this genre of music
God bless the wonderful Collegium 1704,the marvelous solists,the eminent work by conductor Luks and Zelenka's Genius (Bach's geniality is naturally unquestionable)
Vaclav Luks the conductor is the most energetic and wonderful conductor I have even seen on TH-cam or in live. He's got such a pure soul, as reflected by his works.
To me Vaclav Luks is the most inspiring conductor as compared to others. He is part of the joy and the magic of this sublime music. I wish this recording could be part of a DVD. Go ahead Vaclav, we love you and don't bother with the negative comments that are ridiculous.
JEAN- SÉBASTIEN BACH ( EISEMACH 1685-1750 LEIPZIG ) JAN DISMAS ZELENKA ( LOUNOVICE 1679-1745 DRESDE ). BACH & ZELENKA " TE DEUM" { ZWV 146 } COLLEGIUM 1704 CONDUCTOR VACLAV LUKS. Une merveille voix grandiose musique Eternel bravo magnifique. Apprécier par Bach et TELEMANN ZELENKA et considéré comme le plus important compositeur de la musique baroque tchèque. Merci pour ce concert inoubliable.
I love Zelenka. At his best, his counterpoint rivals Bach's -- who was evidently an admirer as well. Zelenka deserves far more global exposure than his music has hitherto received. His music is passionate and highly chromatic and polyphonic, expressive in a different way than Bach's. It would have been great fun to be at a party when these two were playing their latest.
Agreed. Zelenka is the first composer I've heard who has a near uncanny resemblance to JS Bach. Bach weavings are unique when compared to other Baroque heavyweights & Zelenka fooled me the first time I heard him. I am so thrilled to now catch up on more works by this lesser known but equally grand and majestic composer. How come I never heard of him until recently? Shame on my earlier musicology training. Czech people can be justifiably proud of Zelenka, their national treasure and gift to world culture, an international treasure like all great composers.
Oh joy! After listening to Collegium 1704 & Co. perform Messiah for the 4th time, I've found more to listen to and love from this extraordinary orchestra and chorus. Hope these master performers lead by conductor Luks, will come to the US to perform. What a gift to the world of fine music this is.
What a glorious piece of music 🎵! And so joyfully played sung and conducted. I would love to sing it or play timpani in it. What a shame it's never performed.
Thanks for including illuminating notes with this splendid upload. Collegium 1704 Vocale ensemble and soloists blend beautifully as always; also each instrumentalist shines with joyful skill in response to Vaclav Luk's exuberant leadership. A truly great performance, as also its companion Bach event in this MEZZO broadcast.
i,too,just came across Zelenka sometime ago,and it became quite clear he was definitely anointed for the tasks God assigned to him! truly these sounds stir our hearts!
Zelenka is supposedly the only composer that J.S.Bach is on record as admiring. We know from anecdotal evidence that he also admired Handel, but with Zelenka we have it in writing.
I: Te Deum laudamus (Choir) - 0:35 II: Tu rex gloriae (Soprano I and II) - 6:10 III: Tu ad liberandum (Alto) - 8:40 IV: Tu ad dexteram Dei sedes (Tenor and Bass) - 14:32 V: Judex crederis (Choir) - 16:00 VI: Aeterna fac (Choir) - 18:00 VII: Intonatio: Salvum fac - 19:37 VIII: Et rege eos (Choir) - 20:05 IX: Per singulos dies (Soprano I, II and Alto) - 21:48 X: In te, Domine (Choir) - 26:40
Also here is the full MANUSCRIPT SCORE of this masterpiece of Zelenka: th-cam.com/video/nJu7EQDv20Q/w-d-xo.html and a playlist I have been an continue to update of this underrated composer's works: th-cam.com/play/PLafpqg3vsKmeqZ960zC8TcjT1x4-I-zM7.html
Truly sublime-I have only recently discovered Zelenka (as well as Biber, Caldara and Campra) after a lifelime passion for music.My eternal gratitude to all.These wonderful Baroque composers deserve more exposure.
Again, a perfectly wonderful performance! I don't even consider Bach & Zelenka as "Baroque" composers because of their totally unique geniuses. Their music goes far beyond what anyone else at that time was writing. It is definitely a reflection of each man's inner self/soul that is expressed the only way they knew how to do it: composing great masterpieces. Thanks very much for these videos!!!
Special appreciation for alto Marketa Cukrova, who solidly grounds each line with satisfying richness of tone and sincere understanding in the aria "Tu ad liberandum"; her colleague Kamala Mazalova (nee Sevcikova in the Ostrava choir Adash) has a different timbre but equally communicative. Director Luks must treat his colleagues well, since they all seem delighted to join him in these effervescent performances of Zelenka, Bach, Handel, Tuma and other geniuses. Will Collegium 1704 tour the USA in 2016?
Zelenka needs to be recognized as a major composer of the Baroque era, at least with regard to "sacred" music ... though his oboe sonatas are also superb. Such "Schwung" and momentum in the allegros. One can hardly criticize Luks for the obvious joy he has in conducting this! (After all, anyway, most of the conductor's work is done in rehearsal.)
My favourite part of this is the conductor adjusting the score on the stand -- looking, shall we dare say, nervous? But as soon as the music begins, it all disappears. :)
Extraordinária performance... e que peça musical que é um hino a e de Deus...Ouçam-na. Prometo que Não vão perder os tais 30' que demora. É mesmo de uma beleza estonteante.
Zelenka(1679-1745) 'was born near Prague but worked for most of his life in Dresden, where he was double bass player in the court orchestra.....wrote 3 oratorios and at least 20 Masses.." The Billboard Encyclopedia of Classical Music
Thanks. These things help us try to understand the social context in which these extraordinary men composed their eternally beautiful music; a zenith of our glorious culture.
I'm glad I watched this video from the comfort of my home, because if I was at the concert I might have screwed stuffy tradition and joyously clapped out loud like a blithering idiot soon after the first movement ended at 5:44- ... C'mon...it was, like...Wow!😵💫😮🫠 glorious!🎉... like...ya know!?!?
Absolument fabuleux. Quel dommage que ce compositeur baroque Tchèque soit trop peu connus. Il est vrai qu'il vivait à l'époque de J.S. Bach quj, lui, est passé à la postérité. Espérons que cette injustice sera réparée.
Per quel che si sa di lui, l'autore di questa musica non ha prescisso. Anzi, ha esaltato la sostanza testo, senza la quale la musica stessa non sarebbe esistita.
Lovely, all of it. And Hana Blazikova is first class. (actually its not at all surprising Bach liked this guy's music - they're both pretty crazy, ie. baroque! That SSA trio at 'Per singulos dies benedicimus te' sounds like the stile galant bits of the B minor Mass & Magnificat 'Suscepit Israel', and then suddenly CPE Bach for a few bars, and then back just as suddenly)
Thank you. I didn't know much about the Russian method and did not know that the Czechs did the same thing. So I'm guessing that Maria Sharapova's father's name is Mr. Sharapa. Of course I see that you said the Czech language was similar in this way to Russian and other Slavic languages.... not identical.
Zelenka could compose a "Ted Deum" because Dresde whrere he lived and worked was a catholic place surrounded by Lutherian teeritories. It is quite precious to have these masterworks of Catholic german baroque music.
what a joyous, energetic and uplifting experience.....pity about breaking continuity of the composition with the "clob, clob, clob" to get soloists to the front....why not just stand at the back, not so nice for the conductor who likes them close by but for the sake of the music it would have been the cherry on top!
Te Deum in D, ZWV 146 (1731) (for SAATB soloists, 2 choruses, orch: 4 tpt, timp, 2 fl, 2 ob, 2 bn, 2 vn, va, bc) 0:35- Te Deum laudamus (Choir) 6:00- Tu rex gloriae (Soprano I and II) 8:40- Tu ad liberandum (Alto) 14:20- Tu ad dexteram Dei sedes (Tenor and Bass) 16:00- Judex crederis (Choir) 18:00- Aeterna fac (Choir) 19:37- Intonatio : Salvum fac 20:05- Et rege eos (Choir) 21:30- Per singulos dies (Soprano I, II and Alto) 26:40- In te, Domine (Choir)
I'm a bit puzzled how someone who has never heard of Zelenka can be such an expert on baroque singing ! I find the singing all the better for the control of excessive vibrato too often heard in so-called "baroque" performances.
![Bach & Zelenka: J.S. Bach: "Tönet, ihr Pauken!" [BWV 214] - Collegium 1704/ Luks (20.08.11) (2of2)](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/QuQyoJw5osU/mqdefault.jpg)
![Bach & Zelenka: J.S. Bach: "Tönet, ihr Pauken!" [BWV 214] - Collegium 1704/ Luks (20.08.11) (2of2)](/img/tr.png)
![Jan Dismas Zelenka: Missa Dei Fili [ZWV 20] - Freiburger Barockorchester & Collegium Vocale Ghent](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/yiCTzSF7CR4/mqdefault.jpg)
Thank goodness Zelenka’s marvellous compositions were rediscovered and every single one has now been recorded in his home country. In my view, Zelenka is on the top shelf along with all the well known European composers.
After hearing this beautyfull performance I had a standing ovation all by myself. I think Zelenka is the most underrated composer ever.
This is an absolute masterpiece and Collegium 1704 is magical in delivering the spirit of Zelenka.
Vaclav Luks has got to be the happiest conductor I’ve yet seen.
What an inspired and inspiring group of musicians! Their joy in the music is so evident, and it is a joy to watch the enthusiastic conducting of Vaclav Luks, who obviously loves the music.
Look how passionate this conductor is for the music, and how it radiates like a glowing aura into the performers. Just wonderful.
And the music....just astounding.
This unbelievably marvelous composer spent many years in relative obscurity. Thank the people who have rediscovered this angel of the baroque.
I have fallen in love with the conducting and musicianship, enthusiasm, knowledge and smiling face of Vaclav Luks. Thank you for this gorgeous upload.
This ensemble is a revelation. Sublime. The conductor is highly involved with vivid swallowly arm-movements. I like it! Choir, musicians, conductor, perfectly emerging, fusing. All expressing JOY.
Wonderful vocals.
An inspired orchestra.
Václav Luks has the joy and the intense feeling for his music that inspires his performances and those who perform. He is the top notch conductor of this genre of music
Prachtig Te Deum van Zelenka, inspirerende dirigent Vaklav, fantastische solisten , koor en orkest 👏♥️
God bless the wonderful Collegium 1704,the marvelous solists,the eminent work by conductor Luks and Zelenka's Genius (Bach's geniality is naturally unquestionable)
Vaclav Luks the conductor is the most energetic and wonderful conductor I have even seen on TH-cam or in live. He's got such a pure soul, as reflected by his works.
To me Vaclav Luks is the most inspiring conductor as compared to others. He is part of the joy and the magic of this sublime music. I wish this recording could be part of a DVD. Go ahead Vaclav, we love you and don't bother with the negative comments that are ridiculous.
J'adore ce compositeur et cet ensemble et le fait que les solistes émergent et réintègrent le chœur, c'est fabuleux.
Another thrilling performance by this wonderfully talented ensemble and their wonderful conductor.
Vaclav Luks is superb! I'm a somewhat experienced choir singer...and I dream of how delightful it would be singing under his baton...
Zelenka has written sooo beautiful music.
Cet ensemble est vraiment de grande qualité et Zelenka nous propose une musique très attachante !
JEAN- SÉBASTIEN BACH ( EISEMACH 1685-1750 LEIPZIG ) JAN DISMAS ZELENKA ( LOUNOVICE 1679-1745 DRESDE ). BACH & ZELENKA " TE DEUM" { ZWV 146 } COLLEGIUM 1704 CONDUCTOR VACLAV LUKS. Une merveille voix grandiose musique Eternel bravo magnifique. Apprécier par Bach et TELEMANN ZELENKA et considéré comme le plus important compositeur de la musique baroque tchèque. Merci pour ce concert inoubliable.
I love Zelenka. At his best, his counterpoint rivals Bach's -- who was evidently an admirer as well. Zelenka deserves far more global exposure than his music has hitherto received. His music is passionate and highly chromatic and polyphonic, expressive in a different way than Bach's.
It would have been great fun to be at a party when these two were playing their latest.
Agreed. Zelenka is the first composer I've heard who has a near uncanny resemblance to JS Bach. Bach weavings are unique when compared to other Baroque heavyweights & Zelenka fooled me the first time I heard him. I am so thrilled to now catch up on more works by this lesser known but equally grand and majestic composer. How come I never heard of him until recently? Shame on my earlier musicology training. Czech people can be justifiably proud of Zelenka, their national treasure and gift to world culture, an international treasure like all great composers.
Oh joy! After listening to Collegium 1704 & Co. perform Messiah for the 4th time, I've found more to listen to and love from this extraordinary orchestra and chorus. Hope these master performers lead by conductor Luks, will come to the US to perform. What a gift to the world of fine music this is.
me too
This is great teamwork. Hail to all performing people
Much respect to the conductor. Full of energy and giving such positive and lively cues to the ensemble. Wish I could have been there.
Danke für diese Aufnahme. Was für eine Musikalität und was für ein Engament der Künstler.
❤amo quest' musica i .il coro imusicisti il Direttore sono meravigliosi è una musica che commuove e raggiunge l anima ! Grazie❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤😊
What a glorious piece of music 🎵! And so joyfully played sung and conducted. I would love to sing it or play timpani in it. What a shame it's never performed.
Lamento mucho no haber oido de este gran autor hasta ahora. Pero agradecido con las personas que generosamente compartieron este video.
Thanks for including illuminating notes with this splendid upload. Collegium 1704 Vocale ensemble and soloists blend beautifully as always; also each instrumentalist shines with joyful skill in response to Vaclav Luk's exuberant leadership. A truly great performance, as also its companion Bach event in this MEZZO broadcast.
i,too,just came across Zelenka sometime ago,and it became quite clear he was definitely anointed for the tasks God assigned to him! truly these sounds stir our hearts!
Zelenka is supposedly the only composer that J.S.Bach is on record as admiring. We know from anecdotal evidence that he also admired Handel, but with Zelenka we have it in writing.
What a first class performance! I totally enjoyed it. Thank you.
One of the world's greatest masterpieces.
I: Te Deum laudamus (Choir) - 0:35
II: Tu rex gloriae (Soprano I and II) - 6:10
III: Tu ad liberandum (Alto) - 8:40
IV: Tu ad dexteram Dei sedes (Tenor and Bass) - 14:32
V: Judex crederis (Choir) - 16:00
VI: Aeterna fac (Choir) - 18:00
VII: Intonatio: Salvum fac - 19:37
VIII: Et rege eos (Choir) - 20:05
IX: Per singulos dies (Soprano I, II and Alto) - 21:48
X: In te, Domine (Choir) - 26:40
Also here is the full MANUSCRIPT SCORE of this masterpiece of Zelenka: th-cam.com/video/nJu7EQDv20Q/w-d-xo.html
and a playlist I have been an continue to update of this underrated composer's works: th-cam.com/play/PLafpqg3vsKmeqZ960zC8TcjT1x4-I-zM7.html
Truly sublime-I have only recently discovered Zelenka (as well as Biber, Caldara and Campra) after a lifelime passion for music.My eternal gratitude to all.These wonderful Baroque composers deserve more exposure.
Tu ad liberandum is sublime. Markéta Crucová has truly exceptional voice. She blends beautifuly with the flute ornaments and trinos.
Esta música es gloriosa, magnífica,estupenda, toda católica.
¡Viva Xto Rey!
Wonderful! Mr Luks Handel is also wonderful.
Again, a perfectly wonderful performance! I don't even consider Bach & Zelenka as "Baroque" composers because of their totally unique geniuses. Their music goes far beyond what anyone else at that time was writing. It is definitely a reflection of each man's inner self/soul that is expressed the only way they knew how to do it: composing great masterpieces. Thanks very much for these videos!!!
That penultimate trio for soprano, mezzo and alto is intoxicating. (21.46)
Special appreciation for alto Marketa Cukrova, who solidly grounds each line with satisfying richness of tone and sincere understanding in the aria "Tu ad liberandum"; her colleague Kamala Mazalova (nee Sevcikova in the Ostrava choir Adash) has a different timbre but equally communicative. Director Luks must treat his colleagues well, since they all seem delighted to join him in these effervescent performances of Zelenka, Bach, Handel, Tuma and other geniuses. Will Collegium 1704 tour the USA in 2016?
Verdaderamente majestuoso y brillantemente armoniosao;
Zelenka needs to be recognized as a major composer of the Baroque era, at least with regard to "sacred" music ... though his oboe sonatas are also superb. Such "Schwung" and momentum in the allegros. One can hardly criticize Luks for the obvious joy he has in conducting this! (After all, anyway, most of the conductor's work is done in rehearsal.)
Fascinante Václav Luks , así ha de haber lucido Zelenka . Bravo !!
Omg this performances is amacing, i have never listened the music of this compositor, wonderfull music.
My favourite part of this is the conductor adjusting the score on the stand -- looking, shall we dare say, nervous? But as soon as the music begins, it all disappears. :)
I feel like it's quite usual. He looks always nervous, distracted, but then the music makes him all realxed and concentrated again.
Wonderful-thanks to Vaclav Luks and all.
A great execution and a very comprehensive explanatory text. Thank you
Extraordinária performance... e que peça musical que é um hino a e de Deus...Ouçam-na. Prometo que Não vão perder os tais 30' que demora. É mesmo de uma beleza estonteante.
È una preghiera commovente vibrante aDio grazie❤❤❤❤❤❤😊😊😊
SUPER DUPER ' O.T.W. ' (OUT OF THIS WORLD) ! AS I AND GRANDMASTER DE KOVEN WOULD SAY ! CAN'T WAIT TO HEAR AND SEE PART 2 !
Zelenka(1679-1745) 'was born near Prague but worked for most of his life in Dresden, where he was double bass player in the court orchestra.....wrote 3 oratorios and at least 20 Masses.." The Billboard Encyclopedia of Classical Music
Thanks. These things help us try to understand the social context in which these extraordinary men composed their eternally beautiful music; a zenith of our glorious culture.
I'm glad I watched this video from the comfort of my home, because if I was at the concert I might have screwed stuffy tradition and joyously clapped out loud like a blithering idiot soon after the first movement ended at 5:44- ... C'mon...it was, like...Wow!😵💫😮🫠
glorious!🎉... like...ya know!?!?
Absolutely thrilling!
Sublime. Thanks to all.
wonderful, Marketa Cukrowa!
No me canso de ver este vídeo. IMPRESIONANTE...
Both composers made beautiful music
Absolument fabuleux. Quel dommage que ce compositeur baroque Tchèque soit trop peu connus. Il est vrai qu'il vivait à l'époque de J.S. Bach quj, lui, est passé à la postérité. Espérons que cette injustice sera réparée.
my number one favorite conductor
mine also!
EXCELENTE TRABAJO! REALMENTE EXCELENTE
Evviva il trionfo della bella musica!E direi a prescindere dai testi musicati.
Per quel che si sa di lui, l'autore di questa musica non ha prescisso. Anzi, ha esaltato la sostanza testo, senza la quale la musica stessa non sarebbe esistita.
great performances!
This invigorates the human spirit , and is full of immeasurable admiration and unfathomable emotion
From
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21:50 is soooooo beautiful... It reminds me "Suscepit Israel" from Bach's Magnificat.
Lovely, all of it. And Hana Blazikova is first class.
(actually its not at all surprising Bach liked this guy's music - they're both pretty crazy, ie. baroque! That SSA trio at 'Per singulos dies benedicimus te' sounds like the stile galant bits of the B minor Mass & Magnificat 'Suscepit Israel', and then suddenly CPE Bach for a few bars, and then back just as suddenly)
WONDERFUL ~ thank you!
Thanks as well to the informative text above!
Yes the interpretive genius of Vaclav needs to be commended as superlative,
Maravilloso :)
Beautiful ❤❤
SO MAGNIFICENT! I only wish the video was in HD. It says Mezzo Live HD on the screen but it is not HD
Markéta Cukrová is a force of Nature.
lindo, parabens.
what a beauty at 2:05 !
In the caption picture, it looks like the conductor is getting a dna swab from the lady singer!
Either that or she decided to brush her teeth during a pause in the music! LOL. 😂😂
Tu rex gloriae ! Izvanredno se nadopunjuju Dora i Hana .
I love Zelenka long "motives"
the composer is adorable!
Beautiful, beautiful! Pity the low resolution. Is there perhaps a better?
How cool would it be to have a parody of a Zelenka-work by Bach? :D
It’s very clear to me that Bach studied Zelenka’s work to come up with some good ideas for his own big mass composition.
Yeah! Two composers who loved the "chiquichiri"'s construction in their opera Omnia!
Congratulations, over 100K views!!
Thank you. I didn't know much about the Russian method and did not know that the Czechs did the same thing. So I'm guessing that Maria Sharapova's father's name is Mr. Sharapa. Of course I see that you said the Czech language was similar in this way to Russian and other Slavic languages.... not identical.
Well that's what J. S. Bach is one of the best composers nebe L.v. Beethoven, G.F. Handel and many others from Germany!
AMEN and AMEN>>>>!
Excellnt performance except too much distance between pieces.
Hermosa Obra Grande Zelenka! =)
Does anybody know where I can find the score of this? Carus Verlag published the other Te Deum (ZWV145) but not this one ... thanks
Václav Luks, the Ken Burns of music.
Zelenka could compose a "Ted Deum" because Dresde whrere he lived and worked was a catholic place surrounded by Lutherian teeritories. It is quite precious to have these masterworks of Catholic german baroque music.
THE featuring
what a joyous, energetic and uplifting experience.....pity about breaking continuity of the composition with the "clob, clob, clob" to get soloists to the front....why not just stand at the back, not so nice for the conductor who likes them close by but for the sake of the music it would have been the cherry on top!
Te Deum in D, ZWV 146 (1731) (for SAATB soloists, 2 choruses, orch: 4 tpt, timp, 2 fl, 2 ob, 2 bn, 2 vn, va, bc)
0:35- Te Deum laudamus (Choir)
6:00- Tu rex gloriae (Soprano I and II)
8:40- Tu ad liberandum (Alto)
14:20- Tu ad dexteram Dei sedes (Tenor and Bass)
16:00- Judex crederis (Choir)
18:00- Aeterna fac (Choir)
19:37- Intonatio : Salvum fac
20:05- Et rege eos (Choir)
21:30- Per singulos dies (Soprano I, II and Alto)
26:40- In te, Domine (Choir)
WOW!
Nothing but Zelenka! :,-)
I'm a bit puzzled how someone who has never heard of Zelenka can be such an expert on baroque singing ! I find the singing all the better for the control of excessive vibrato too often heard in so-called "baroque" performances.
🖤 *06:10* 08.35 ⚡18:21...19:51⚡ 🖤 *21:32* 26.29 🖤 ⚡26:47...8... 🖤🙏🏻