Ensemble Inegal at Cesky Krumlov

Synopsis

Lucie Skeaping presents a concert given by the Czech soprano Gabriela Eibenova with the Prague-based Ensemble Inegal under the baton of their founder Adam Viktoria. The concert was recorded at the astonishing castle at Cesky Krumlov in southern Bohemia, near the Austrian border.

It features one of Vivaldi's 230 violin concertos, performed by the ensemble's leader Adela Stajnochrova as well as his beautiful setting of the Salve regina. The main focus of the concert is music by local composer Johann Brentner, whose name has all but dropped out of the repertoire outside his native Bohemia. Gabriela Eibenova performs five of Brentner's 12 sacred arias, published in 1720 as his Op 3 (Hymnodia divina).

Johann Brentner: O beata, per quam data (Hymnodia divina, Op 3); Cor aude ad arma; In te confido (Hymnodia divina, Op 3); Concerto No 4 in G (Horae pomeridianae, Op 4)

Vivaldi: Salve Regina, RV617; Violin Concerto in B flat, RV383
Adela Stajnochrova (violin)

Brentner: Parce mihi Domine (Hymnodia divina, Op 3); Sine te, O Jesu (Hymnodia divina, Op 3).

Broadcast

1. Sat 7 Nov 2009
   13:00
   BBC Radio 3