Te Deum, Missa Eucharistica, Credo: Viktora / Ensemble Inegal

JAN DISMAS ZELENKA:
Te Deum ZWV 145
Missa Eucharistica ZWV 15
Credo ZWV 31

Gabriela Eibenova: soprano
Lenka Cafourova: soprano
Jonathan Mayenschein: alto
Tobias Hunger: tenor
Tomas Selc: bass
Ensemble Inegal
conducted by Adam Viktora

The music on this CD was written between 1723 and 1733, the most productive period of Jan Dismas Zelenka’s tenure as a composer at the Dresden court. During this time he composed a large number of works for the liturgical services in the Catholic court church, including numerous Masses, requiems, hymns, Marian antiphons, litanies and more than 30 vesper psalms, which recently have been recorded by Ensemble Inegal and released on the Nibiru label. Zelenka’s flurry of compositional activity in Dresden began in earnest in 1722 when he was commissioned to write all the works for Holy Week; what followed in the next eleven years was a stream of music of extraordinary quality, as indeed heard on this recording.