Album

Czech Ensemble Baroque, Roman Válek

Tůma: Vesperae

Catalogue Number: SU 4352-2
Published: 15th November 2024
Genre: Vocal
Format: 1 CD
František Ignác Antonín Tůma (1704-1774) – Vesperae de confessore* (1753), Stabat Mater, Litaniae Reginae martyrum* (1758), Ouverture in C*, Sinfonia in d*, Partita in g*

Romana Kružíková, Zuzana Badárová – soprano, Lucie Karafiátová – alto, Matúš Šimko – tenor, Jiří Miroslav Procházka – bass. Czech Ensemble Baroque, conductor Roman Válek

Tůma was a renowned mid-18th-century Vienna musical figure. He was primarily lauded for his sacred works, written either in the strict polyphonic stile antico or in the more modern figural style. The current album, a new instalment in Czech Ensemble Baroque’s series of Tůma recordings, focuses on specific types of liturgical pieces from the composer’s later creative period. The lustre of the vespers and litanies (Vesperae de confessore, Litaniae Reginae martyrum), designated for performance on major feast days, is enhanced by natural trumpets and timpani. The album includes one of Tůma’s eight surviving settings of the famous medieval sequence Stabat Mater. Furthermore, the composer wrote a great many instrumental pieces in which he applied elements of the modern galant style, while also embracing techniques characteristic of Italian and French music. The grandiose and lavishly instrumented Ouverture in C contrasts starkly with the more modest Sinfonia in d, based on the Neapolitan opera sinfonia, and the Partita in g, which, just like Stabat Mater, have survived within a music collection in Vienna. The pieces Tůma wrote during his late creative phase provide ample proof of his compositional mastery and ability to blend the old and new stylistic trends, with the result being remarkable sacred and instrumental music. With the exception of Stabat Mater, Czech Ensemble Baroque present all the works featured on this album in modern-day premiere.

Tůma’s top-notch sacred and instrumental pieces – more gems in modern-day premiere
František Ignác Antonín Tůma
Te Deum
1. I. Ouverture – Fuga – Adagio – Fuga da capo 05:36
2. II. Menuet – Trio (Polonese) – Menuet da capo 03:30
František Ignác Antonín Tůma
Vesperae de confessore
3. Dixit Dominus 01:45
4. Confitebor tibi Domine 02:09
5. Beatus vir 02:50
6. Laudate pueri 01:39
7. Laudate Dominum 01:28
8. Magnificat 02:14
František Ignác Antonín Tůma
Sinfonia in d
9. I. Largo 02:00
10. II. Allegretto 03:00
11. III. Andante 01:20
12. IV. Moderato 02:56
František Ignác Antonín Tůma
Stabat Mater
13. Stabat Mater 02:32
14. O quam tristis 01:22
15. Quis est homo 01:54
16. Sancta Mater 01:15
17. Fac me tecum 03:10
18. Fac me plagis 03:00
František Ignác Antonín Tůma
Partita in g
19. I. Grave – Allegro – Grave 03:51
20. II. Allegro 00:59
21. III. Menuet 01:13
22. IV. Allegro 02:27
František Ignác Antonín Tůma
Litaniae Reginae Martyrum
23. Kyrie eleison 02:19
24. Sancta Maria 02:55
25. Speculum iustitiae 02:11
26. Salus infirmorum 01:59
27. Agnus Dei 01:13