THE CZECH ENSEMBLE BAROQUE'S NEW ALBUM

The new album of the Czech Ensemble Baroque titled Vesperae, featuring specific liturgical pieces from the later creative period of František Ignác Antonín Tůma, has received a very positive review in the January issue of Gramophone.

“In all of this the Czech Ensemble Baroque put barely a foot wrong. The resonant acoustic seems appropriate to this style of church music but allows the timpani to boom disconcertingly. The soloists all step out from the choir and acquit themselves admirably. A theorbo gives added depth to the continuo and is a welcome presence in the instrumental works that punctuate the programme, based on French and Italian models. A fascinating voyage of discovery into Viennese church music traditions in the years before Haydn and Mozart.”

Read the full review HERE.