Concert recording A lily among the thorns
The concert “Lilia wśród cierni” (Lily Among Thorns) introduces listeners to the world of early-Baroque music in the Kingdom of Bohemia through several striking contrasts. Refined musical virtuosity—far beyond the purely instrumental—meets the simple yet gripping lyrical poetics of the strophic songs by the knight Adam Václav Michna z Otradovic.
The programme also features works by Heinrich I. F. Biber and by the equally remarkable Samuel Capricornus, born in Žerčice near Mladá Boleslav—both of whom, unlike Michna, were Baroque cosmopolitans. Vincenzo Albrici, too, travelled widely across Europe before spending the last eight years of his life as an organist in Prague.
Hana BLAŽÍKOVÁ | soprano
COLLEGIUM MARIANUM
Jana SEMERÁDOVÁ | traverso, artistic director
Lenka TORGERSEN | Baroque violin, concert master
Magdalena MALÁ | Baroque violin and viola
Krzysztof FIRLUS | viola da gamba
Julia KARPETA | violone
Jan KREJČA | theorbo
Filip HRUBÝ | organ positive