Michna - Missa à 7, Cantiones, Requiem

Adam Václav Michna z Otradovic (1600 – 1676) was a Czech catholic poet, composer, organist and choir leader of early baroque era. About 230 of his compositions from three Czech and two Latin collections are known today. This album content his masses and cantiones. Performed by Capella regia muscialis with conductor Robert Hugo and soloists Stanislav Předota, Milada Čechalová, Magdalena Černá, Jana Lewitová, Michael Pospíšil and Marcin Bornus Sczycinski. Thius recording was awareded by Grammy Classics in 1993.

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Michna - Missa Super "The Sun has Come Forth from the Star"

Missa Super "Již slunce z hvězdy vyšlo" (The Sun has Come Forth from the Star) by the ensemble Ritornello, conducted by Michal Pospíšil is a compilative album, artificially creating long version of Adam Michna Christmas Mass by adding various thematically similar compositions to standard liturgical parts of his mass. Michna’s mass, becomes a great and even the greatest musical form precisely when it is placed in the context of everything ”that belongs to it” in the ritual itself and in music.

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Vejvanovský, Zach, Černohorský, Brentner, Rovenský, Linek, Michna - Czech Baroque Music, Vol.2

Collection of Czech Baroque music, vol.2, including compositions of Pavel Josef Vejvanovský (~1640-1693), Jan Josef Ignác Brentner (1689-1742), Bohuslav Matěj Černohorský (1684-1742), Václav Karel Holan Rovenský (~1644-1718), Adam Václav Michna z Otradovic (~1600-1676), Jiří Ignác Linek (1725-1791) and Jan Zach (1699-1773).

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Michna - Officium vespertinum

The collection of psalms Officium vespertinum (1648) of Adam Václav Michna, the Knight of Otradovice was long thought lost and it was recently discovered in Austria. It was dedicated to the Town Council of České Budějovice in southern Bohemia, on 1 October 1648.The album, performed by Capella regia musicalis under direction of Robert Hugo, playing original instruments of the early Baroque era,;contents apart from the psalms also other compositions of A.Michna, that complete the aural picture of mid-seventeenth century music.

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Michna - Loutna česká (Czech Lute)

Adam Václav Michna of Otradovice (1600-1676) is one of the most significant personalitiy of early Czech baroque. While the majority of his works remind us of the music from traditional hymn books, The Czech Lute is written (as the author mentioned) for Holidays, for the Church, at the table, as one wishes, for any time, for pleasure, for devotion, composed and published in 1653. It comes much closer to a modern cycle of love songs. 

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