Concert series 2022

21. 5. 2021 19.30 (postponed from November 2021)

XVI. ročník abonentního cyklu Ensemble Inégal 2022

Praha, Kostel U Salvátora, Salvátorská 1, Praha 1

Jan Dismas Zelenka: Missa Sancti Spiritus ZWV 4

Jan Dismas Zelenka: Litaniae Lauretanae ZWV 149 (světová premiéra)

Vstupenky jsou k dispozici v předprodejní síti GoOut zde nebo půl hodiny před začátkem koncertu v místě jeho konání.

4. 9. 2022 19.30

XVI. ročník abonentního cyklu Ensemble Inégal 2022

Praha, Kostel U Salvátora, Salvátorská 1, Praha 1

Jan Dismas Zelenka: Missa Charitatis ZWV 10

Jan Dismas Zelenka: Litaniae Xaverinianae ZWV 154

Vstupenky jsou k dispozici v předprodejní síti GoOut zde nebo půl hodiny před začátkem koncertu v místě jeho konání.

1. 10. 2022 19.30

XVI. ročník abonentního cyklu Ensemble Inégal 2022

Praha, kostel Panny Marie pod řetězem, Lázeňská ul. Praha 1

Georg Friedrich Händel: Chandos Anthems

Vstupenky jsou k dispozici v předprodejní síti GoOut zde nebo půl hodiny před začátkem koncertu v místě jeho konání.

18. 12. 2022 19.30

XV. ročník abonentního cyklu Ensemble Inégal 2021

Praha, Velkopřevorský palác, Rytířský sál, Lázeňská ul. Praha 1

Adventní koncert

H. I. F. Biber: Růžencové sonáty

Vstupenky jsou k dispozici v předprodejní síti GoOut zde nebo půl hodiny před začátkem koncertu v místě jeho konání.

Concert series 2021

3. 10. 2021 19.30

XV. Ensemble Inégal series 2021

Praha, kostel Panny Marie pod řetězem, Lázeňská ul. Praha 1

Johann Caspar Ferdinand Fischer: Offertoria

Georg Friedrich Händel: Donna che in ciel

Info and tickets here.

7. 11. 2021 17.00

XV. Ensemble Inégal series 2021

Praha, Vršovické Divadlo MANA, Moskevská 34, Praha 10

Loutkando Grando aneb kouzelné hraní s barokní hudbou

Performance for children

with Divadlo pod Šťastnou Hvězdou

Tickets in MANA theatre.

8. 11. 2021 9.15 and 10.45

XV. Ensemble Inégal series 2021

Praha, Vršovické Divadlo MANA, Moskevská 34, Praha 10

Loutkando Grando aneb kouzelné hraní s barokní hudbou

Performance for children, booked for schools

with Divadlo pod Šťastnou Hvězdou

Tickets on gabriela.eibenova@gmail.com

30. 11. 2021 19.30

XV. Ensemble Inégal series 2021

Praha, Kostel U Salvátora, Salvátorská 1, Praha 1

Jan Dismas Zelenka: Missa Sancti Spiritus ZWV 4,

Jan Dismas Zelenka: Litaniae Lauretanae ZWV 149 (světová premiéra)

Info and tickets here.

OUR CONCERT SERIES 2020

Upcoming concert

25. 11. 2020, 19:30, Praha

Opening concert of XIV. Concert Series of Ensemble Inégal 2020

Program: J. D. Zelenka - Missa Sancti Spiritus ZWV 4, Litaniae Lauretanae ZWV 149 (world premiere)

Church U Salvátora, Salvátorská 1, Praha 1

Concert series 2019

3rd concert / 13th Ensemble Inégal Concert Series

29. 11. 2019 Velkopřevorský Palace, Praha

Performances for children/ 13th Ensemble Inégal Concert Series

21. - 22. 10. 2019 Divadlo Na Maninách Praha 7

17. 5. 2019, 19:30, Prague, The Czech Republic

2nd concert / 13th Ensemble Inégal Concert Series

Jan Dismas Zelenka - Missa Sanctae Caeciliae ZWV 2

The Church of Our Lady beneath the Chain, Prague 1, Lázeňská 2

Tickets

16. 1. 2019, 19:30 - Prague, The Czech Republic

1st concert / 13th Ensemble Inégal Concert Series

Claudio Monteverdi, Giovanni Antonio Rigatti, Samuel Capricornus

Dvořák´s Hall of Rudolfinum, Prague 1

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2018

3rd concert of 11th Ensemble Inégal Concert Series 2017

ANTONÍN DVOŘÁK - Mše D Dur op. 86 „Lužanská“

Restoration of the unique Pilsen version in composer´s adaptation for soloists and choir accompanied

by harmonium, cello and contrabass.

Thursday 4 May 2017, 19:35 The Church of Our Lady beneath the Chain of the End of the Bridge

Dvořák´s Mass in D Major op. 86 is one of the most important liturgical compositions in the Czech

music history. It was comissioned by architect, building contractor and patron Josef Hlávka in

occasion of a chaple consecration in Lužany castle in 1887.

Altogether there are four versions of this Dvořák´s Mass. First for singers accompanied only by organ

(Lužany version), second for choir and one or two harmoniums, cello and doublebasses (Pilsen

version – 1888 – this version was renovated by Ensemble Inégal artistic director Adam Viktora). Next

one (Prague version) is for mixed choir accompanied by organ, cellos and double basses and this way

it was performed in Prague in Rudolfinum in 1889. The last orchestral version was published on

request by English Publisher Novello. This version became very popular in English speaking world.

The firts public performance of Dvořák´s Mass in Pilsen (1888) was only due to remarkable

invetiveness by its protagonists. Pilsen Church representatives did not give permission to perform it

in any Pilsen cathedral therefore it was in the end achieved in the local theatre and the organ part

was rearranged for 2 harmoniums, cello and two doublebasses. It was actually some kind of romantic

basso continuo that implies accompaniment inseparably connected with baroque music. Baroque

interpretation of liturgical music accompanied by basso continuo was in fact common untill second

half of 19th centrury in Bohemia. Dvořák used in his interpretation the newly invented instrument

harmonium - a typical element of romantic sound imagination that became later very popular.

During our performance we will use historical concert harmonium Schiedmayer from the end of the

19th century.

These were Dvořák´s words in which he announce finishing of the composition of Mass in D Major to

engineer Hlávka who commissioned this piece: “ … I have the honour to announce that I have happily

accomplished this work and I frankly feel the joy. I think that it will be a work that will meet its

purpose. It could be called: faith, hope and love to the supreme God and thanks for such a great gift

that I was given the chance to finish this piece to the praise of the God and to the honour of Art. Don´t

be surprised that I am so religous but an artist who is not will never achieve anything like this. Don´t

we have example in Beethoven, Bach, Raffael and many others? Finally, I thank you that you gave me

such an impulse to write a work in this form. I would hardly ever think of this as until now I have

written similar works only in large scale and funds…“.

2nd concert of 11th Ensemble Inégal Concert Series 2017

Samuel Capricornus – Opera virtuosa

5th April, 2017, 19:30

Ritter´s Hall / Velkopřevorský Palace, Velkopřevorské nám. 4, Prague 1

tickets here

The program will be Samuel Capricorn’s works and also compositions by his contemporaries,

Heinrich Ignác Franz Biber and Johann Heinrich Schmelzer.

Soloists:

Gabriela Eibenová, soprano

Lenka Torgersen, baroque violin

Richard Šeda, zink

Hana Fleková, viola da gamba

Jan Čižmář, teorbo

Adam Viktora, organ

The world encyclopedias consider the Czech native Samuel Capricorn (1628-1664) as one of

the most significant musical personality in the evolution of the German sacred music among

Schütz and Bach. His extraordinarily extensive work comprises from more than 400 opuses.

It soon gained considerable respect of the most influencial Capricorn‘s contemporaries.

Giacomo Cassini performed Capricorn’s works in Rome and for Heinrich Schütz was his work

“opera virtuosa”. Born in the middle of Bohemia in Žerčice (near Mladá Boleslav), studied in

Sopron (Hungary) and Saxony (Germany), was a “Director musicae” in Bratislava (Slovakia)

and died as a court Kapellmeister of Eberhard III. Duke of Würtenberg in Stuttgart.

Jan Dismas Zelenka - Psalmi Vespertini III

world premiere of complete performance of the 3rd Vespers cycle

Opening concert of 11th Ensemble Inégal Concert Series 2017

Ensemble Inégal has merged for four years into an interpretatively least touched universe of Zelenka’s spellbinding psalm world. This year there are on the programme his third series.

Tickets are available here

Confitebor tibi Domine ZWV 70, In exitu Israel ZWV 84, In convertendo ZWV 91, Laudate Dominum ZWV 87, Beati omnes ZWV 94, Confitebor Angelorum ZWV 100, Memento Domine David ZWV 98, Domine probasti me ZWV 101

Czech Baroque Music – Discoveries & Surprises 2012

The year 2012 marks the 6th season of this unique concert series organized by Ensemble Inégal.

Concert tickets for this series may be purchased through our Minishop or Via Musica

I. Jan Dismas Zelenka – Missa Sanctissimae Trinitatis

One of the grandest and most significant compositions of the ingenious baroque composer J.D. Zelenka, ranking him among the likes of Bach, Händel and Vivaldi. After not having been performed for a good many years, Ensemble Inégal is now the first to reintroduce this work to the Czech public.

II. Adam Václav Michna z Otradovic – St. Wenceslas Mass

With this program, Ensemble Inégal opens a new chapter in the rediscovery of the rich output of Adam Václav Michna, the most influential Czech composer from the early Baroque period.

III. Baroque Music in the Romantic Era …

Baroque works in romantic adaptations for piano and harmonium, and the reconstruction of Dvořák’s famous Mass in D using the author’s accompaniment, following the baroque model of Basso Continuo as it was used at the Mass’ first public performance in 1888.

IV. Prague’s Vivaldi in a Labyrinth of Time …

The program presents Vivaldi’s works as preserved uniquely in musical archives in Prague, juxtaposed to and contrasted with contemporary music by the Estonian composers Arvo Pärt and Veljo Tormis:

A. Vivaldi – Dixit Dominus

V. Tormis – Raua Needmine (“Cursing of the Iron”)

A. Pärt – Fratres, Da Pacem Domine

Ensemble Inégal @ MeetFactory – Centre for Contemporary Art

With David Koller – Shaman Drum & David Černý – Stage Design