Forbes Classical CD of the Week: Zelenka To Fall In Love With

…Jan Dismas Zelenka (1679 – 1745) is a composer waiting to be fallen in love with. All he needs is for the half-way inclined listener (and that’s anyone who loves Bach, really) to get a good ear-full on one or two occasions. This disc of two masses, the Missa Divi Xaverii ZWV 12 and the Litaniae de Sancto Xaverio ZWV 156, offers such a first ear-full that should suffice for Euterpe’s arrows (assuming she operates along the lines of Eros/Cupid) to hit their target.[1]…

-> Classical CD Of The Week: Zelenka To Fall In Love With

Jan Dismas Zelenka, Missa Divi Xaverii, Litaniae de Sancto Xaviero, Collegium (Vocale) 1704, Václav Luks (director), ACCENT 24301 [71:28]