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Zelenka Goodness From Stuttgart

Review by: Jens F. Laurson

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Jan Dismas Zelenka is one of the most consistent sources of delight: A major late-baroque composer known well enough to be performed but still so unexploited as to bear constant surprises and discoveries. Case in point, this Missa Sancti Josephi, a Mass, like the Missa Divi Xaverii (Accent), that skips the Credo. Two Psalms–De profundis ZWV50 and In exitu Israel ZWV84–round out the disc. Frieder Bernius and his Stuttgart forces deliver the goods, aided by a vocal cast led by the superb (except for one dodgy exposed top note in the Sanctus) Julia Lezhneva. Daniel Taylor, vocally on the way out, does well on this occasion... continue reading [Insider content; your support is immensely, keenly appreciated.]

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]…

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Ionarts-at-Large: Zelenka to fall in Love with at the Konzerthaus

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Jan Dismas Zelenka (1679 – 1745) is a composer waiting to be fallen in love with—if only the half-way inclined listener gets a sufficient dose to hear of him. January 25^th at the Wiener Konzerthaus provided such a chance with two Zelenka masterpieces performed as part of the ambitious annual Resonanzen Festival. Sweetening the deal to those Zelenkistas that were in attendance (with still plenty room for more, in the Grosser Saal) was the presence of

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