The two Bohemian composers represented on this release are both known for their piano works and for a few orchestral pieces, when they are known at all. The two substantial masses heard here are quite new to the performance world; the Mass in B flat major, Op. 24, of Jan Vorísek was first published in 1997, and the Messa con Graduale et Offertorio, Op. 46, of Václav Tomásek was retrieved by the Czech historical-performance group Musica Florea from manuscripts at the Czech Museum of Music, by means of photographs. That's an ...
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The two Bohemian composers represented on this release are both known for their piano works and for a few orchestral pieces, when they are known at all. The two substantial masses heard here are quite new to the performance world; the Mass in B flat major, Op. 24, of Jan Vorísek was first published in 1997, and the Messa con Graduale et Offertorio, Op. 46, of Václav Tomásek was retrieved by the Czech historical-performance group Musica Florea from manuscripts at the Czech Museum of Music, by means of photographs. That's an admirable enterprising attitude, and in general the music, while not earth-shattering, helps fill in the generally sketchy picture of choral music in the early Romantic period. Both pieces are masses with an added Gradual and Offertory, and they are further linked by the fact that Tomásek was Vorísek's teacher. The Tomásek mass is more than a decade older than the Vorísek, and it clearly shows the influence of what conductor Marek Stryncl, in a booklet interview, called Beethoven's...
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