Hana BLAŽÍKOVÁ | soprano
Barbora KABÁTKOVÁ | soprano
Daniela ČERMÁKOVÁ | alto
Vojtěch SEMERÁD | tenor
Tomáš LAJTKEP | tenor
Tomáš KRÁL | baritone
Roman HOZA | baritone
Jaromír NOSEK | bass

Richard ŠEDA | cornetto
Miroslav KŮZL | cornetto
Gerhard SCHNEIDER | alto trombone
Ondřej SOKOL | tenor trombone
Bernhard RAINER | bass trombone
Jan KREJČA | theorbo
Pablo KORNFELD | organ

Vojtěch SEMERÁD | artistic director

Towards the end of the 16th century, Prague became the residential city of the Imperial Court. A great lover of the arts, Rudolf II invited to Prague the best artists of the time and thus transformed the provincial city into one of the cultural centres of renaissance Europe, providing it with lustre omparable to the royal courts in France and Spain.

The programme comprises sacred and secular music by the court composer Philippe de Monte, as well as music by his contemporaries whose music was performed in Prague in Rudolf’s times.