Lute Concert
At the Habsburg Courts
Friday, 11. 9. 2020 at 19:00
St. Louis Castle Chapel
Jevišovice (Czechia)
The concert, part of the ”Silberbauer’s Musical Thaya Region” festival, will feature the acclaimed baroque ensemble Plaisirs de Musique, led by its artistic director and lutenist Jan Čižmář.
The concert is held as part of the Czech-Austrian international music festival ”Silberbauer’s Musical Thaya Region”, which takes its name from the Znojmo Baroque organ builder who was active in the Thaya/Thayatal region and contributes to the rediscovery of his name by the wider public in both South Moravia and Lower Austria.
After the concert, a wine tasting from Žiška winery from Jaroslavice.
Künstler
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was founded in 2013 and specialises in the authentic interpretation of music from earlier stylistic periods. The ensemble’s members are leading European professional musicians playing period instruments, as well as singers, actors, and dancers. Plaisirs de Musique projects are realised under the artistic direction of Jan Čižmář in collaboration with experts in historical dance and theatre. The programme offers a wide spectrum ranging from chamber projects to orchestral settings. It finds inspiration primarily in new discoveries from music archives and strives for an attractive combination of early music with other art forms. However, it also ventures into other musical genres, for example, in the project Misterios del Amor with Eliška Tesařová and Marian Friedl. The programme also includes educational events and concerts for children’s audiences. The Plaisirs de Musique ensemble performs at major music festivals, as well as private or corporate events. Plaisirs de Musique also organises its own series of concerts in Brno and other places in the Czech Republic. For 2021, performances are planned at festivals in the Netherlands, Germany, France, Austria, and Poland.
Jan Čižmář – Renaissance lute, Baroque lute
Marta Kratochvílová – Renaissance transverse flute, Baroque transverse flute
Anežka Šejnohová – Renaissance transverse flute, Baroque transverse flute
Piotr Waclawik – viola da gamba
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After graduating in classical guitar and musicology in Brno, Jan Čižmář studied lute and related instruments at the Royal College of Music in London and the Royal Conservatoire in The Hague, where his teachers included Jakob Lindberg, Nigel North, Joachim Held, Mike Fentross and Christina Pluhar. In addition to solo Baroque and Renaissance repertoire, he is intensively involved in chamber music.
The early music ensemble Plaisirs de Musique performs under his artistic direction. Jan Čižmář has performed in concerts and opera productions in Europe, Asia and the USA with ensembles such as the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century, Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, Stuttgarter Bachakademie, Vox Luminis, Collegium 1704 or Orkiestra Historyczna, and has collaborated with conductors such as Frans Brüggen, Christopher Hogwood, Giovanni Antonini or Yannick Nézet-Séguin. In chamber projects, his partners have included Christophe Coin, Joel Frederiksen, Joachim Held and Petr Wagner. He has participated in numerous studio and live recordings. On his musical journey, he often encounters other genres. His artistic partners include singer Iva Bittová, the group Spirituál kvintet, dancer Lindsay Kemp, the Nederlands Blazers Ensemble orchestra, and he has also performed on the European concert tour of the musical Jesus Christ Superstar and in Britten’s opera Gloriana.
He is intensively involved in editorial, research, organisational and popularisation activities. He is the founder of the Czech Lute Society, served as editor-in-chief of Kytara magazine, and as a music editor collaborates with, among others, the Bärenreiter music publisher. He is the chairman of the Hudební lahůdky association, which organises a number of concert and music-pedagogical activities. Jan Čižmář taught lute at the Karol Szymanowski Music Academy in Katowice, Poland, and at the Academy of Early Music at the Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University in Brno. He currently works, among others, at JAMU in Brno. He also regularly teaches at other European universities and is invited to masterclasses in Europe and overseas.
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Marta Kratochvílová studied flute at the Conservatory in Pardubice and then at JAMU in Brno. In 2000, she began her studies in France at the Conservatoire National de Région de Strasbourg, where she specialised in Baroque and Renaissance transverse flute in the class of J. F. Alizon and N. Hadden, and in chamber music in the classes of M. Gester and P. Blanc. She participated in masterclasses and internships led by prominent figures such as Paul McCreesh, Barthold Kuijken, Jan-Latham Koenig, Sir Neville Marriner. In France, she was intensively active as a Baroque and Renaissance transverse flute player in ensembles such as Le Parlement de Musique, Bohemia duo, and with the NotaBene ensemble. As part of Renaissance workshops (Ferrara, Munich, Stuttgart, Basel), she regularly performed with the Consort of Renaissance Flutes from Strasbourg.
Since 2010, she has been living in the Czech Republic and continues to perform regularly throughout Europe. She collaborates closely, especially on chamber and solo projects, with artists such as Christophe Coin, Jan Čižmář, Karel Fleischlinger, Joel Frederiksen, Martin Jakubíček, Petr Kolař, Ján Krigovský, Marcin Świątkiewicz, Marc Vonau, and Petr Wagner. She is also the leader of the Renaissance transverse flute consort Tourdion.
As an experienced pedagogue, she is invited to presentations and masterclasses across Europe and also teaches privately the playing and historically informed interpretation of Baroque and Renaissance traverso.
- Anežka Šejnohová (CZ) – Renaissance transverse flute, Baroque transverse flute
- Piotr Waclawik (PL) – viola da gamba
Entritt
Basic 200 Kč
Discounted 160 Kč
Discounted admission applies to SENIOR PAS holders, ISIC card holders, and children under 12 years of age
Programme
(1571–1621)
((ca. 1559–po 1611)
(1505–1567)
(cca. 1480–ca. 1540)
(ca. 1575–1651)
(1667–1716)
A. V. E. (Lobkowicz collection): Lobkowicz manuscript signed A. V. E. (CZ – Nlobkowicz Lb 28)
Suite in F major (33. Adagio – 34. [Gavotte] – 35. Gigue – 36. Menuet)
(1659–1710)
Overture – Allemande – Courante – Minuet – Gavotte – Minuet – Sarabande – Echo – Pasacalle
Codex Jacobides (CZ-Pnm XIII B 237) is a fragment of lute tablature originating from Prague in the early 17th century and contains transcriptions of lute and instrumental music from the court of Rudolf II, including the oldest preserved instrumental composition by a Czech author. The journey to transcribe Codex Jacobides into musical notation was very adventurous, and we owe it to Jiří Tichota. Thanks to him, the melodies appear in the works of Spirituál Kvintet or in the musical Noc na Karlštejně. In Vienna around 1700, playing the lute simultaneously with a bass and melodic instrument was extremely popular, especially among courtiers. Several collections were dedicated to the heir to the throne, the future Emperor Joseph I, which named this genre as Lauthen-Concert, although it is not a concerto in the modern sense.
Fotogallerie
Ort
The Old Castle of Jevišovice stands on a promontory opposite the extinct old castle. During a later late Gothic reconstruction, the fortification of the core on the entrance side was reinforced with a zwinger, and the castle palace was also extended. The old palace was also rebuilt in the Renaissance style. Significant changes also occurred in the forecourt, which was surrounded by Renaissance buildings. Baroque modifications mainly affected the castle chapel and the ground floor of the eastern wing of the core. The interior preserves Gothic and Renaissance window jambs, Gothic and Renaissance vaults on the ground floor and first floor, and the Baroque chapel of St. Louis. The interior was adapted for museum purposes in the 1980s, and today the castle houses the aforementioned permanent exhibitions.
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