Programme

Music for the feature film “Saint Wenceslas”

Hospodine, pomiluj ny
Cantio Svatý Václave
Guillaume de Machaut (1300–1377): He!Mors
Antiphona Laudes canens Davidicas
Organum Mors
Hymnus Lux vera lucis radium
Cantio O felicem genitricem/Bohu svému
Guillaume de Machaut: Inviolata genitrix
Kyrie Fons bonitatis
Cantio Martir Dei Wenceslaus
Moteto Brumans est mors
Responsorium Media vita
Lejch Otep myrhy
Planctus Quis dabit
Cantio Quae es ista
Lejch Ach homo fragilis
Petrus Wilhelmi de Grudencz (1392–1480): Prefulcitam expolitam
Codex Faenza
Carmina Burana
Codex Speciálník – Náš milý svatý Václave
Sequentia Diaes irae
Johannes Ockeghem (cca. 1410–1497): Requiem aeternam

Adoration of main Bohemian patrons literally growed the history of the nation that has in its saints own spiritual essence. Besides numerous shrines dedicated to their cult arise from early Middle Ages many musical oeuvres composed in their honor. The musical acompaniment presents deeply revered saint of Bohemia St. Wenceslaus and Ste. Ludmila, theirs life and martyr. It is composed by choral songs, hymns, polyphonic oeuvres and motets from Czech sources. Next to it the program brings instrumental production of the same period to accompany crucial moments of the epic film Svatý Václav from 1929.