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International Record Review - (12//2014)
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Reviewer:  Robert Matthew-Walker

At the time Bach was working in Leipzig, his younger contemporary Josef Antonin Sehling (1710‑56) was active in Prague, principally as an orchestral violinist and admired composer. Count Morzin, in whose orchestra Sehling played, was a major patron of Antonio Vivaldi, and through frequent contact with the Italian master's latest work Sehling's own style was largely influenced. With such an Italian‑Catholic musical influence rather than the Germanic‑Lutheran style of Bach, Stehling's music looks forward to the later eighteenth century, which he sadly did not see himself. A new Supraphon CD, Christmas in Prague Cathedral, in the series 'Music from 18th‑Century Prague', has notable musical significance: each of the 12 individual tracks is claimed to be a world premiere recording, revealing this hitherto tittle‑known eighteenth‑century master on disc for the first time. Sehling's music therefore bears a Vivaldian stamp, as we may hear in the aria 'Qui sidera movet' from the motet for Christ's birth, Deponite Metum, brilliantly sung by Hana Blazikova, as is indeed the rest of this work, with its thrilling 'Alleluja' choral ending, the orchestra coloured by hunting‑calls from the horns. Sehling's orchestral command is excellent ‑ as one expects from an orchestral player – and this CD has musical interest outside of the season for which the pieces were originally composed. The performances, particularly from alto Markéta Cukrova and tenor Viclav Cizek (a beautiful voice, most intelligently applied in a fine duet Vis ingens est favori with Blazikova) and the Collegium Marianum Prague under Jana Semerádová, are little short of revelatory throughout.
  
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