"Discover Zelenka with Ensemble Inégal"
Ensemble Inégal
Welcome to the official website of Ensemble Inégal, a Czech baroque vocal-instrumental ensemble based in Prague. The internationally renowned ensemble has as its key mission the rediscovery and rehabilitation of the work and personality of Jan Dismas Zelenka (1679 – 1745). It has performed at festivals such as Prague Spring, Musica Antiqua Brugge, Oude Muziek Utrecht, Lufthansa Festival of baroque music London, De Bijloke Gent, Early Music Festival Stockholm, BachFest Leipzig, Tage alter Musik Regensburg and many others. He has made 25 recordings that have received numerous awards, such as Diapason d’Or, Diapason Découverte, Record Review Outstanding, Goldberg 5Stars, etc. The ensemble regularly appears on Czech and foreign television and radio stations (BBC, European Broadcasting Union EBU, BR, Deutschlandradio Kultur, Czech Television, etc.). Its artistic director and conductor is Adam Viktora.
News
We finished recording the new CD!
You can look forward to two of Zelenka’s works that we recently performed at a concert at the Church of St. Simon and Jude. Missa Circumcisionis ZWV 11 was given its Czech premiere and Litaniae de Venerabili Sacramento ZWV 148 was given its world premiere.
Concert 7th May 2025, J.D. Zelenka: Missa Circumcisionis ZWV 11 (Czech premiere) and Litaniae de Venerabili Sacramento ZWV 148 (world premiere)
On 7th May 2025, we performed Zelenka’s Missa Circumcisionis ZWV 11 in the Czech premiere and Litaniea de Venerabili Sacramento ZWV 148 in the world premiere at the Church of St. Simon and Jude.
Interview with Adam Viktora for Radiožurnál
“With each of Zelenka’s works you discover a new way of thinking, a new system, thoughts and ideas,”says organist and conductor Adam Viktora, who organises festivals and conferences dedicated to Czech composer Jan Dismas Zelenka. What is the key to a proper interpretation of his work? And how are unknown
Adam Viktora: Zelenka is not the Czech Bach!
“If you remember from years past the mysterious stories about Jan Dismas Zelenka, who disappeared from all the Prague chronicles for several years and returned not as Lukáš but as the sinner Dismas, because he had apparently done something wrong, maybe even been arrested and repented, or maybe he was
World premiere and concert on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the ensemble
On the occasion of the 25th anniversary of Ensemble Inégal and as part of its 19th anniversary Subscription Cycle will be performed the Czech premiere of the magnificent festive mass Missa Circumcisionis ZWV 11 and the world premiere of the previously unknown work Litaniae de Venerabili Sacramento ZWV 148 by
New CD J.D. Zelenka: Statio quadruplex ZWV 158
We are honoured to present our latest CD with a previously unknown work by Jan Dismas Zelenka, STATIO QUADRUPLEX for Processione Theophorica ZWV 158.
