
ENSEMBLE SPORCK: Principes de la Flute
A concert exploring the history of the transverse flute in French Baroque. Ensemble Sporck performs music by Jacques Hotteterre and his contemporaries on authentic period instruments.
Ensemble Sporck is a Czech chamber early-music group founded in 2010 by flautist, conductor and musicologist Lukáš M. Vytlačil. The ensemble specialises in historically informed performance of repertoire spanning Renaissance polyphony to late Baroque, with a flexible line-up shaped by each programme. It performs regularly at major Czech festivals - Theatrum Kuks, Hudební festival Znojmo and the Haydn Music Festival among them - and has also appeared in Germany, France, Belgium and Portugal. The name honours Count František Antonín Špork, the most prominent patron of Baroque music in Bohemia.
Lukáš M. Vytlačil was a guest at the XXVII. flute day in Prague and in an interview for the Czech Flute Association described the current direction of Ensemble Sporck and his scientific work at the Historical Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic.
Ensemble Sporck performed on August 31, 2024 in the Church of St. Wenceslas in Rovensko pod Troskami with the program Voices of Wood (Telemann, Händel, Schieferdecker).
At the jubilee 20th edition of the Theatrum Kuks festival, Ensemble Sporck with Lukáš Vytlačil paid tribute to composer Johann Philipp Kirnberger.