This collection offers Christmas pastorales and fugues of Czech composers of the 18th century (Josef Seger, Jakub Valerián Pausa, Frantisek Xaver Brixi, Jirí Ignác Linka, Jan Krtitel Vanhal, Jan Krtitel Kuchar and Karel Blazej Kopriva). As with other European national cultures, the Czech lands also have their own unique and distinctive national music to characterise the Christmas festivities.

The Czech Christmas pastorales of the Early Baroque period were ordinarily sung with accompaniment, ...