The Marian Consort, The Illyria Consort & Bojan Čičić – Adriatic Voyage: Seventeenth-Century Music from Venice to Dalmatia (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 58:26 minutes | 1000 MB | Genre: Classical
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In March 1575, a party led by the Venetian diplomat Giacomo Soranzo set out on a mission to Constantinople. They sailed down the Istrian coast, along the length of present-day Croatia, and on to the Bay of Kotor. Much of the land they passed was the territory of the Serenissima – inhabited by both Italians and Slavs, and of strategic importance since it was exposed to constant Turkish threats from the Balkan hinterland.
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Barnaby Smith, The Illyria Consort – Barnaby Smith: Bach (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:21:54 minutes | 1,46 GB | Genre: Classical
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Basel/Scholl-trained countertenor, conductor and Artistic Director Barnaby Smith releases his second solo album on 24 February 2023. Usually to be found directing and singing with VOCES8, conducting orchestras and choirs around the world or teaching, one of Barney’s lockdown silver linings was the space, time and inspiration to step into the studio as a soloist. After the success of his debut album ‘Handel’, Barney returns with ‘Bach’.
‘Bach’ features a collection of JS Bach’s finest music for the alto voice, accompanied by an exceptional line-up of some of the UK’s finest Baroque chamber musicians, led by Bojan Čičić. Programmed in a cycle, the repertoire reflects the story from Candlemas, through the Passion to the Resurrection, demonstrating the unequalled beauty of Bach’s writing.
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Bojan Čičić, The Illyria Consort – La Notte: Concertos & Pastorales for Christmas Night (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:05:50 minutes | 1,26 GB | Genre: Classical
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Bojan Čičić and the Illyria Consort’s latest Delphian recording revels in the great variety of musical styles and traditions that grew up around Christmas and its related feasts in Catholic Europe in the seventeenth century – a time when the introduction of ‘rustic’ effects into instrumental music changed the sound of Christmas forever.
The vivid theatricality of Baroque evocations of the shepherds and their milieu and the unusual combinations of instruments in much of this music, here given in performances brimming with energy and the joy of rediscovery, make this a Christmas album to reach for every year.
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Bojan Čičić, The Illyria Consort – Johann Jakob Walther: Scherzi da violino solo (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:40:44 minutes | 1,92 GB | Genre: Classical
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Johann Jakob Walther was one of the most significant violinists in Germany in the generation before Johann Sebastian Bach, and Bojan Čičić believes his music should be essential listening for anyone seeking a fuller understanding of Bach’s polyphonic writing for the instrument. Having built their reputation with a series of Delphian recordings focussing on “missing link” composers, Čičić and his Illyria Consort are passionate about bringing Walther’s collection of Scherzi da violino to the wider audience it deserves. This first complete recording displays the sheer ambition of Walther’s opus, with highlights including his demonstration of the violin’s polyphonic potential in the D major Sonata (No. III); the joyful playfulness of the end of No. IV; the inventiveness of the Imitatione del cuccu; and – Bojan Čičić’s personal favourite – the dramatic melancholy of the final Aria in E minor.
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