The Illyria Consort
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Bojan Cičić is an athletic virtuoso who is comfortably able to communicate the myriad expressive subtleties of Biber's music, sometimes gently and alluringly expressive, at others exuberant... —
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2025, Recording of the Month
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Presto Recording of the Week, 4th July 2025
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2025
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Čičić's distinctive sound - sweet, slightly dry and exquisitely centred - is ideal for the taut beauty of Carbonelli's solo lines. Crucially, Čičić fleshes out the composer's ideas, filling... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 23rd June 2017
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BBC Music Magazine, September 2017, Chamber Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2017
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Adriatic Voyage: Seventeenth-Century Music from Venice to Dalmatia
RecommendedThe Illyria Consort (early music ensemble), Bojan Čičić (violin), Marian Consort (leadvocalist), Rory McCleery, Gawain Glenton
Throughout, singers and instrumentalists breathe and communicate as one, their rapport unbreakable. A recording, in short, packed with fresh discoveries at every turn; and a vivid snapshot of... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, September 2021
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2021
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‘La Notte’: Concertos and Pastorales for Christmas Night
RecommendedBojan Čičić (violin), The Illyria Consort
This joyful album brings together 17th and 18th-century music written for Christmas and its related Catholic feasts...One for every December! —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 25th November 2022
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Čičić acquits himself well in the tricky violin writing, and the lean-sounding Illyria Consort is on its toes. —
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Presto Editor's Choice, March 2019
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Johann Jakob Walther: Scherzi da Violino
Bojan Čičić (violin), The Illyria Consort (early music ensemble)
Čičić makes light work of Walther’s virtuosic gauntlet, audaciously secure in the triple and quadruple stopping that punctuates passages drawing on elaborate bowing and left-hand techniques…[his]... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, August 2022
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Čičić and his Illyria Consort play these Sonate da Camera with expressive warmth and sensibility. The continuo cade varies its colours and textures according to taste and perceived musical requirements,... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, July 2019
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Pyrotechnia: Fire & Fury from 18th-Century Italy
RecommendedBojan Čičić (violin), The Illyria Consort
Čičić scarcely needs to prove his credentials through the medium of the virtuosic solo. The recording, instead, traces the impact of the capriccio-cadenza on the concerto form, and its evolution... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 29th October 2021
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Barnaby Smith: Bach
Barnaby Smith (counter-tenor), The Illyria Consort, Leo Duarte (oboe), Bojan Čičić (violin), Katie Jeffries-Harris, Reiko Ichise, Steven Devine
one of the album’s highlights [is] an intimate, enchanting account of the Credo’s ‘Et in unum Dominum’ for which he’s joined by mezzo Katie Jeffries-Harris. It’s beautifully done, the voices... —
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Barnaby Smith: Handel
Barnaby Smith, Bojan Čičić (violin), Catriona McDermid, Mary Bevan (soprano), Gavin Edwards, The Illyria Consort
Smith’s instrument is sweet, intense and bursting with colours, qualities which peak in the lyricism of ‘Ombra mai fù’ (Serse), ‘Cara sposa’ (Rinaldo), ‘Scherza infida’ (Ariodante) and ‘Verdi... —
