‘La Notte’: Concertos and Pastorales for Christmas Night
Bojan Čičić (violin), The Illyria Consort
Awards:
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Presto Recording of the Week, 25th November 2022
This joyful album brings together 17th and 18th-century music written for Christmas and its related Catholic feasts...One for every December!
‘La Notte’: Concertos and Pastorales for Christmas Night
Bojan Čičić (violin), The Illyria Consort
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Awards:
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Presto Recording of the Week, 25th November 2022
This joyful album brings together 17th and 18th-century music written for Christmas and its related Catholic feasts...One for every December!
About
Bojan Cicic 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.
Contents and tracklist
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Bojan Čičić on La Notte
5th Jan 2023
The Croatian violinist speaks to David and Katherine about his collection of 'Concertos and Pastorales for Christmas Night' with the Illyria Consort, released on Delphian in late November.
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Baroque instrumental music for Christmas from Bojan Čičić and the Illyria Consort
25th Nov 2022
Bojan Čičić and the Illyria Consort present an alternative Christmas sound-world, replacing vocal and choral music with string concertos and sonatas from around Europe.
Awards and reviews
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Presto Recording of the Week25th November 2022
Christmas 2022
This joyful album brings together 17th and 18th-century music written for Christmas and its related Catholic feasts...One for every December!
25th November 2022
Who could blame them for a bit of excitability in such exuberant music? Of course, Čičić rises triumphant over all...The whole album sparkles; it’s a veritable box of delights.
18th November 2022
Their music oozes spontaneous vitality, expressed with stylistic exuberance in the ensemble’s heartwarming performances. If we do have a winter of discontent ahead of us, here’s something to help dispel the gloom.
15th December 2022
Quirky composers (Vivaldi, Biber, Schmelzer) run riot in La Notte, a delightful album from Bojan Cicic’s spirited Illyria Consort.
16th December 2022
Quirky composers (Vivaldi, Biber, Schmelzer) run riot in La Notte, a delightful album from Bojan Cicic’s spirited Illyria Consort.
3rd December 2022
a beautifully played and thoughtfully paced album with some gorgeous half-lights in slower movements and a natural unforced joy about the whole venture.
