Composer: Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber, Gottfried Finger, Johann Georg Rauch, Johann Heinrich Schmelzer, Pavel Josef Vejvanovsky, Antonio Vivaldi
Performer: Bojan Čičić, The Illyria Consort
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Delphian
Catalogue: DCD34278
Release: 2022
Size: 1.26 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
Vivaldi: Concerto in G minor, RV 104 ‘La notte’
01. I. Largo
02. II. Fantasmi: Presto – Largo – Andante
03. III. Presto
04. IV. Il sonno
05. V. Allegro
Biber: Sonata ‘La Pastorella’
06. I.
07. II.
08. III.
Vejvanovsky: Sonata laetitia in C major
09. I. Allegro
10. II. Presto
Rauch: Sonata No. X ‘Pastorella’
11. I. Vivace
12. II. Adagio
13. III. Pastorella – Adagio
anon.: Minoritenkonvent Wien, No. 87, MS XIV.726 “Sonate Wie schön leuchtet die Morgenstern”
14. I. Contrapunct sopra la Baßigaylos d’Altr.
15. II.
16. III. Adagio – Allegro
17. IV.
18. anon.: Minoritenkonvent Wien, No. 68, MS XIV.726: Sonate ‘Musikalisch Uhrwerk’
Finger: Pastoralle
19. I. Adagio
20. II. Allegro – Adagio
21. III. Adagio
22. IV. Allegro – Adagio
Schmelzer: Sonata à 3 ‘La Pastorale’
23. I.
24. II. Adagio
25. III.
Vivaldi: Concerto for strings ‘Il riposo – per il Santissimo Natale’, RV 270
26. I. Allegro
27. II. Andante
28. III. Allegro
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.