La Notte': Concertos & Pastorales for Christmas Night - Delphian

€ 7.50 · 5 (633) · In Magazzino

SUMMARY TRACK LISTING REVIEWS INFO 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. Bojan Čičić and his band make their case for an [instrumental-only] Christmas album very persuasively indeed Čičić’s solo playing sparkles atop the texture. the closing movement of Johann Georg Rauch’s sonata for three violins is unhurried