Credits:

Foyle-Stsura Duo

Description:

Rising star of the ancient music world, Bojan Cicic's new recording of Giornovici! Rising star of the ancient music world and one of the standard-bearers of the new generation of baroque violinists, as concertmaster and core member of the Florilegium, Arcangelo, the Ancient Chamber Orchestra, and the EU Baroque Orchestra, led by Rachel Podger's Brecon Baroque, Bojan Cicic is a leading figure in the field of ancient music, The second recording with the Illyria Consort, a period ensemble he founded to explore the hidden music of the 17th and 18th centuries, is a collection of violin concertos by Giovanni Giornovici (1747-1804), one of the great masters of 18th century violin music. Born in Palermo, Italy, Giornovici is believed to be of the same Croatian descent as Bojan Cici, a musician Cici had long dreamed of performing and recording. He was active in all the major European cities of the time, including Paris, London, Vienna, Berlin, Dublin, and Stockholm, and used as many as 30 aliases (Giornovići, Jarnovići, Jarnovik, and others) in each country.Here are three concertos from his time with Haydn in London in the 1790s, as well as a variation on the aria "Julie's Villager (Rison was sleeping in the woods)" from Dosed's opera "Julie". The previous album, Giovanni Carbonelli (DCD 34194), was a great success, being named "Special Disc of the Month" by Record Art Overseas REVIEW, "Chamber Choice" by BBC Music Magazine and "2017 Recording of the Year" by Presto Classical, UK, and Cicich says, "This success reveals that there is a wide audience for newly discovered music," and there are high expectations for this world premiere recording of the entire work by Giovanni Giornovich. Tokyo M-Plus

Tracklisting:

1.Concerto No. 15 in E for violin and orchestra: Allegro vivace
2.Concerto No. 15 in E for violin and orchestra: Romance: un poco Andante
3.Concerto No. 15 in E for violin and orchestra: Grazioso Minuetto
4.Concerto No. 15 in E for violin and orchestra: Presto
5.Concerto No. 13 in A for violin and orchestra: Allegro Spirito
6.Concerto No. 13 in A for violin and orchestra: Romance: Andantino
7.Concerto No. 13 in A for violin and orchestra: Rondo
8.Air: Villageoises de Julie (theme and five variations)
9.Concerto No. 14 in A for violin and orchestra: Allegro
10.Concerto No. 14 in A for violin and orchestra: Amoroso con expressione
11.Concerto No. 14 in A for violin and orchestra: Rondeau a la russe