The Marian Consort, The Illyria Consort, Rory McCleery - Adriatic Voyage: Seventeenth-Century Music from Venice to Dalmatia (2021) [Hi-Res]

Tracklist

01. Ave Maria a 6 voci
02. Sonata a 4
03. En dilectus meus
04. Donna ingrata
05. Bone Jesu
06. Ricercar 3
07. Exultate Deo
08. Ave Maria
09. I superbi colossi
10. Panis angelicus
11. Quam pulchra es
12. Sicut cedrus
13. Surge propera
14. Sonata 6
15. Sonata 7
16. Sonata 8
17. Al vivo sol
18. Battaglia per sonar e cantar a 8



In March 1575, a party led by the Venetian diplomat Giacomo Soranzo set out on a mission to Constantinople. They sailed down the Istrian coast, along the length of present-day Croatia, and on to the Bay of Kotor. Much of the land they passed was the territory of the Serenissima – inhabited by both Italians and Slavs, and of strategic importance since it was exposed to constant Turkish threats from the Balkan hinterland.

Two of Delphian’s most admired ensembles join forces for this imaginative programme of sacred and secular music by composers working along the Dalmatian coast in the decades after Soranzo’s expedition. It was a time in which constant movement of people and trade of goods created linguistic and cultural cross-currents, in contrast to the sharp distinctions encouraged in later centuries by the emergence of modern nation states. Much of this music would have been regarded as Venetian, but the journey points up intriguing differences between the composers and pieces presented, many of them in premiere recordings, while violinist and director Bojan Čičić’s interactions with cornettist Gawain Glenton – and the rich ornamentation contributed by all the musicians here – bring the period back to vivid, unforgettable life.

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