Johann Jakob Walther: Scherzi da violino solo Bojan Čičić & The Illyria Consort

• Johann Jakob Walther (1650 - 1717): Scherzi da Violino Solo, No. 1:
• 1 Walther: Scherzi da Violino Solo, No. 1: Suite in A Major: I. Allemanda 09:09
• 2 Walther: Scherzi da Violino Solo, No. 1: Suite in A Major: II. Corrente 01:17
• 3 Walther: Scherzi da Violino Solo, No. 1: Suite in A Major: III Sarabanda 01:27
• 4 Walther: Scherzi da Violino Solo, No. 1: Suite in A Major: IV. Giga 01:13
• Scherzi da Violino Solo, No. 2:
• 5 Walther: Scherzi da Violino Solo, No. 2: Sonata in C Major: I. [Adagio I] 01:12
• 6 Walther: Scherzi da Violino Solo, No. 2: Sonata in C Major: II. Presto 00:11
• 7 Walther: Scherzi da Violino Solo, No. 2: Sonata in C Major: III. Lento 00:42
• 8 Walther: Scherzi da Violino Solo, No. 2: Sonata in C Major: IV. Allegro I 01:04
• 9 Walther: Scherzi da Violino Solo, No. 2: Sonata in C Major: V. [Adagio II] 00:45
• 10 Walther: Scherzi da Violino Solo, No. 2: Sonata in C Major: VI. [Adagio II] 01:31
• 11 Walther: Scherzi da Violino Solo, No. 2: Sonata in C Major: VII. Adagio III 01:38
• 12 Walther: Scherzi da Violino Solo, No. 2: Sonata in C Major: VIII. Adagio III 01:01
• Scherzi da Violino Solo, No. 3:
• 13 Walther: Scherzi da Violino Solo, No. 3: Sonata in D Major: I. Allegro & forte 00:38
• 14 Walther: Scherzi da Violino Solo, No. 3: Sonata in D Major: II. Adagio - Presto - Adagio 01:53
• 15 Walther: Scherzi da Violino Solo, No. 3: Sonata in D Major: III. Lento 00:38
• 16 Walther: Scherzi da Violino Solo, No. 3: Sonata in D Major: IV. [Allegro I] 00:36
• 17 Walther: Scherzi da Violino Solo, No. 3: Sonata in D Major: V. Adagio I 01:35
• 18 Walther: Scherzi da Violino Solo, No. 3: Sonata in D Major: VI. [Allegro II] 01:08
• 19 Walther: Scherzi da Violino Solo, No. 3: Sonata in D Major: VII. [Adagio II] 01:04
• 20 Walther: Scherzi da Violino Solo, No. 3: Sonata in D Major: VIII. Largo 01:44
• 21 Walther: Scherzi da Violino Solo, No. 3: Sonata in D Major: IX. [Adagio III] 01:32
• Scherzi da Violino Solo, No. 4:
• 22 Walther: Scherzi da Violino Solo, No. 4: Sonata in G Major: I. [Adagio - Allegro] 01:23
• 23 Walther: Scherzi da Violino Solo, No. 4: Sonata in G Major: II. [Allegro I] 00:24
• 24 Walther: Scherzi da Violino Solo, No. 4: Sonata in G Major: III. [Adagio I] 00:36
• 25 Walther: Scherzi da Violino Solo, No. 4: Sonata in G Major: IV. [Allegro II] 01:19
• 26 Walther: Scherzi da Violino Solo, No. 4: Sonata in G Major: V. [Adagio II] 01:13
• 27 Walther: Scherzi da Violino Solo, No. 4: Sonata in G Major: VI. [Allegro III] 01:07
• Scherzi da Violino Solo, No. 5:
• 28 Walther: Scherzi da Violino Solo, No. 5: Aria in E Minor: I. Aria Malincon[ico] 01:28
• 29 Walther: Scherzi da Violino Solo, No. 5: Aria in E Minor: II. Presto - Tremolo 01:14
• 30 Walther: Scherzi da Violino Solo, No. 5: Aria in E Minor: III. [Allegro I] 01:09
• 31 Walther: Scherzi da Violino Solo, No. 5: Aria in E Minor: IV. Adagio 01:25
• 32 Walther: Scherzi da Violino Solo, No. 5: Aria in E Minor: V. [Allegro II] 00:49
• Scherzi da Violino Solo, No. 6:
• 33 Walther: Scherzi da Violino Solo, No. 6: Sonata in B-Flat Major: I. Adagio 02:04
• 34 Walther: Scherzi da Violino Solo, No. 6: Sonata in B-Flat Major: II. Presto 00:32
• 35 Walther: Scherzi da Violino Solo, No. 6: Sonata in B-Flat Major: III. [Andante - Staccato] 01:52
• 36 Walther: Scherzi da Violino Solo, No. 6: Sonata in B-Flat Major: IV. [Allegro] 00:49
• 37 Walther: Scherzi da Violino Solo, No. 6: Sonata in B-Flat Major: V. [Aria] 01:19
• Scherzi da Violino Solo, No. 7:
• 38 Walther: Scherzi da Violino Solo, No. 7: Sonata in A Major: I. [Grave - Presto] 01:28
• 39 Walther: Scherzi da Violino Solo, No. 7: Sonata in A Major: II. Adagio I 01:12
• 40 Walther: Scherzi da Violino Solo, No. 7: Sonata in A Major: III. [Andante I] 01:00
• 41 Walther: Scherzi da Violino Solo, No. 7: Sonata in A Major: IV. [Andante II] 01:33
• 42 Walther: Scherzi da Violino Solo, No. 7: Sonata in A Major: V. Adagio & Presto 01:47
• 43 Walther: Scherzi da Violino Solo, No. 7: Sonata in A Major: VI. Lento 00:26
• 44 Walther: Scherzi da Violino Solo, No. 7: Sonata in A Major: VII. Adagio II 01:23
• Scherzi da Violino Solo, No. 8:
• 45 Walther: Scherzi da Violino Solo, No. 8: Sonata in C Major: I. [Introduzione] 01:26
• 46 Walther: Scherzi da Violino Solo, No. 8: Sonata in C Major: II. Adagio & Presto 02:18
• 47 Walther: Scherzi da Violino Solo, No. 8: Sonata in C Major: III. [Allegro I] 01:29
• 48 Walther: Scherzi da Violino Solo, No. 8: Sonata in C Major: IV. Ondeggiando 00:25
• 49 Walther: Scherzi da Violino Solo, No. 8: Sonata in C Major: V. Arpeggiando con arcate sciolte 01:01
• 50 Walther: Scherzi da Violino Solo, No. 8: Sonata in C Major: VI. Allegro II 00:54
• 51 Walther: Scherzi da Violino Solo, No. 8: Sonata in C Major: VII. Adagio - Prestissimo 01:03
• Scherzi da Violino Solo, No. 9:
• 52 Walther: Scherzi da Violino Solo, No. 9: Sonata in D Major: I. [Adagio] 02:46
• 53 Walther: Scherzi da Violino Solo, No. 9: Sonata in D Major: II. [Andante] 01:32
• 54 Walther: Scherzi da Violino Solo, No. 9: Sonata in D Major: III. [Adagio - Allegro - Adagio] 02:16
• 55 Walther: Scherzi da Violino Solo, No. 9: Sonata in D Major: IV. [Allegro] 01:34
• Scherzi da Violino Solo, No. 10:
• 56 Walther: Scherzi da Violino Solo, No. 10: Imitatione del cuccu: I. [Adagio] - Allegro 01:22
• 57 Walther: Scherzi da Violino Solo, No. 10: Imitatione del cuccu: II. Adagio - Cuccu 01:06
• 58 Walther: Scherzi da Violino Solo, No. 10: Imitatione del cuccu: III. Adagio - Presto 00:56
• 59 Walther: Scherzi da Violino Solo, No. 10: Imitatione del cuccu: IV. [Andante] - Cuccu 00:24
• 60 Walther: Scherzi da Violino Solo, No. 10: Imitatione del cuccu: V. Cuccu 00:32
• 61 Walther: Scherzi da Violino Solo, No. 10: Imitatione del cuccu: VI. Adagio I 01:42
• 62 Walther: Scherzi da Violino Solo, No. 10: Imitatione del cuccu: VII. Largo - Cuccu 00:56
• 63 Walther: Scherzi da Violino Solo, No. 10: Imitatione del cuccu: VIII. Adagio II 01:01
• Scherzi da Violino Solo, No. 11:
• 64 Walther: Scherzi da Violino Solo, No. 11: Sonata in B-Flat Major: I. [Andante] 01:35
• 65 Walther: Scherzi da Violino Solo, No. 11: Sonata in B-Flat Major: II. [Adagio - Presto] 01:47
• 66 Walther: Scherzi da Violino Solo, No. 11: Sonata in B-Flat Major: III. Staccaro [Allegro] 00:48
• 67 Walther: Scherzi da Violino Solo, No. 11: Sonata in B-Flat Major: IV. Lento 00:58
• 68 Walther: Scherzi da Violino Solo, No. 11: Sonata in B-Flat Major: V. Largo 01:39
• 69 Walther: Scherzi da Violino Solo, No. 11: Sonata in B-Flat Major: VI. Adagissimo 00:40
• 70 Walther: Scherzi da Violino Solo, No. 11: Sonata in B-Flat Major: VII. [Finale] 00:57
• Scherzi da Violino Solo, No. 12:
• 71 Walther: Scherzi da Violino Solo, No. 12: Aria in E Minor: I. Aria: Adagio 00:58
• 72 Walther: Scherzi da Violino Solo, No. 12: Aria in E Minor: II. Presto 00:59
• 73 Walther: Scherzi da Violino Solo, No. 12: Aria in E Minor: III. Allegro I 01:01
• 74 Walther: Scherzi da Violino Solo, No. 12: Aria in E Minor: IV. Adagio 00:52
• 75 Walther: Scherzi da Violino Solo, No. 12: Aria in E Minor: V. A gusto 00:50
• 76 Walther: Scherzi da Violino Solo, No. 12: Aria in E Minor: VI. Allegro II 00:31
• 77 Walther: Scherzi da Violino Solo, No. 12: Aria in E Minor: VII. Arpeggiata: legato 00:43
• 78 Walther: Scherzi da Violino Solo, No. 12: Aria in E Minor: VIII. Affetuoso 00:39
• 79 Walther: Scherzi da Violino Solo, No. 12: Aria in E Minor: IX. Allegro III 00:57
• Total Runtime 01:40:07

Info for Johann Jakob Walther: Scherzi da violino solo

Johann Jakob Walther was one of the most significant violinists in Germany in the generation before J.S. Bach, and Bojan Čičić believes his music should be essential listening for anyone seeking a fuller understanding of Bach’s polyphonic writing for the instrument.

Having built their reputation with a series of Delphian recordings focussing on ‘missing link’ composers, Čičić and his Illyria Consort are passionate about bringing Walther’s collection of Scherzi da violino to the wider audience it deserves.

This first complete recording displays the sheer ambition of Walther’s opus, with highlights including his demonstration of the violin’s polyphonic potential in the D major sonata (No. III); the joyful playfulness of the end of No. IV; the inventiveness of the Imitatione del cuccu; and – Bojan Čičić’s personal favourite – the dramatic melancholy of the final Aria in E minor.

"Čičić makes light work of Walther’s virtuosic gauntlet, audaciously secure in the triple and quadruple stopping that punctuates passages drawing on elaborate bowing and left-hand techniques…[his] clean, clearly-articulated playing reveals a composer who has languished in the shadow of Biber and Schmelzer for too long." (BBC Music Magazine)

"Čičić has mastered the illusion of musician as conduit. The music just seems to pour out of him, and his playing conveys that he has to do very little to make it work so well. Yet Čičić is doing plenty. His excellent and always stylish ornamentation is the most obvious evidence of this." (Gramophone Magazine)

Bojan Čičić, violin
The Illyria Consort

Bojan Čičić & Illyria Consort
founded The Illyria Consort to explore rare repertoire of the 17th and 18th centuries from the Venetian Republic and the Habsburg Empire. The group has recently appeared at the Korkyra Baroque Festival and the Antwerp Laus Polyphoniae Festival with a programme of 16th and 17th-century Adriatic music, and has also toured Holland and Belgium extensively, performing baroque music from Vienna and Venice.

In 2014, The Illyria Consort presented "Treasures of the Monastery" at the Utrecht Early Music Festival, performing violin sonatas kept in manuscript form in the library of the Minorite monastery in Vienna and in 2015, the group traveled to Ghent to present a programme entitled "Sounds of Imperial Vienna" and performed Vivaldi: L'Estro Armonico at the Festival de Sablé.

The Illyria Consort’s debut recording of Giovanni Stefano Carbonelli’s Sonate da camera Nos. 1-6 achieved great critical acclaim and was chosen as one of Presto Classical’s “Presto Recordings of the Year” for 2017. The second volume, Sonatas 7-12, will be released later in 2019, but before this, they look forward to the release of their second disc in March 2019, a world première recording of Giovanni Giornovich’s London Violin Concertos.

Bojan Čičić
Known for his intelligent and virtuosic playing on both the violin and viola d'amore, Bojan Cicic specialises in repertoire ranging from the late 16th century to the Romantic period.

He has been a guest leader and soloist with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and the Budapest Festival Orchestra and appears regularly as a leader and director with the Academy of Ancient Music and the European Union Baroque Orchestra.

He has featured as a leader on numerous recordings with ensemble Florilegium, La Nuova Musica, and the Arcangelo Consort. His recording of J.S. Bach’s Concerto for two violins with Rachel Podger was recently named the best available recording by BBC Music Magazine.

Bojan formed his own group, the Illyria Consort, to explore rare repertoire of the 17th and 18th centuries from the Venetian Republic and Habsburg Empire. They have performed at the Utrecht Early Music Festival, the Korkyra Baroque Festival, Festival Laus Polyphoniae, and at the Festival de Sablé. The Illyria Consort’s debut recording of Giovanni Stefano Carbonelli’s Sonate da camera Nos. 1-6 achieved great critical acclaim and was chosen as one of Presto Classical’s “Presto Recordings of the Year” for 2017. The second volume, Sonatas 7-12, will be released later in 2019, but before this, Bojan will be the soloist in Illyria Consort’s second release in March 2019, a world première recording of Giovanni Giornovich’s London Violin Concertos.

In 2016 Bojan was appointed Professor of Baroque Violin at the Royal College of Music, and is passionate about training the next generation of instrumentalists in historically-informed playing styles. In April 2018 he was appointed the leader of the Academy of Ancient Music.

Bojan plays a violin by Francesco Ruggieri from the 1680's, kindly loaned to him by the Jumpstart Junior Foundation.

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