Orpheus' Lute. Improvisation and Wonder in Humanist Italy Bor Zuljan & Mónica Pustilnik

• Bor Zuljan (b. 1969): Ricercare (I):
• 1 Zuljan: Ricercare (I) 01:34
• Ottava rima “Tu santa madre”:
• 2 Zuljan: Ottava rima “Tu santa madre” 01:43
• Joan Ambrosio Dalza (unknown - 1508): Calata alla spagnola:
• 3 Dalza: Calata alla spagnola 02:15
• Calata alla spagnola ditto Terzetti:
• 4 Dalza: Calata alla spagnola ditto Terzetti 01:59
• Bor Zuljan: Ricercare (II):
• 5 Zuljan: Ricercare (II) 02:31
• Johannes Ockeghem (unknown - 1497): Malor me bat:
• 6 Ockeghem: Malor me bat 02:55
• Bor Zuljan: Bassadanza:
• 7 Zuljan: Bassadanza 02:28
• Ricercare (III):
• 8 Zuljan: Ricercare (III) 01:22
• Vincenzo Capirola (1474 - 1548): Stavasi Amor dormendo:
• 9 Capirola: Stavasi Amor dormendo 04:11
• Marco Dall'Aquila (1480 - 1544): La traditora:
• 10 Dall'Aquila: La traditora 02:28
• Bor Zuljan: Ricercare:
• 11 Zuljan: Ricercare 02:20
• La Cara Cossa:
• 12 Zuljan: La Cara Cossa 03:07
• Piva:
• 13 Zuljan: Piva 01:58
• Ricercare (IV):
• 14 Zuljan: Ricercare (IV) 02:02
• Bartolomeo Tromboncino (1470 - 1535): Zephyro Spira:
• 15 Tromboncino: Zephyro Spira 02:59
• Bor Zuljan: Ricercar dietro:
• 16 Zuljan: Ricercar dietro 00:49
• Francesco Canova da Milano (1497 - 1543): Ricercare, Fantasia a dui liutti:
• 17 Milano: Ricercare, Fantasia a dui liutti 03:02
• Bor Zuljan: Ricercare (V):
• 18 Zuljan: Ricercare (V) 00:52
• Antoine Busnois (1430 - 1492): Fortuna desperata:
• 19 Busnois: Fortuna desperata 02:12
• Vincenzo Capirola: Pavana descordata:
• 20 Capirola: Pavana descordata 02:19
• Che faralla, che diralla:
• 21 Capirola: Che faralla, che diralla 03:50
• Bor Zuljan: Ricercare (VI):
• 22 Zuljan: Ricercare (VI) 01:18
• Giovanni Maria da Crema (1492 - 1550): Passamezzo alla Bolognese:
• 23 Crema: Passamezzo alla Bolognese 01:42
• Saltarello alla Bolognese:
• 24 Crema: Saltarello alla Bolognese 01:29
• Bartolomeo Tromboncino: Su, su, leva, alza le ciglia:
• 25 Tromboncino: Su, su, leva, alza le ciglia 04:39
• Joan Ambrosio Dalza: Piva:
• 26 Dalza: Piva 01:56
• Bor Zuljan: Il buon nocchier & Ricercare dietro:
• 27 Zuljan: Il buon nocchier & Ricercare dietro 01:30
• Total Runtime 01:01:30

Info for Orpheus' Lute. Improvisation and Wonder in Humanist Italy

Die Laute wurde um 1500, der Zeit ihrer größten kulturellen und geistigen Bedeutung, zum bevorzugten Instrument an den europäischen Höfen. Die Humanisten deuteten die Laute als die Leier des Orpheus, da sie das metaphysische Ideal der Kraft der Musik verkörperte und außerdem eng mit der Improvisation verbunden war. Auf diesem Album wurde diese Tradition wiederbelebt. So entstand ein Programm, das fast vollständig improvisiert wurde. Es präsentiert die Renaissance-Laute mit all ihren überraschenden Farben und Klangfarben als immer noch quicklebendiges Instrument.

Bor Zuljan, Laute, Gesang
Monica Pustilnik, Viola da Mano

Bor Zuljan
is active in different musical genres playing many kinds of lutes and guitars, vihuelas, oud, tar and other early and traditional plucked-strings instruments. Recently he's been specializing particularly in the music of the Renaissance, rediscovering forgotten improvisation and playing techniques, instruments and sounds.

He is performing regularly as soloist and with ensembles, such as Tasto Solo, Graindelavoix, Le Concert Brisé, Slovenian Philharmonic Orchestra, in duo with Dusan Bogdanovic, with Rolf Lislevand, with Romain Bockler (Dulces Exuviae) as well as with his ensemble La Lyra. His projects have been presented in festivals such as the Laus Polyphoniae in Antwerpen, Oude Muziek in Utrecht, Festival Radovljica in Slovenia and many others. He also performed in the USA, in China, Algeria, Germany, France, Italy, Switzerland, Spain, Denmark, Romania and in Croatia and recorded award-winning CDs for several labels (Ricercar, Arcana, ...).

From 2011, he is the artistic director of an early music festival Flores Musicae in Slovenia. His critical edition of Gorzanis' Second lute book has been published by the Slovenian Musicological Society, resulting also in an awarded CD "La barca del mio amore" with music by the same composer, featuring La Lyra and the italian singer Pino De Vittorio (Arcana - Outhere Music). His second CD "Josquin - Adieu mes amours" with the duo Dulces Exuviae has recently appeared under Ricercar (Outhere Music) to great critical acclaim.

After graduating in jazz and classical programmes at the Ljubljana Conservatory of Music, he continued his studies with Aniello Desiderio in Koblenz, Germany. In 2007 he started studying at the Haute Ecole de Musique de Genève where he then obtained a Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in Guitar and Lute performance (Dusan Bogdanovic), continued with a specialization in Medieval music and finished a MA in lute pedagogy. Since 2011 he has been working as research assistant at the same school on a project on Fantasia improvisation on lute in the 16th Century, a topic he is developing for his doctoral thesis at the CESR in Tours.

He teaches lute at the Conservatoire Populaire de Musique, Danse et Théâtre de Genève, and has given numerous conferences and master classes at institutions, such as the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis, Fondazione Giorgio Cini in Venice, Haute Ecole de Musique de Genève, CNSMD Lyon, Escuela Superior de Musica de Mexico, and the Ljubljana Academy of Music.

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