LADO

O, ISUSE DAJ MI SUZE

Released by: Aquarius Records CD 426-12

Released in: 2012, Krunoslav Šokac i Dražen Kurilovčan

PRI KUMOVOJ KLETI (At My Kum’s Vineyard Hut)

Released by: Aquarius Records CD 385-11

Released in: 2011, Božo Potočnik

This selection contains songs whose melodies have been forgotten so they do not exist in notations or in memory. Some verses in the Križevci tradition have remained and been put to music with great respect by Božo Potočnik, wishing to reconnect the broken threads of tradition in this traditional music type that has not been paid enough attention. The author's intention has been to make the songs acceptable to new generations singing of the age-long joys of life. The compositions are stylistically based on the heritage of the broad Kajkavian dialect region, while some of them have already been confirmed in practice.

VOKALISTI LADA - KRIŽU SVETI... (The LADO Vocalists – Oh, Holy Cross...)

Released by: Aquarius Records CD 365-11

Released in: 2011

LADO Vocalists is the name of the vocal ensemble in which the singer/dancers of the LADO Ensemble perform in a representative manner the vocal music tradition of the southern Croatian regions. This first independent recording has been conceived as a stroll through the most interesting part of the ecclesiastical year: Christmas tunes and carols, Marian melodies, and Lenten and Easter melodies. The songs presented in the Vocalists' performances have been awarded numerous prestigious music prizes (the Porin, Orlando, Varaždin Baroque Evenings. . .).

GLAZBENI SPOMENAR ANE KELIN (Ana Kelin's Musical Autograph Book)

Released by: Aquarius Records CD 342-10

Released in: 2010

The songs that Ana Kelin sang in her long and unique career were diverse; some cheerful and merry, some sad and mournful. They came from diverse areas of Croatia and mirrored the destinies and states of mind of anonymous people from Međimurje, Dalmatia and the Littoral, Prigorje and Croatian Zagorje, Podravina, Lika, Pokuplje, Austrian Burgenland. . . She sang them and independently recorded them to the accompaniment of the musicians of the LADO Ensemble and/or with the Ladarice female singers, and of the mandolin ensemble and/or the Tambura Orchestra of Croatian Television.

BOŽIĆNI KONCERT (2010) (Christmas Concert (2010))

Released by: Aquarius Records CD 341-10

Released in: 2010, Awarded 3 Porin Prizes

This CD was recorded live at the LADO Ensemble’s Christmas Concert given at Croatian Television’s Bajsić Studio on December 18, 2009, the result of many years of fruitful co-operation between the Croatian Radio Music Programme and LADO. The concert marked 20 years of LADO’s Christmas Concerts and 60 years of LADO’s overall activities. The programme is a stroll of sorts through the various Croatian regions and a selection of Christmas works by numerous Croatian authors who have collaborated with the Ensemble over the last 20 years.

JANJA IVANČAN - NIZ MURU I DRAVU (Janja Ivančan – Down the Mura and Drava Rivers)

Released by: Aquarius Records CD 239-09

Released in: 2009, Marijan Makar

Traditional Love Songs

Janja Ivančan has been a member of the Ensemble since 1976 and is a long-term LADO soloist. In the gallery of the Ensemble’s brilliant soloists, following the Anđela Potočnik era, Janja Ivančan definitely occupies a special place, both with the number of her solo performances and the range of her field, and the personages and characters that her mobile and lyrical and also penetrating voice have interpreted, as the case has needed. It is that very adaptability of her voice, which she has altered according to the requirements of the expression that she was interpreting, which have been her main asset.

TETA LIZA I LADO (Aunt Liza and LADO)

Released by: Aquarius Records CD 174-07

Released in: 2007, Awarded 3 Porin prizes

Aunt Liza or Elizabeta Toplak is an authentic folk artist – a singer from Donja Dubrava (Međimurje). The adaptation for the LADO Ensemble Orchestra was done by the orchestra leader, Alan Kanski.

Recorded in collaboration with Croatian Radio-Television – the Croatian Radio Music Programme

POLKE I DRMEŠI (Polka and Drmeš Dances)

Released by: Aquarius Records CD 171-07

Released in: 2007

The Polka and Drmeš Dances album presents two of the most popular dances of north-western Croatian, represented in numerous choreographies in the LADO repertoire, heard here in instrumental performance by the LADO Ensemble Orchestra.

Recorded in collaboration with Croatian Radio-Television – the Croatian Radio Music Programme

KALVARIJA (Calvary)

Released by: Aquarius Records CD 114-06

Released in: 2006, Ljubo Stipišić, Awarded 2 Porin prizes

In homage to the author Ljubo Stipišić, winner of the Porin Life Achievement Music Award, the LADO Ensemble has re-recorded and re-released this album. As we have been collaborating with the conductor and ethnomusicologist, Joško Ćaleta, for many years, CALVARY has undergone certain changes in the music sense. J. Ćaleta has brought this work closer to the authentic sound of the traditional singers of the Central Dalmatian islands.

IZ HRVATSKE NARODNE GLAZBENE RIZNICE VOL.2 (From the Croatian Traditional Music Treasure Trove Vol. 2)

Released by: Aquarius Records CD 88-05

Released in: 2005

Joško Ćaleta, Dražen Kurilovčan, Marijan Makar, Božo Potočnik, Bojan Pogrmilović

The album contains 25 music numbers by which we have encompassed the entire region of Croatia from Southern Dalmatia to Međimurje and Slavonia.

BOŽIĆ U SVIJETU (Christmas throughout the World)

Released by: Aquarius Records CD 49-04

Released in: 2004, Dražen Kurilovčan, Awarded 2 Porin prizes

The album contains 18 Christmas songs from The International Book of Christmas Carols, Prentice-Hall, 1963, which the composer Tomislav Uhlik arranged for the LADO Ensemble. Some of these songs were first performed by LADO at the December 22, 1991 concert in Zagreb Cathedral and are now regularly performed at our Christmas concerts.

ZORJA MOJA ZORJA - ANĐELA POTOČNIK (Oh Dawn, My Dawn)

Released by: Aquarius Records CD 34-04

Released in: 2004, Anđela Potočnik

This double CD presents a selection from Anđela Potočnik recordings, made in collaboration between the LADO Ensemble, Croatian Radio Music Production and Croatian Radio-Television.

LADO ELECTRO

Released by: Aquarius Records CD 27-03

Released in: 2003

PREVELIKU RADOST NAVIŠĆUJEM VAMA (I Bring Tidings of Great Joy)

Released by: Aquarius Records CD 18-03

Released in: 2003, Joško Ćaleta, Awarded 3 Porin prizes

Christmas Songs and Carols from Dalmatia

Christmas songs and carols from the Zadar area, Bol on the Island of Brač, Vinišće near Trogir, Stari Grad on the Island of Hvar, and Murter on the Island of Murter. This album is the product of many years of collaboration with the conductor, arranger and musicologist, Joško Ćaleta.

RASPELO (Crucifix)

Released by: Lado CD003

Released in: 2002, Dražen Kurilovčan, A Porin Award Winner

Lenten Songs from Kajkavian Dialect Areas

The album contains 9 Lenten songs from Podravina (Gotalovo), Međimurje, Turopolje and the surroundings of Zagreb. It is the product of collaboration with the actor and director, Vid Balog, first conceived as a stage show, and later as a CD.

Recorded in the Church of St Katherine in Zagreb in collaboration with the Croatian Radio Music Programme.

NA ZELENOM TRAVNIKI (On the Green Grass)

Released by: Lado CD002

Released in: 2001, Božo Potočnik, Awarded 2 Porin prizes

The album was recorded in 2002. It contains 16 jačka folk songs from Burgenland, an area spreading over the territory of three countries: Austria, Hungary and Slovakia.

U DRUŠTVU SVIRAČA VOL.2 (In the Company of the Musicians Vol. 2)

Released by: Lado CD002

Released in: 2001

NAJLJEPŠE BOŽIĆNE PJESME (Loveliest Christmas Songs)

Released by: BeSTMUSIC CD 1050

Released in: 2001, Branko Starc

The album was recorded in the Church of St Katherine in Zagreb. Mario Penzar is at the organ while the arrangements were done by Branko Starc.

U DRUŠTVU SVIRAČA VOL.1 (In the Company of the Musicians Vol. 1)

Released by: BeSTMUSIC CD 6037

Released in: 2000, Marijan Makar i Božo Potočnik

On June 30, 1999 the LADO Ensemble Orchestra gave its first independent concert. This album was compiled on the basis of that concert

Recorded in collaboration between the LADO Ensemble and the Croatian Radio Music Programme

O VREME PRELUBLENO (Oh, Most Beloved of Times)

Released by: BeSTMUSIC CD 6032

Released in: 1999, Marijan Makar

A Traditional Christmas Oratory

Oh, Most Beloved of Times is a traditional Christmas oratory for soloists, choir and orchestra (based on Vinko Žganec’s collection CROATIAN TRADITIONAL SONGS FROM MEĐIMURJE) by the author Marijan Makar, written for the LADO Ensemble

NA MORU I KRAJU (Out at Sea and on Land)

Released by: BeSTMUSIC CD 6029

Released in: 2000, Marijan Makar, Dražen Kurilovčan

Sounds from the Adriatic islands, the Coast and the Hinterland

This album contains songs and dances from the Adriatic islands, the coast and hinterland from Istria to Boka Kotorska.

Recorded in collaboration between the LADO Ensemble and the Croatian Radio Music Programme

IZ HRVATSKE NARODNE GLAZBENE RIZNICE VOL.1 (From the Croatian Traditional Music Treasure Trove Vol. 1)

Released by: Memphis

Released in: 1998, Božo Potočnik, Siniša Leopold, Dražen Kurilovčan

Our wish with this album was to encompass in music all the regions where ethnic Croatians live - from Prigorje, Zagorje, Međimurje, Podravina, to Slavonia, Baranja and Bačka, from Boka Kotorska, Herzegovina, Central Bosnia, Dalmatia, the Littoral and Istria.

KOLO IGRA, TAMBURICA SVIRA VOL.2 (As the Kolo Is Danced, the Tamburitza Plays Vol. 2)

Released by: BeSTMUSIC CD 6028

Released in: 1999, Božo Potočnik, Siniša Leopold, Dražen Kurilovčan

This album carries on from Kolo igra, tamburica svira 1.

Recorded in collaboration between the LADO Ensemble and the Croatian Radio Music Programme.

KOLO IGRA, TAMBURICA SVIRA VOL.1 (As the Kolo Is Danced, the Tamburitza Plays Vol. 1)

Released by: BeSTMUSIC CD 6027

Released in: 1999, Božo Potočnik, Siniša Leopold, Dražen Kurilovčan

Vocal, instrumental and vocal-instrumental music numbers from Slavonia, Baranja and Bačka. Along with the sounds of the choir and the orchestra, one can hear the numerous traditional instruments upon which the musicians of the LADO Ensemble play.

Recorded in collaboration between the LADO Ensemble and the Croatian Radio Music Programme.

IZ KAJKAVSKIH KRAJEVA VOL. 2 (From the Kajkavian Areas Vol. 2)

Released by: BeSTMUSIC CD 6011

Released in: 1998

Traditional Songs and Dances from North-western Croatia..

The album was recorded in 1998. It contains 28 vocal, vocal-instrumental and instrumental music numbers.

IZ KAJKAVSKIH KRAJEVA VOL. 1 (From the Kajkavian Areas Vol. 1)

Released by: BeSTMUSIC CD 6018

Released in: 1998

Traditional Songs and Dances from North-western Croatia..

The album was recorded in 1998. It contains 23 vocal, vocal-instrumental and instrumental music numbers.

KALVARIJA (Calvary)

Released by: BeSTMUSIC CD 602

Released in: 1994, Bojan Pogrmilović

An Oratory Based on Croatian Traditional Church Singing.

An oratory for solos, a male choir, a female choir and a mixed choir, based on Croatian traditional church singing, author Ljubo Stipišić.

TELO KRISTUŠEVO, NARODI SE MLADI KRALJ (The Body of Christ; the Young King Is Born)

Released by: BeSTMUSIC CD 601

Released in: 1994, Tomislav Uhlik

A liturgical cantata for folklore choir and tamburas; a Christmas mystery play for solo, folklore choir and orchestra.

Two music works by Tomislav Uhlik can be heard on this album:

The Body of Christ (a liturgical cantata for folklore choir and tamburas), and,

The Young King Is Born (a Christmas mystery play for solos, folklore choir and orchestra).