The success of several recent recordings of Heinrich Biber's Mystery Sonatas seems to have spurred the issue or reissue of other works by this wild man of the late seventeenth century German Baroque. The splendidly ambitiously titled Harmonia Artificiosa-Ariosa, a set of partitas for the trio-sonata ensemble of two solo instruments plus continuo, ...
Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber's Rosary Sonatas were written in Salzburg in the 1670s or 1680s, and they're really unlike anything else in the violin literature. Scordatura, or unconventional tuning of an instrument's strings, was common enough during the Baroque era, but Biber's cycle of 15 pieces for violin and continuo explores the technique ...
Recorded in 1987, Wynton Marsalis' brilliant Baroque Music for Trumpets is given a new lease on shelf-life in this 2005 Sony reissue. On the positive side, the label recognizes the tremendous artistic and commercial value of Marsalis' virtuosic forays into Baroque music with Raymond Leppard and the English Chamber Orchestra, and seems to ...
Written circa 1676, the "Fünfzehn Sonaten über die Mysterien des Rosenkranzes" (Fifteen Sonatas on the Mysteries of the Rosary) are religious meditations, combining secular dance forms with breathtaking, ecstatic quasi-improvisation. The violin part is brilliantly played here by Marianne Ronez, with other members of the Affetti Musicali realizing ...
Harmonia Mundi's Biber: Litaniae de Sancto Josepho, featuring Cantus Cölln and Concerto Palatino under Konrad Junghänel, is one of the finest recordings ever made of Salzburgian Baroque sacred choral music. Recorded in Melk Abbey in Austria, these combined period instrument groups pack a real wallop inside the Melk Abbey's cavernous interiors, and ...
This plunge into the steady stream of Biber releases comes from violinist Anton Steck, an alumnus of the Musica Antiqua Köln period-instrument group. Austria's Heinrich Ignaz von Biber was a brilliant, iconoclastic violinist and composer of the late seventeenth century, hardly known 25 years ago but now the recipient of attention from violinists ...
Naďve has assembled an eclectic assortment of movements from requiems or requiem-like pieces, performed by a variety of ensembles. It's not a sampler, because not all the selections are from the catalog of Naďve or its subsidiaries. It's a somewhat odd mix of pieces, ranging from the traditional Eastern Orthodox service to a 1998 piece by Pascal ...
Compositions by Austrian seventeenth century composer Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber heard on this album are not the radical virtuoso music of the Rosary Sonatas or his other works that make use of such devices as scordatura or retuning. Mensa Sonora, the title of a Biber collection excerpted here, means "the sonorous table," and these pieces by ...
Blind lutenist Matthew Wadsworth's last release was devoted to lute songs by the intriguing but not essential English composer Philip Rosseter. Here, Wadsworth gets his chance to do the grand tour of seventeenth century European lute composers (he uses a lute and a theorbo), and the results are stunning. The disc works well as an introduction to ...
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