Rachel Podger/Brecon Baroque: Just Biber

Following up her critically acclaimed recording of Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber's Rosary Sonatas (CCSSA37315), violinist and musical director Rachel Podger leads Brecon Baroque on Just Biber, an album of Sonatas from Biber's 1681 collection Sonatæ Violino Solo and his theatrical Sonata Representivo. These works are extremely virtuosic with extensive multiple stopping and dazzling passages of stylus fantasticus. In Biber’s time, harmony was something cosmic, vibrating in a God-given resonance between human, instrumental and celestial bodies. Dedicated to Archbishop Maximilian Gandolf, the sonatas were not only designed to delight, but also potentially to balm and heal; Biber described the sonatas as a kind of prayer for the Archbishop’s longevity and good health.

1: I.
2: II. Variatio - Allegro
3: III. Presto
4: IV. Aria - Variations
5: I.
6: II. Adagio
7: III.
8: IV. Variatio
9: V. Finale
10: I.
11: II. Aria
12: III. Variatio
13: IV. Adagio
14: V.
15: VI. Finale
16: Allegro
17: Die Nachtigall
18: Der Cu Cu
19: Der Fresch
20: Die Henne Und Der Hahn
21: Die Vachtel
22: Die Katz
23: Musquetier Mars
24: Allamande
25: I.
26: II. Passacaglia
27: III. - Adagio
28: IV. Gavotta
29: V. Adagio - Allegro - Adagio
30: I. Adagio - Presto
31: II. Aria - Variatio
32: III. Presto - Adagio
33: IV. Allegro
34: V. Variatio

Composer: Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber

Number of Discs: 1

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