Description
Title: Just Biber
Artist: Rachel Podger
Label: Channel Classics
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 723385485254
Genre: Classical Artists
Release Date: 2025-07-04
Number of Discs: 1
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 Sonatae 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.
Tracks:
1.7 Sonata No. 1 in a Major, C 138-III. Untitled
1.17 Sonata Violino Solo Representativa in a Major, C 146-II. Die Nachtigal
1.26 Sonata No. 6 in C minor, C 143-II. Passacaglia
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