Biber, Heinrich Ignaz Franz Von
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Harmonie Universelle
Anonymous , Sephardic Traditional , Cancionero de Montecassino , Clement Woodcock , Mallorcan Anonymous , Josquin Desprez , Antony Holborne , Jose Marin , Marin Marais , Nicolo Fontei , Johann Sebastian Bach , Juan Bautista Jose Cabanilles , Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber , Jean-Baptiste Lully , Jordi Savall , Montserrat Figueras , Pedro Estevan , Adela Gonzalez-Campa , Rolf Lislevand , and Ton Koopman Manufacturer: Alia Vox ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B00005AU4N Release Date: 2001-04-10 |
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Biber: The Mystery Sonatas
Manufacturer: Angel Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B00005UNXG Release Date: 2002-12-23 |
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Biber: The Rosary Sonatas
Manufacturer: Harmonia Mundi Fr. ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B0002JP5DG Release Date: 2004-10-12 |
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Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber created a lasting monument in this series of fifteen sonatas depicting the story of Jesus. The unique element in this music is the technique called scordatura, deliberate mistuning of the violin strings for unusual effects. But listeners will be more aware of the its intense nature. Biber doesn't strive for beautiful melodies most of the time; he has a dramatic story to tell, which he does with remarkably imaginative effects. For a sample, try The Ascension, which hardly sounds baroque at all. If that gets you, you'll continue to enjoy the series. There have been very good recordings of this music by Reinhard Goebel and Marianne Ronez. Manze is an excellent musician in ordinary baroque music, but he really excels in wild and crazy pieces (as on his amazing Tartini CD. His realizations of this radical set, in collaboration with the excellent keyboardist Egarr, go straight to the head of the field, and he even adds a brief demonstration of how scordatura works so you don't have to wonder any more. --Leslie Gerber
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Biber: Harmonia Artificioso - Ariosa; Tam Aris Quam Aulis Servientes
Manufacturer: Astree ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B00008PW54 Release Date: 2003-11-18 |
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"Of all the violin players of the last century Biber seems to have been the best, and his solos are the most difficult of any music I have seen of the same period." It is in these terms that the 18th century English music historian Charles Burney speaks of Heinrich Biber. This peerless violinist was just as gifted a composer, his works diffused as far afield as France and North Germany. His first opus, published by 1676, is a collection of twelve sonatas. In them, he reveals his mastery of the Italianate style then so popular in Austria, adding to the strings and basso continuo the bright sound of two trumpets. The seven partitas of his Harmonia Artificioso - Ariosa go even further in their quest for virtuosity. Among the "artifices" required of the two soloists is scordatura, a modification of the normal tuning of the strings that gives them still greater brilliance... and that Biber's distant successor Mozart was to use in his Sinfonia concertante K364.
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Biber: Missa Christi resurgentis
Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber , Johann Heinrich Schmelzer , The English Concert , Andrew Manze , and the Choir of the English Concert Manufacturer: Harmonia Mundi Fr. ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B000A1JRY4 Release Date: 2005-09-13 |
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Biber: Violin Sonatas
Manufacturer: Harmonia Mundi Fr. ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B0000665Z8 Release Date: 2002-09-10 |
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Imperial Fanfares
Manufacturer: Naxos ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B00008MLVK Release Date: 2003-07-15 |
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Masters of the Trumpet
Manufacturer: Deutsche Grammophon ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B000A2H8YY Release Date: 2005-08-09 |
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Biber: Rosary Sonatas
Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber , Susanne Lautenbacher , Johannes Koch , and Rudolf Ewerhart Manufacturer: Vox (Classical) ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B000001K5O Release Date: 1996-10-22 |
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Baroque Music for Trumpets
Manufacturer: Sony ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B00077F95W Release Date: 2005-10-18 |
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