Gunar Letzbor; Ars Antiqua Austria
Release Date: 25 March 2022
Label: Pan Classics
Packaging Type: Digipak
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 7619990104365
Description
Johann Heinrich Schmelzer is considered the founder of the Austrian violin school; he led violin music in Austria and in Europe to its first peak and influenced many of his younger violinist colleagues.
He started his professional career as a violinist and cornett player at the Imperial Court Chapel in Vienna. There, his compositional skills were noticed, and he was appointed Vice-Kapellmeister and finally Court Kapellmeister with a title of nobility by the Emperor.
His collection "Sonatae unarum fidium" (Sonatas for one violin), printed in Nuremberg in 1664, established his reputation as an outstanding violinist throughout Europe.
In these six sonatas for violin and basso continuo he breaks all the boundaries of what had been technically possible on the violin up to that time.
Schmelzer enriches the bowing technique by inventing new types of strokes, and he takes the left hand to the highest positions of the fingerboard of the time.
Through daring harmonic turns in the development of the cycle, he achieves profound musical expression and heart-wrenching atmospheric images, which Gunar Letzbor stages with feeling and technical maturity.
Tracklisting
Soloists, Chor und Orchester der Bayreuther Festspiele, Joseph Keilberth
The Royal Wind Music
Anita Cerquetti
Tercia Realidad; Jorge Jimenez
Thomas Sanderling, Orchester des Nationaltheaters Mannheim
Soloists; Eroica Berlin; Jakob Lehmann
Leonor de Lera; Nacho Laguna; Pablo FitzGerald
Iskrena Yordanova; Zefira Valova
Gunar Letzbor, Ars Antiqua Austria
Gunar Letzbor; Ars Antiqua Austria
Gunar Letzbor; Ars Antiqua Austria
