Release Date: 04 July 2025
Label: Channel Classics
Packaging Type: Digipak
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 723385485254
Genres: Classical Chamber Music
Composer/Series: Just Biber
Description
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.
Anna Fedorova; Orquesta Sinfonica de Castilla y Leon; Pablo Gonzalez
Nikola Meeuwsen
Ning Feng; Antony Hermus; Konzerthausorchester Berlin
Suzana Bartal; Saarlandisches Staatsorchester; Sebastien Rouland
Stuttgarter Kammerorchester; Jorg Widmann
Rowan Pierce; Florilegium; Ashley Solomon
Toshiyuki Shibata; Anthony Romaniuk
Rachel Podger; Brecon Baroque
I Solisti Ambrosiani
Gleb Pysniak; Rojas Zubovas
Giulia Taccagni; Giacomo Carnevali
Giovanni Battista Scarpa; Emma Nicol Pigato
Francesco Giannelli; Sabrina De Carlo; Jalle Feest; Elisa Astrid Pennica
Victoria String Quartet; Sophie Clarke; David Jones; John Turner; James Manson
The Levee
Quatuor Dutilleux
