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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.
Rachel Podger; Brecon Baroque
Camerata Oresund
Nicolas Dautricourt; Frederic Chaslin; BBC National Orchestra of Wales; Capriccio Quartet
Maria Milstein; Mathieu van Bellen
Rachel Podger; Brecon Baroque
Maria Bayley (harp & soprano); Marco Orsini-Brescia (clavichord)
Francisco Fullana, Matthias Kirschnereit
Eleanor Grant and Gus McQuade
Eva Saladin, Daniel Rosin, Johannes Keller
Vilem Vlcek, Denis Linnik
Quartetto Nous|Quartetto di Cremona
Olga Dowbusch-Lubotsky|Sophia Whitson
