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.
Toyohiko Satoh
Toyohiko Satoh
The La Roche Quartet
The Gents / Peter Dijkstra
The European Community Baroque Orchestra
The Gents
Pieter Wispelwey / Brett Dean
Pieter Wispelwey
Rachel Podger; Brecon Baroque
Rachel Podger; Brecon Baroque
Rachel Podger; Brecon Baroque
