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Konrad Junghänel, Cantus Cölln, Concerto Palatino - Biber: Litaniæ de Sancto Josepho; Muffat: Missa in labore requies (1999)

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Konrad Junghänel, Cantus Cölln, Concerto Palatino - Biber: Litaniæ de Sancto Josepho; Muffat: Missa in labore requies (1999)

Konrad Junghänel, Cantus Cölln, Concerto Palatino - Biber: Litaniæ de Sancto Josepho; Muffat: Missa in labore requies (1999)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 316 Mb | Total time: 69:27 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Harmonia Mundi | # HMC 901667 | Recorded: 1998

The 17th-century Austrian composer Heinrich Biber is remembered today for his extraordinary solo violin music–collections such as the Mystery Sonatas. He wrote a number of large-scale instrumental works and choral pieces as well, but their reputation is not as high. They include a lot of grand gestures for brass, but they tend to be harmonically static and often seem long-winded. So Konrad Junghänel and his superb musicians have really achieved something by making the works on this disc sound so appealing.

Nadja Zwiener, Johannes Lang - 1723: Bach, Bertali, Biber, Corelli, Pisendel (2023)

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Nadja Zwiener, Johannes Lang - 1723: Bach, Bertali, Biber, Corelli, Pisendel (2023)

Nadja Zwiener, Johannes Lang - 1723: Bach, Bertali, Biber, Corelli, Pisendel (2023)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 400 Mb | Total time: 73:28 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Ramée | # RAM 2202 | Recorded: 2022

Johann Sebastian Bach, the newly appointed Cantor of the Thomaskirche, undertook his first official journey from Leipzig to nearby Störmthal in 1723, where he and his Thomanerchor inaugurated the beautiful new organ built by Zacharias Hildebrandt, a pupil of Silbermann. Bach was thrilled by the instrument’s splendid timbres and tonal beauty. A particularly beautiful violin was made by the German luthier David Tecchler in Rome — 1400 km from Störmthal — during that same year. Both instruments have survived and have been excellently restored; now, three hundred years after their creation, they meet for the first time.

Petri Tapio Mattson, Markku Mäkinen, Eero Palviainen - A Virtuoso faceoff: Biber & Muffat - Violin Sonatas (2010)

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Petri Tapio Mattson, Markku Mäkinen, Eero Palviainen - A Virtuoso faceoff: Biber & Muffat - Violin Sonatas (2010)

Petri Tapio Mattson, Markku Mäkinen, Eero Palviainen - A Virtuoso faceoff: Biber & Muffat - Violin Sonatas (2010)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 368 Mb | Total time: 73:46 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Alba Records | # ABCD 311 | Recorded: 2006, 2008

In a kind of High Baroque version of the duelling guitars from the film ‘Deliverance’, Alba have contrived to set Heinrich Biber and Georg Muffat against each other as rivals in a virtual virtuoso set-piece. The evidence for this is perhaps a little thin, but what is true is that both of these almost exact contemporaries worked for a while at the same time in the Court of the Prince-Archbishop of Salzburg. This period in the 1670s and 1680s gives rise to the not unreasonable speculation that there was a “rivalry that in all probability existed between them for the favour of their influential employer”, presumably with the ambition of ending up as Hofkapellmeister.

Meret Lüthi, Sabine Stoffer, Les Passions de L'Ame - Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber: Harmonia Artificioso-Ariosa (2021)

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Meret Lüthi, Sabine Stoffer, Les Passions de L'Ame - Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber: Harmonia Artificioso-Ariosa (2021)

Meret Lüthi, Sabine Stoffer, Les Passions de L'Ame - Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber: Harmonia Artificioso-Ariosa (2021)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 459 Mb | Total time: 01:21:37 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Deutsche Harmonia Mundi | # 19439855872 | Recorded: 2013-2019

Das Berner Ensemble Les Passions de l'Ame erhielt für alle seine Veröffentlichungen bei Deutsche Harmonia Mundi exzellente Besprechungen und wurde 2020 für das Album "Variety" mit einem OPUS KLASSIK ausgezeichnet.

John Holloway, Davitt Moroney, Tragicomedia - Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber: The Mystery Sonatas (2002)

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John Holloway, Davitt Moroney, Tragicomedia - Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber: The Mystery Sonatas (2002)

John Holloway, Davitt Moroney, Tragicomedia - Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber: The Mystery Sonatas / Die Rosenkranz-Sonaten (2002)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 722 Mb | Total time: 74:52+55:33 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Virgin Veritas | # 5 62062 2 | Recorded: 1989

Biber's 15 Mystery Sonatas with their additional Passacaglia for unaccompanied violin were written in about 1678 and dedicated to his employer, the Archbishop of Salzburg. Each Sonata is inspired by a section of the Rosary devotion of the Catholic Church which offered a system of meditation on 15 Mysteries from the lives of Jesus and the Virgin Mary. The music isn't, strictly speaking, programmatic, though often vividly illustrative of events which took place in the life of Christ.

Jordi Savall, Le Concert des Nations, La Capella Reial de Catalunya - Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber: Missa Bruxellensis (2000)

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Jordi Savall, Le Concert des Nations, La Capella Reial de Catalunya - Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber: Missa Bruxellensis (2000)

Jordi Savall, Le Concert des Nations, La Capella Reial de Catalunya - Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber: Missa Bruxellensis XXIII vocum (2000)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 305 Mb | Total time: 51:30 | Scans included
Classical | Label: AliaVox | # AV 9808 | Recorded: 1999

The technology at our command, the electronic images we see every day, the ease and swiftness of world travel and communication has left modern humans with a waning sense of awe. We can argue about who was or is better off, but for 17th century Europeans, awe-inspiring events happened with some regularity. Pageantry was one of the more effective and popular means to impress a congregation, and there was nothing like a huge celebration in a massive cathedral to remind each person of his place in the grand scheme.

Dorothee Oberlinger, I Sonatori de la Gioiosa Marca - Night Music (2019)

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Dorothee Oberlinger, I Sonatori de la Gioiosa Marca - Night Music (2019)

Dorothee Oberlinger, I Sonatori de la Gioiosa Marca - Night Music (2019)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 333 Mb | Total time: 68:29 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Deutsche Harmonia Mundi | # 19075912522 | Recorded: 2018

The present recording brings together various examples of night music from the European tradition and constitutes a kaleidoscope refracting the manifold facets of night. In tells of brilliant celebrations, nocturnal love dramas and desires, tender lullabies, ghosts, birds of the night and the most holy of nights. It is Antonio Vivaldi's music that is pivotal to our recording. Providing a bridge between his works and functioning as interludes are songs, diminutions, motets, madrigals, sommeils and chaconnes from Spai, the Netherlands, France, England, Italy, Germany and Austria.

Hana Blažíková, CordArte - German Baroque Cantatas (2013)

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Hana Blažíková, CordArte - German Baroque Cantatas (2013)

Hana Blažíková, CordArte - German Baroque Cantatas (2013)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 349 Mb | Total time: 73:37 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Pan Classics | # PC10293 | Recorded: 2013

The young Czech soprano Hana Bla íkóva is currently one of the most exciting voices in the baroque scene today. After receiving her final diploma at the Conservatory of her native city Prague in 2002, the singer very rapidly gained an excellent reputation as a baroque interpreter. Conductors such as Philippe Herreweghe, Masaaki Suzuki and Vaclav Luks frequently invite her for CD recordings, concerts and tours. She regularly appears at renowned festivals including Prague Spring, Festival Oude Muziek Utrecht, Resonances in Vienna and the Early Music Days in Regensburg.

The Purcell Quartet - Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber: Sonatae tam aris quam aulis servientes (1996)

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The Purcell Quartet - Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber: Sonatae tam aris quam aulis servientes (1996)

The Purcell Quartet - Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber: Sonatae tam aris quam aulis servientes (1996)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 335 Mb | Total time: 66:38 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Chandos | # CHAN 0591 | Recorded: 1995

A more radiant and gratifyingly robust collection of baroque instrumental works would be hard to imagine. Dedicated to Biber’s patron, Maximilian Gandolph, in the 1676 publication, these 12 sonatas (which broadly translate as ‘sonatas suitable for altar or court’) juxtapose pieces for a rich five- or six-part string palette – pursuing an exhilarating, intensely-wrought, sophisticated and unpredictable musical rhetoric – with quasi-concerted and swaggering trumpets. The two are not mutually exclusive since Biber wrote Sonata VI for a solo trumpet in G minor, a work which stretches the capability of the ‘natural’ instrument and coaxes it into the poignant and refined world of early Italian canzonas.

Anton Steck, Christian Rieger, Lee Santana, Hille Perl - Biber: Violin Sonatas from the Kremsier Archive (2005)

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Anton Steck, Christian Rieger, Lee Santana, Hille Perl - Biber: Violin Sonatas from the Kremsier Archive (2005)

Anton Steck, Christian Rieger, Lee Santana, Hille Perl - Biber: Violin Sonatas from the Kremsier Archive (2005)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 380 Mb | Total time: 67:12 | Scans included
Classical | Label: CPO | # 777 124-2 | Recorded: 2004

This plunge into the steady stream of Biber releases comes from violinist Anton Steck, an alumnus of the Musica Antiqua Köln period-instrument group. Austria's Heinrich Ignaz von Biber was a brilliant, iconoclastic violinist and composer of the late seventeenth century, hardly known 25 years ago but now the recipient of attention from violinists and casual listeners alike. His Mystery Sonatas collectively depict the Passion story through the unique device of scordatura, or retuning of the violin, which forces the instrument into strange, unearthly textures and moods.

Plamena Nikitassova, Les Élémens - Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber: Sonatae Violino Sonatas 1681 (2022)

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Plamena Nikitassova, Les Élémens - Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber: Sonatae Violino Sonatas 1681 (2022)

Plamena Nikitassova, Les Élémens - Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber: Sonatae Violino Sonatas 1681 (2022)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 607 Mb | Total time: 111:25 | Scans included
Classical | Label: CPO | # 5554812 | Recorded: 2021

The opus most decisive for Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber's fame and widely used into the 18th century are the eight sonatas for violin and basso continuo published in 1681. Since the Sonatae unarum fidium by the Viennese violin virtuoso Johann Heinrich Schmelzer, published in 1664, no violin solos of comparable extraordinary compositional and technical ambition had appeared. With his sonatas of 1681, Biber succeeded in setting new standards and achieving a previously unattained synthesis of equally high virtuoso demands, artistic content and compositional technical level. Our exceptional violinist Plamena Nikitassova uses a historical playing technique for her interpretation - a technique that is hardly cultivated any more even among baroque violinists.

Pavlo Beznosiuk, Richard Tunnicliffe, Paula Chateauneuf, David Roblou - Biber: The Rosary Sonatas (2004)

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Pavlo Beznosiuk, Richard Tunnicliffe, Paula Chateauneuf, David Roblou - Biber: The Rosary Sonatas (2004)

Pavlo Beznosiuk, Richard Tunnicliffe, Paula Chateauneuf, David Roblou - Biber: The Rosary Sonatas (2004)
WEB | FLAC (tracks) - 770 MB | 02:36:47
Genre: Classical | Label: Avie

Bohemian Catholic composer Heinrich Biber was arguably the most distinguished 17th century composer of instrumental music for the church. His output was not extensive but it was extraordinary, especially his best-known opus, The Rosary Sonatas of the 1670s. Depicting the 15 mysteries of the rosary, these works are remarkable for their vivid programmatic nature, the use of extended techniques such as scordatura (retuning of the violin strings), and virtuostic writing (Biber himself was an accomplished violinist).

Andrew Manze, The English Concert - Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber: Missa Christi resurgentis (2005)

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Andrew Manze, The English Concert - Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber: Missa Christi resurgentis (2005)

Andrew Manze, The English Concert - Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber: Missa Christi resurgentis (2005)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 344 Mb | Total time: 77:34 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Harmonia Mundi | # HMU 907397 | Recorded: 2004

The music on this disc is about sonority, about the brilliance of trumpets and strings in a live, reverberant acoustic such as that of Salzburg cathedral, for which at least some of these works were conceived. And Andrew Manze and his English Concert unequivocally deliver (albeit in the less-opulent confines of London’s Temple Church), from the opening fanfare through the vibrant, tuneful, richly scored sonatas that periodically spice this thoughtfully organized program. The featured work is a Mass, the Missa Christi Resurgentis, likely written for Easter in 1764. It’s a lavish celebration scored for two four-part choirs, an added bass singer, plus two instrumental ensembles, designed to be performed antiphonally in a grand display.

The Purcell Quartet with Elizabeth Wallfisch - Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber: Harmonia artificiosa ariosa (1994) 2CDs

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The Purcell Quartet with Elizabeth Wallfisch - Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber: Harmonia artificiosa ariosa (1994) 2CDs

Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber: Harmonia artificiosa ariosa (1994) 2CDs
The Purcell Quartet with Elizabeth Wallfisch (viola d`amore)

EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 429 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 216 Mb | Scans included
Classical, Baroque | Label: Chandos | # CHAN0575/6 | Time: 01:30:22

Like many of his German and Austrian contemporaries, Bohemian-born composer Heinrich von Biber was strongly influenced by the Italian school of violin composition that included Biagio Marini (1587-1665) and Marco Uccellini (1603-1680). A noted virtuoso himself, Biber and his teacher Johann Heinrich Schmelzer (1621-1680) were two of the most important figures of the late seventeenth-century Viennese violin style. Biber's keen understanding of the technical and expressive possibilities of the instrument is evident in his innovative use of pizzicato (plucking of the string with the finger), double and triple stops (more than one note played at once creating "chords"), col legno (stick of the bow on the string), sul ponticello (played close to the bridge), and, especially, scordatura (intentional "mistuning" of the strings). Scordatura allowed the performer to play chords in particular keys more easily, extended the range of notes, and provided more open strings in order to negotiate the difficulty of polyphonic writing for a single instrument. Biber's imaginative and original use of these techniques or special effects brought violin virtuosity to an entirely new level of musical expression in the Baroque period. It can be argued that J. S. Bach's masterful Sonatas and Partitas for Solo Violin, written in 1720, are direct descendants of Biber's grounding breaking Mystery or Rosary Sonatas, composed nearly a quarter of a century earlier.

Christina Pluhar, L'Arpeggiata, Barbara Furtuna, Nuria Rial, Philippe Jaroussky - Via Crucis (2010)

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Christina Pluhar, L'Arpeggiata, Barbara Furtuna, Nuria Rial, Philippe Jaroussky - Via Crucis (2010)

Christina Pluhar, L'Arpeggiata, Barbara Furtuna, Nuria Rial, Philippe Jaroussky - Via Crucis (2010)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 333 Mb | Total time: 70:35 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Virgin Classics | # 694577 | Recorded: 2009

2009 release from L'Arpeggiata, the French-based ensemble directed by Austrian-born harpist and lutenist Christina Pluhar. L'Arpeggiata has made a speciality of exploring and exploiting the close links between Baroque repertoire and the traditional music of the Latin world and its characteristic forms such as the tarantella, the folia or the canario. On Via Crucis, 'the way of the Cross', the focus is on the pervasive presence of religious feeling in Southern Europe. The Passion of Christ evokes the same fervour in composers such as Giovanni Felice Sances (1600-1679) or Tarquinio Merula (1594-1665) - both active in northern Italy – as it does in the streets of Naples or the villages of Corsica. The two main works in the collection are Sance's extraordinary Stabat Mater and Merula's Hor ch'e tempo di dormire, in which the Virgin Mary lulls her baby to sleep while weeping for his future suffering and both enthrall the listener with a basso ostinato and hypnotic swaying rhythms.