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The Mystery Sonatas, Sonatas 1 - 15 & Passa
Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber

Walter Reiter

The Mystery Sonatas, Sonatas 1 - 15 & Passa

Price: € 25.95
Format: CD
Label: Signum Classics
UPC: 0635212002124
Catnr: SIGCD 021
Release date: 01 March 2004
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Label
Signum Classics
UPC
0635212002124
Catalogue number
SIGCD 021
Release date
01 March 2004
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About the album

This two disc set of Heinrich von Biber's Rosary or Mystery Sonatas presents the complete set of fifteen sonatas and the concluding passacaglia which appears in the sole surviving Munich manuscript.

The sonatas each correspond to the fifteen mysteries or meditations on the life of Christ. The meditations are traditionally grouped into three groups of five; Joyful - his early life, Sorrowful - his passion; Glorious - his ressurection.

In writing the sonatas Biber uses scordatura, tuning the strings to a different set of notes for each sonata. This achieves technical feats impossible with normal tuning and results in different sonorities resulting from the varying amounts of pressure from the strings and achieving the different desired mood for each sonata. For the violinist, this involves a constant contradiction between sight and sound, for what he sees is not he what he hears!

Walter Reiter's recording of the Mystery Sonatas is the culmination of a seven year labour of love and is in his own words, is his "most powerfully artistic experience to date".

De veeleisende Rozenkranssonates van Biber compleet op een dubbelalbum
Dit dubbelalbum bevat de complete set van Heinrich von Bibers Rozenkranssonates ofwel Mysteriesonates, met de afsluitende passacaglia, zoals die verschijnt in het enige overgeleverde manuscript uit München.

De sonates komen overeen met de vijftien mysteries of meditaties op het leven van Christus. De meditaties worden traditioneel verdeeld over drie groepen van vijf: Vreugdevol (zijn vroege leven), Treurig (zijn passie) en Glorierijk (zijn wederopstanding).

In de sonates maakt Biber gebruik van scordatura, het anders stemmen van een of meerdere snaren voor elke sonate. Hierdoor konden technische prestaties die bij een normale stemming onmogelijk zouden zijn bereikt worden. Het gebruik van scordatura resulteert ook in verschillende klanken als gevolg van de variërende druk op de snaren, waardoor de verlangde stemming voor elke sonate bereikt kan worden. Voor de violist brengt dit een constante tegenstelling met zich mee, omdat datgene wat hij ziet niet datgene is wat hij hoort!

Walter Reiters opname van deze sonates is het hoogtepunt van zeven jaar arbeid met liefde, en is in zijn eigen woorden zijn 'meest krachtige artistieke ervaring tot dan toe.'

Artist(s)

Composer(s)

Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber

Franz von Biber, he might as well be called 'the Jimi Hendrix of the 17th century'. His virtuosity on violin was unprecedented, and he combined this with a passion for experimentation which is just as remarkable. With his violin skills, Biber's social status quickly improved. After working as the 'musician in residence' for the bishop of Olmütz, he consecutively worked for the archbishop of Salzburg and, as a kapellmeister, for Emperor Leopold I. Biber was a religious man, and it can't be a coincidence both his daughters (he also had two sons) lived in a monastery.  Biber composed both instrumental als vocal music. The pinnacles of his body of works are undoubtedly his Rosary Sonatas and his Missa Salisburgensis. The former shows Biber's virtuosity...
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Franz von Biber, he might as well be called 'the Jimi Hendrix of the 17th century'. His virtuosity on violin was unprecedented, and he combined this with a passion for experimentation which is just as remarkable. With his violin skills, Biber's social status quickly improved. After working as the 'musician in residence' for the bishop of Olmütz, he consecutively worked for the archbishop of Salzburg and, as a kapellmeister, for Emperor Leopold I. Biber was a religious man, and it can't be a coincidence both his daughters (he also had two sons) lived in a monastery. Biber composed both instrumental als vocal music. The pinnacles of his body of works are undoubtedly his Rosary Sonatas and his Missa Salisburgensis. The former shows Biber's virtuosity as a compositional art; the latter shows, with its enourmous instrumentation, the capabilities of Biber as a grandiose composer.


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Disc #1
01.
Sonata no. 1 (The Annunciation): :Praeludium
06:51
(Franz von Biber )
02.
Sonata no. 1 (The Annunciation): :Variatie
00:00
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03.
Sonata no. 1 (The Annunciation): :(untitled)
00:00
(Franz von Biber )
04.
Sonata No. 2 (The Visitation): :(untitled)
04:36
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05.
Sonata No. 2 (The Visitation): :Allaman
00:00
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06.
Sonata No. 2 (The Visitation): :Presto
00:00
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07.
Sonata no. 3 (The Nativity): :(untitled)
07:37
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08.
Sonata no. 3 (The Nativity): :Courente
00:00
(Franz von Biber )
09.
Sonata no. 3 (The Nativity): :Adagio
00:00
(Franz von Biber )
10.
onata no. 4 (The Presentation of the Infant Jesus in the Temple): :Ciacona
08:59
(Franz von Biber )
11.
Sonata no. 5 (The Twelve-Year-Old Jesus in the Temple): :Praeludium
06:16
(Franz von Biber )
12.
Sonata no. 5 (The Twelve-Year-Old Jesus in the Temple): :Allaman
00:00
(Franz von Biber )
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Sonata no. 5 (The Twelve-Year-Old Jesus in the Temple): :Gigue
00:00
(Franz von Biber )
14.
Sonata no. 5 (The Twelve-Year-Old Jesus in the Temple): :Saraban
00:00
(Franz von Biber )
15.
Sonata no. 6 (Christ on the Mount of Olives):: :Lamento
09:56
(Franz von Biber )
16.
Sonata no. 7 (The Scourging at the Pillar): :Allamanda
08:46
(Franz von Biber )
17.
Sonata no. 7 (The Scourging at the Pillar): :Sarab; Variatio
00:00
(Franz von Biber )
18.
Sonata no. 8 (The Crown of Thorns): :(untitled)
07:49
(Franz von Biber )
19.
Sonata no. 8 (The Crown of Thorns): :Gigue & Double Presto, Double
00:00
(Franz von Biber )
20.
Sonata no. 9 (Jesus Carries the Cross): :(untitled)
08:36
(Franz von Biber )
21.
Sonata no. 9 (Jesus Carries the Cross): :Courente, Double
00:00
(Franz von Biber )
22.
Sonata no. 9 (Jesus Carries the Cross): :Finale
00:00
(Franz von Biber )

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