Biber: The Rosary Sonatas - Arts: 477358 - 2 SACDs or download | Presto Classical

Release Date: 28th Apr 2008
Catalogue No: 477358
Label: Arts
Length: 2 hours 4 minutes

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Biber: Mystery Sonata No. 1 in D Minor 'The Annunciation'

5:08

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Biber: Mystery Sonata No. 2 in A Major 'The Visitation'

6:23

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Biber: Mystery Sonata No. 3 in B Minor 'The Nativity'

6:05

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Biber: Sonata IV: Ciaccona - The Presentation At The Temple

8:50

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Biber: Mystery Sonata No. 5 in A Major 'The Finding in the Temple'

8:29

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Biber: Mystery Sonata No. 6 in C Minor 'The Agony in the Garden'

7:53

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Biber: Mystery Sonata No. 7 in F Major 'The Scourging of Jesus'

9:27

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Biber: Mystery Sonata No. 8 in B-Flat Major 'The Crowning with Thorns'

6:00

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Biber: Mystery Sonata No. 9 in A Minor 'Jesus Carrying the Cross'

5:55

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Biber: Sonata X: Praeludium, Aria – Variatio - The Crucifixion

9:03

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Biber: Sonata XI: Sonata, Surrexit Christus Hodie, Adagio - The Resurrection

7:37

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Biber: Mystery Sonata No. 12 in C Major 'The Ascension'

8:10

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Biber: Mystery Sonata No. 13 in D Minor 'The Descent of the Holy Ghost'

8:13

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Biber: Sonata XIV: Aria, Gigue - The Assumption Of The Virgin

7:21

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Biber: Mystery Sonata No. 15 in C Major 'The Coronation of the Virgin'

11:34

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Biber: Passacaglia for violin solo in G minor (from Mystery Sonatas)

8:46

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Heinrich Ignaz Biber was born in Wartenberg (now Stráž pod Ralskem in the Czech Republic). His music has in recent years enjoyed a renaissance, in part, because of “The Rosary Sonatas”. This remarkable set of 16 sonatas, compiled in the early 1670s, is also known as “The Mystery Sonatas” (as representing key events in the lives of the Virgin Mary and Christ) and The “Copper-Engraving Sonatas” (for the engravings at the head of the sonatas). Each sonata employs a different tuning of the violin. This use of scordatura, (altering the tuning of the strings), transforms the violin from the pleasures of the Five Joyful Mysteries (the Annunciation, etc.) to the trauma of the Five Sorrowful Mysteries (the Crucifixion, etc.) to ethereal nature of the Six Glorious Mysteries, starting with the Resurrection Sonata, where the two middle strings are symbolically crossed over to Sonata No 16, a passacaglia for solo violin with standard tuning, completing the cycle.