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Biber: The Rosary Sonatas

Andrew Manze (violin), Richard Egarr (organ and harpsichord) & Alison McGillivray (cello, Sonata XII)

Biber: The Rosary Sonatas
Music illustrating the joyous, sorrowful and glorious events in the life of the Virgin is played with stylistic assurance and expressive sensibility by artists at home with Biber’s unique instrumental...

BBC Music Magazine, October 20164 out of 5 stars

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Biber: The Rosary Sonatas

Andrew Manze (violin), Richard Egarr (organ and harpsichord) & Alison McGillivray (cello, Sonata XII)

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Music illustrating the joyous, sorrowful and glorious events in the life of the Virgin is played with stylistic assurance and expressive sensibility by artists at home with Biber’s unique instrumental...

BBC Music Magazine, October 20164 out of 5 stars

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The 'Rosary' Sonatas are one of the most unusual collections of violin music ever assembled and it is these works on which Biber's present-day fame rests. Calling for a different violin tuning, scordatura, in each of the 15 Sonatas - all played here on the same Amati instrument - the full set is a triumph of Baroque invention and 17th-century virtuoso style. The Gramophone Award-winning partnership of Andrew Manze and Richard Egarr meets this challenge with dazzling results.

Andrew Manze plays a violin by Amati, 1700; bow by Gerhard Landwehr, Heemstede, 1988, after an Italian model.

Contents and tracklist

Biber: Mystery Sonata No. 1 in D Minor 'The Annunciation'
Work length6:01
I. Praeludium
Track length2:17
II. Aria (Variatio)
Track length2:24
III. Finale
Track length1:20
Biber: Mystery Sonata No. 2 in A Major 'The Visitation'
Work length6:49
I. Sonata
Track length2:07
II. Allamanda
Track length3:42
III. Finale
Track length1:00
Biber: Mystery Sonata No. 3 in B Minor 'The Nativity'
Work length7:23
I. Sonata
Track length1:41
II. Courente: Double
Track length3:25
III. Finale
Track length2:17
Biber: Mystery Sonata No. 4 in D Minor 'The Presentation in the Temple'
Work length9:01
Biber: Mystery Sonata No. 5 in A Major 'The Finding in the Temple'
Work length7:23
I. Praeludium
Track length1:09
II. Allamanda
Track length1:22
III. Guigue
Track length1:15
IV. Sarabanda: Double
Track length3:37
Biber: Mystery Sonata No. 6 in C Minor 'The Agony in the Garden'
Work length9:21
Biber: Mystery Sonata No. 7 in F Major 'The Scourging of Jesus'
Work length10:50
I. Allamanda (Variatio)
Track length5:14
II. Sarabanda (Variatio)
Track length5:36
Biber: Mystery Sonata No. 8 in B-Flat Major 'The Crowning with Thorns'
Work length6:12
I. Sonata
Track length2:28
II. Guigue: Double 1 & 2
Track length3:44
Biber: Mystery Sonata No. 9 in A Minor 'Jesus Carrying the Cross'
Work length9:23
I. Sonata
Track length2:32
II. Courente (Double)
Track length4:51
III. Finale
Track length2:00
Biber: Mystery Sonata No. 10 in G Minor 'The Crucifixion'
Work length9:41
I. Praeludium
Track length1:22
II. Aria
Track length3:56
III. Variatio
Track length4:23
Biber: Mystery Sonata No. 11 in G Major 'The Resurrection'
Work length7:28
I. Sonata
Track length2:26
II. Surexit Christus hodie
Track length3:50
III. Adagio
Track length1:12
Biber: Mystery Sonata No. 12 in C Major 'The Ascension'
Work length8:38
I. Intrada
Track length0:51
II. Aria Tubicinum
Track length1:24
III. Allamanda
Track length3:17
IV. Courente (Double)
Track length3:06
Biber: Mystery Sonata No. 13 in D Minor 'The Descent of the Holy Ghost'
Work length8:14
I. Sonata
Track length3:19
II. Gavotta
Track length1:33
III. Guigue
Track length1:49
IV. Sarabanda
Track length1:33
Biber: Mystery Sonata No. 14 in D Major 'The Assumption of the Virgin'
Work length9:36
I. Sonata
Track length2:27
II. Aria
Track length7:09
Biber: Mystery Sonata No. 15 in C Major 'The Coronation of the Virgin'
Work length12:07
I. Sonata
Track length1:54
II. Aria (Variatio)
Track length5:53
III. Canzona
Track length1:55
IV. Sarabanda (Double)
Track length2:25
Biber: Passagalia in G Minor for Solo Violin
Work length9:20
Biber: Scordatura briefly explained
Work length3:44

Awards and reviews

October 2016

Music illustrating the joyous, sorrowful and glorious events in the life of the Virgin is played with stylistic assurance and expressive sensibility by artists at home with Biber’s unique instrumental palette.
4 out of 5 stars
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