Biber: Missa Alleluja

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This latest offering is compelling, even if moments of discomfort occasionally invade the singing — BBC Music Magazine, June 2017, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 27th Jan 2017
Catalogue No: ACC24325
Label: Accent
Length: 58 minutes

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Biber: Missa Alleluja a 36

Work length31:07

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$18.20

Erich Traxler (organ)
St. Florianer Sängerknaben, Ars Antiqua Austria
Gunar Letzbor
Recorded: 25 - 26 August 2014
Recording Venue: Stadtpfarrkirche Neunchen and Monastery of St. Florian, Austria

Kyrie

Track length2:10

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Gloria

Track length6:06

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In Gloria Dei Patris

Track length1:44

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Credo

Track length3:16

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Et incarnatus

Track length1:04

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Crucifixus

Track length2:09

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Et resurexit

Track length2:09

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Et in spiritum sanctum

Track length3:03

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Sanctus

Track length1:52

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Osanna

Track length1:20

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Benedictus

Track length0:59

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Osanna

Track length1:20

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Agnus Die

Track length2:20

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Dona nobis pacem

Track length1:35

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Biber: Nisi Dominus aedificaverit domum, "Psalm 126"

Work length13:27

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Gerd Kenda (bass), Gunar Letzbor (violin), Hubert Hoffmann (theorbo), Erich Traxler (organ)

Biber: Violin Sonata in A Major "Pastorella", C. 106 (1)

Work length6:07

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Gunar Letzbor (violin), Jan Krigovsky (violone), Hubert Hoffmann (theorbo), Erich Traxler (organ)

Pastorella, C. 106

Track length6:07

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Biber: Hic est panis

Work length8:17

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Gerd Kenda (bass), Gunar Letzbor (violin), Erich Traxler (organ)

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Several masses scored for large forces attest to the outstanding compositional skills of the Salzburg master Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber (1644-1704). For Salzburg Cathedral, Biber prepared polychoric pieces modelled on the grand performance practice in Venice.

The Missa Alleluja was probably composed after 1690 and certainly before 1698: the original score from Salzburg is lost but excellent copies have been preserved at the Upper Austrian abbey at Kremsmünster, which serve as a basis for the present recording. Biber fully exploited the possibilities of Baroque instrumentation in the Missa Alleluja: a chorus with 2 sopranos, 2 altos, 2 tenors and 2 bass voices grants him a large number of combinations of voices and thus constant changes of timbre. The strings 'choir' also has six parts, with both violins often written virtuosically. A 'chorus' of 3 trumpets and 2 cornetti is even surpassed in tonal mass by that composed of 2 clarinets, 4 trumpets and timpani. This large number of trumpets emphasises the cheerful character of the work and is luxurious by Austrian standards.

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June 2017

This latest offering is compelling, even if moments of discomfort occasionally invade the singing

18th July 2017

This disc is a treasure. Don't miss it

12th February 2017

This 36-part Missa Alleluja — an eight-voice chorus, plus Ars Antiqua’s three instrumental choirs — has a spring to its often triple-time step, duly emphasised by Letzbor. The hocketing of the Christe eleison is a joyful surprise, and both singing and playing are excellent.

Record Review 19th February 2017

the boys voices for me are one of the main attractions to this new recording, a different timbre to the grown-ups on Konrad Junghänel’s Deutsche harmonia mundi recording, which is slightly better integrated as a performance but the sense of space, the forces spread around a huge acoustic, the syncopated rhythms in that opening Kyrie and the sheer impact of the climax makes this new one really enjoyable.

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