Rachel Podger - Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber: Rosary Sonatas (2015)

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Artist: Rachel Podger
Title Of Album: Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber: Rosary Sonatas
Year Of Release: 2015
Label: Channel Classics
Genre: Classical, Violin, Baroque
Quality: Mp3 / FLAC (tracks,digital booklet)
Bitrate: 320kbps / Lossless [44.1kHz/16bit / 96kHz/24bit / 192kHz/24bit]
Time: 2:13:23
Full Size: 328 mb / 689 mb / 2.58 gb / 4.23 gb

Biber's Rosary Sonatas are considered the most extensive example of scordatura - a technique whereby the strings are purposefully tuned differently from their usual arrangement. In these works, the violin's usual G-D-A-E tuning is only used for the opening sonata and the closing Passacaglia. The other fourteen sonatas each have a different configuration of tuning. Compositionally, this allowed Biber to obtain unusual chords, opening up a whole new spectrum of harmonic and textural possibilities. This fundamentally altered what a violin was and could be; its physicality as well as its voice was transformed. On this recording, the incomparable Rachel Podger reveals all the mysteries and glories of these amazing works.

TRACKLIST:

Disc 1
1 The Annunciation d minor (i, v, iii) 5.57
2 The Visitation a major (i, vi, iv/v, iii) 5.33
3 The Nativity b minor (i, v, ii) 7.27
4 The Presentation in the Temple d minor (i, iv, iii) 8.13
5 The Finding in the Temple a major (i, vi, iv/v, ii) 7.18
6 The Agony in the Garden c minor (i, v, iii) 9.10
7 The Scourging f major (i, iv/v, iii) 8.59
8 The Crowning with Thorns bb major (i, iv) 7.11

Disc 2
1 The Carrying of the Cross a minor (i, v, ii) 7.55
2 The Crucifixion g minor (i, iv, ii) 9.09
3 The Resurrection g major (i, v, iii) 7.58
4 The Ascension c major (i, vi, iv, iii) 7.21
5 The Descent of the Holy Ghost d minor (i, iv/v, ii) 8.10
6 The Assumption of the Blessed Virgin d major (i, iv, ii) 10.29
7 The Coronation of the Blessed Virgin c major (i, vii, v, iii) 12.18
8 Guardian Angel taken from ccs sa 35513 ‘Guardian Angel’ (i) 10.00

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