The success of several recent recordings of Heinrich Biber's Mystery Sonatas seems to have spurred the issue or reissue of other works by this wild man of the late seventeenth century German Baroque. The splendidly ambitiously titled Harmonia Artificiosa-Ariosa, a set of partitas for the trio-sonata ensemble of two solo instruments plus continuo, is especially closely related to the Mystery Sonatas, for Biber again made use here of the scordatura or retuning technique. Biber was writing for a small ensemble in these pieces, ...
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The success of several recent recordings of Heinrich Biber's Mystery Sonatas seems to have spurred the issue or reissue of other works by this wild man of the late seventeenth century German Baroque. The splendidly ambitiously titled Harmonia Artificiosa-Ariosa, a set of partitas for the trio-sonata ensemble of two solo instruments plus continuo, is especially closely related to the Mystery Sonatas, for Biber again made use here of the scordatura or retuning technique. Biber was writing for a small ensemble in these pieces, and not for the intrinsically extreme solo violin, but the music has a full complement of the flashy, moody quality prized by Biber's fans. That group included the great English critic Charles Burney, who a century after Biber's period of activity called him the top virtuoso of his time.The lead creative force on this two-disc set is Reinhard Goebel, the director of the Musica Antiqua Köln. There's no doubt that Biber poses a tough interpretive challenge for players; his music seems...
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