Harmonia Mundi's Biber: Litaniae de Sancto Josepho, featuring Cantus Cölln and Concerto Palatino under Konrad Junghänel, is one of the finest recordings ever made of Salzburgian Baroque sacred choral music. Recorded in Melk Abbey in Austria, these combined period instrument groups pack a real wallop inside the Melk Abbey's cavernous interiors, and the music -- with its constant changes of mood and extremes of range in volume -- is breathlessly exciting. Crediting the disc to Biber overall is a little misleading, as only ...
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Harmonia Mundi's Biber: Litaniae de Sancto Josepho, featuring Cantus Cölln and Concerto Palatino under Konrad Junghänel, is one of the finest recordings ever made of Salzburgian Baroque sacred choral music. Recorded in Melk Abbey in Austria, these combined period instrument groups pack a real wallop inside the Melk Abbey's cavernous interiors, and the music -- with its constant changes of mood and extremes of range in volume -- is breathlessly exciting. Crediting the disc to Biber overall is a little misleading, as only about 21 minutes of the 70 minute disc are his; the main work is Georg Muffat's enormous Missa in labore requies and it dominates the proceedings. But no one will be disappointed, as anyone familiar with the elephantine scale of Biber's sacred music will easily note that this Muffat is cut of the same cloth; it just carries a different designer name. The long mass is intersected by sonatas by Antonio Bertali and Biber, and this helps for the listener to take a breath from the sheer...
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Add this copy of Litaniae De Sancto Josepho to cart. $7.52, like new condition, Sold by Streetlight_Records rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Santa Cruz, CA, UNITED STATES, published 2007 by Harmonia Mundi Fr.
Add this copy of Litaniae De Sancto Josepho to cart. $16.08, very good condition, Sold by Lake Country Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Excelsior, MN, UNITED STATES, published 2007 by Harmonia Mundi Fr.
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