The Purcell Quartet appears to be recording all of Heinrich Biber's string chamber music and their flexible lineup -- Jane Rogers joins on viola to fill out the fifth part here -- certainly facilitates Biber's rather unique requirements. The main concentration of Purcell Quartet's attention to Biber was in the 1990s; between 1994 and 1997, it recorded, in quick succession, the Harmonia artificiosa ariosa, Sonatae tam aris quam Aulis servientes, and the Fidicunium Sacro-Profanum. With this recording of the Mensa sonora, the ...
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The Purcell Quartet appears to be recording all of Heinrich Biber's string chamber music and their flexible lineup -- Jane Rogers joins on viola to fill out the fifth part here -- certainly facilitates Biber's rather unique requirements. The main concentration of Purcell Quartet's attention to Biber was in the 1990s; between 1994 and 1997, it recorded, in quick succession, the Harmonia artificiosa ariosa, Sonatae tam aris quam Aulis servientes, and the Fidicunium Sacro-Profanum. With this recording of the Mensa sonora, the only string chamber works Biber left that the Purcell Quartet hasn't gotten to are mostly solo sonatas -- the Mystery Sonatas, the sonatas of 1681, and a number of miscellaneous sonatas and occasional pieces, not all of which are squarely landed in the camp of Biber and all of which are smaller than they are. One of these fugitive sonatas is nevertheless included here -- the Sonata in A major, C. 147 -- and interestingly it is used to divide the six partitas in the Mensa Sonora. This...
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