Soldiers, Gypsies, Farmers and a Night Watchman: Instrumental Pieces by Biber (2005)

The music of Austrian Baroque composer Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber (1644-1704) is exploding in popularity. Will it be as familiar as that of Bach in 20 or 30 years? Some of it is jaw-dropping enough to make you wonder. Consider some of the music on the Soldiers, Gypsies, Farmers and a Night Watchman album, which as the title suggests is made up of programmatic selections. The Battalia follows in a long tradition of musical representations of battle, but that statement hardly does it justice. Using only a small string ... Read More

The music of Austrian Baroque composer Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber (1644-1704) is exploding in popularity. Will it be as familiar as that of Bach in 20 or 30 years? Some of it is jaw-dropping enough to make you wonder. Consider some of the music on the Soldiers, Gypsies, Farmers and a Night Watchman album, which as the title suggests is made up of programmatic selections. The Battalia follows in a long tradition of musical representations of battle, but that statement hardly does it justice. Using only a small string ensemble, Biber has his soldiers enter the field, sing their various songs in a simultaneous jumble that sounds like nothing so much as Charles Ives, march forward with drums sounding (a double bass is modified with a piece of cardboard to produce a buzzing sound like a drum roll), clash violently with the enemy, and finally mourn their dead. Equally unusual is the Sonata a 6, "Die Pauernkirchfahrt genandt" (Sonata for Six Instruments, known as "The Farmers on the Way to Church") is... Read Less

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