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Lina Tur Bonet, Musica Alchemica - Biber: The Rosary Sonatas (2015) [Hi-Res]

Lina Tur Bonet, Musica Alchemica - Biber: The Rosary Sonatas (2015) [Hi-Res]
  • Title: Biber: The Rosary Sonatas
  • Year Of Release: 2015
  • Label: Pan Classics
  • Genre: Classical
  • Quality: flac 24bits - 96.0kHz +Booklet
  • Total Time: 02:04:49
  • Total Size: 2.5 gb
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Tracklist
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CD1
01. Mystery Sonatas: No. 1, The Annunciation, C. 90
02. Mystery Sonatas: No. 2, The Visitation, C. 91
03. Mystery Sonatas: No. 3, The Nativity, C. 92
04. Mystery Sonatas: No. 4, The Presentation in the Temple, C. 93
05. Mystery Sonatas: No. 5, The Finding in the Temple, C. 94
06. Mystery Sonatas: No. 6, The Agony in the Garden, C. 95
07. Mystery Sonatas: No. 7, The Scourging of Jesus, C. 96
08. Mystery Sonatas: No. 8, The Crown of Thorns, C. 97

CD2
01. Mystery Sonatas: No. 9, Jesus Carries the Cross, C. 98
02. Mystery Sonatas: No. 10, The Crucifixion, C. 99
03. Mystery Sonatas: No. 11, The Resurrection, C. 100
04. Mystery Sonatas: No. 12, The Ascension, C. 101
05. Mystery Sonatas: No. 13, Pentecost, C. 102
06. Mystery Sonatas: No. 14, The Assumption of the Virgin, C. 103
07. Mystery Sonatas: No. 15, The Coronation of the Virgin, C. 104
08. Mystery Sonatas: Passagalia, C. 105 "The Guardian Angel"

Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber's 'Rosary Sonatas' (or Mystery Sonatas) were written about 1678 and dedicated to his employer the Archbishop of Salzburg. They are really unlike anything else in the violin literature. Scordatura, or unconventional tuning of an instrument's strings, was common enough during the Baroque era, but Biber's cycle of 15 pieces for violin and continuo explores the technique exhaustively: each of the 15 sonatas uses a different tuning.

The result is music of fearsome difficulty for the player and technical complexity generates spiritual intensity. Each sonata represents one of the Mysteries of the Catholic Rosary, which are divided into five Joyful Mysteries (the Annunciation …), five Sorrowful Mysteries (Christ's crucifixion …), and five Glorious Mysteries (centered on the Resurrection and on Mary's Assumption). As the music reaches its spiritual climax in the "Resurrection" sonata, Biber specifies that the violin be played with its two central strings crossed.

Lina Tur Bonet is one of the most exciting violinists of the younger generation. She is accompanied by her ensemble Musica Alchemica, with which she recently made an enthralling Vivaldi CD (PC10314).



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  • olga1001
  •  wrote in 15:34
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Many thanks for 24-96 :))
Personally best rather than Rachel Podger but I cannot evaluate her fairly :p
Passionate Biber but she is usually gentle and considerate :)
When she plays nearby, please go there ^.^