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Symposium 85 - Biber

10 February 2008

THE MYSTERIOUS MUSIC OF BIBER


“Of the violin players of the last century, Biber seems to have been the best, and his solos are the most difficult and most fanciful of any music I have seen of the same period.”  — 18th-century historian Charles Burney

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Program


  • From the 8 Sonatae a Violino Solo (Salzburg, 1681)

    Sonata I Praeludium—Presto—Variatio/Finale

    Sonata II Praeludium—Aria e Variatio—Finale

    Sonata III Praeludium—Aria e Variatio—Variatio

     

         Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber
    1644-1704
  • INTERMISSION

  • The Annunciation from “The Mystery Sonatas” (c. 1674)

    Praeludium—Aria e Variatio—Adagio—Finale

     

         Biber

  • Sonata Representativa (c1669)

    Allegro
    Nachtigal     (Nightingale)
    CuCu (Cuckoo)
    Frosch (Frog)
    Die Henn & Der Hann (Hen & Cock)
    Die Wachtel (Quail)
    Die Katz (Cat)
    Musketier Marsch (Musketeer’s March)
    Allemande

     

         Biber

  • Sonata IV from Sonatæ unarum fidium (1664)
     Johann Heinrich Schmelzer
    c. 1620-1680

  • Keyboard Instruments provided by Edward Brewer.
    Pitch: A=440, 1/6 comma meantone, Silbermann temperament

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