The dazzling violin repertoire of Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber, with works by Georg Böhm, Johann Jakob Froberger, and Johann Rosenmüller.
Curious inventions, extravagant caprices, bizarrenesses, ideas, harmonic artifices – such marvelous captions to 17th-century tomes of violin music herald what was referred to as the fantastic style. The composer whose flights of fancy stretched the instrument to the outermost edges of its reach was surely Heinrich Ignaz von Biber. This is virtuoso music whose aim is “to please, to overtake and to astonish.”
Partia No. 3 in A Major
Praeludium
Allamande
Amener
Balletto
Gigue
Ciacona
Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber (1644-1704)
Prelude, Fugue and Postlude in G Minor
Georg Böhm (1661-1733)
Sonata Representativa
Allegro
Nachtigal (Nightingale)
CuCu (Cuckoo)
Fresch (Frog)
Die Henn und Der Hann (The Cock & The Hen)
Die Wachtel (The Quail)
Die Katz (The Cat)
Musquetier Mars (Musketeers’ March)
Allemande
Biber
Partia No. 5 in G minor
Intrada
Aria
Balletto
Gigue
Passacaglia
Biber
INTERMISSION
Toccata No. 2 in D Minor
Johann Jakob Froberger (1616-1667)
Sonata No. 1 in G Minor
Johann Rosenmüller (1617-1684)
Passacaglia
Biber
Meditation on my future death
Froberger
Partia No. 6 in D Major
Praeludium
Aria with Variatio
Finale
Biber