Biber Harmonia Artificioso Ariosa

The Rare Fruits Council - Biber: Harmonia Artificioso-Ariosa (1996)

The Rare Fruits Council - Biber: Harmonia Artificioso-Ariosa (1996)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 01:18:39 | 458 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: Astrée Auvidis ‎| Catalog: E 8572

This must be one of the most evocative, stylish and thoughtful interpretations of anything Biber ever wrote. From the moment it begins with its rich sonorous chords, we know we are in for a treat, and the Rare Fruits Council (what a glorious name!) never disappoints. Many people are well-acquainted with Biber's 'Mystery Sonatas', but these delicious pieces are not quite so familiar. Treat yourself to any available copy - and hope for a reissue from Astree of this version - because if you like the composer, if you like early baroque music, and if you like your playing vigorous, intense, and full of rich harmony and energy, this is for you.
Meret Lüthi, Sabine Stoffer, Les Passions de L'Ame - Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber: Harmonia Artificioso-Ariosa (2021)

Meret Lüthi, Sabine Stoffer, Les Passions de L'Ame - Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber: Harmonia Artificioso-Ariosa (2021)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 459 Mb | Total time: 01:21:37 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Deutsche Harmonia Mundi | # 19439855872 | Recorded: 2013-2019

Das Berner Ensemble Les Passions de l'Ame erhielt für alle seine Veröffentlichungen bei Deutsche Harmonia Mundi exzellente Besprechungen und wurde 2020 für das Album "Variety" mit einem OPUS KLASSIK ausgezeichnet.
Jeanne Lamon, Tafelmusik - Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber: Harmonia artificioso-ariosa (2006)

Jeanne Lamon, Tafelmusik - Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber: Harmonia artificioso-ariosa (2006)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 409 Mb | Total time: 77:55 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Sony Classical | # C10702 | Recorded: 1993

Biber was one of the most talented and fascinating composers of the 17th century. He spent his life working between Czechoslovakia and Austria, attaining a considerable amount of fame and even earning a patent of nobility (he was permitted later in life to refer to himself as "von" Biber). His instrumental music is the most fanciful and entertaining of the period, partly due to his use of scordatura, or mistuning. This technique requires a different violin-string tuning for each of the seven partitas in this collection, which gives each a particular instrumental color. A partita, by the way, is the same thing as a suite–a selection of dances collected together to make a contrasting set.
Les Passions de l'Ame - Biber: Harmonia Artificioso-Ariosa (2021) [Official Digital Download 24/48]

Les Passions de l'Ame - Biber: Harmonia Artificioso-Ariosa (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/48 kHz | Front Cover & Digital Booklet | Time - 81:34 minutes | 932 MB
Classical | Label: deutsche harmonia mundi, Official Digital Download

The violinist and composer Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber (1644–1704) was a celebrated Kapellmeister at the court of Archbishop Max Gandolph of Salzburg. Present-day audiences tend to think of him first and foremost as the author of anthologies of spectacular violin music such as his Rosary Sonatas of around 1670 and his Sonatas for solo violin of 1681. But attitudes to these works were initially devastatingly dismissive. In 1927, the eighth – posthumous – edition of Wilhelm Joseph von Wasielewski’s seminal Die Violine und ihre Meister appeared with revisions by the author’s son, Waldemar, and assured its readers that only “some” of these pieces were of “lasting musical merit”.

Les Passions de l'Ame - Biber: Harmonia Artificioso-Ariosa (2021)  Music

Posted by delpotro at March 18, 2021
Les Passions de l'Ame - Biber: Harmonia Artificioso-Ariosa (2021)

Les Passions de l'Ame - Biber: Harmonia Artificioso-Ariosa (2021)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 455 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 198 Mb | Digital booklet | 01:21:34
Classical | Label: deutsche harmonia mundi

The violinist and composer Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber (1644–1704) was a celebrated Kapellmeister at the court of Archbishop Max Gandolph of Salzburg. Present-day audiences tend to think of him first and foremost as the author of anthologies of spectacular violin music such as his Rosary Sonatas of around 1670 and his Sonatas for solo violin of 1681. But attitudes to these works were initially devastatingly dismissive. In 1927, the eighth – posthumous – edition of Wilhelm Joseph von Wasielewski’s seminal Die Violine und ihre Meister appeared with revisions by the author’s son, Waldemar, and assured its readers that only “some” of these pieces were of “lasting musical merit”.
Der Musikalische Garten - Biber Harmonia artificioso-ariosa (2020) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

Der Musikalische Garten - Biber Harmonia artificioso-ariosa (2020) [Official Digital Download 24/96]
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Front Cover | Time - 83:25 minutes | 1,58 GB
Classical | Label: Coviello Classics, Official Digital Download

Even in the17th century critics called it a "forced art", and indeed, even for many professionals today it is not easy to understand scordatura as an intuitive way of playing the violin.
Der Musikalische Garten - Biber: Harmonia Artificioso-Ariosa (2020)

Der Musikalische Garten - Biber: Harmonia Artificioso-Ariosa (2020)
FLAC tracks | 02:23:11 | 459 Mb
Genre: Classical / Label: Coviello Classics

Even in the17th century critics called it a "forced art", and indeed, even for many professionals today it is not easy to understand scordatura as an intuitive way of playing the violin. But when composers master the art of retuned strings to perfection, completely new sound experiences are possible. Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber was without question one of the greatest in this field, and so his seven sonatas recorded here actually offer "artful vocal harmonies", as the Latin title promises. In each sonata, Biber prescribes different, sometimes considerably deviating from the usual tunings – the result is sometimes considerably more, sometimes considerably less tension on the strings, which leads to a completely new tonal differentiation of the apparently so familiar string instruments. The ensemble Der Musikalische Garten presents this technically and musically perfect.
The Purcell Quartet with Elizabeth Wallfisch - Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber: Harmonia artificiosa ariosa (1994) 2CDs

Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber: Harmonia artificiosa ariosa (1994) 2CDs
The Purcell Quartet with Elizabeth Wallfisch (viola d`amore)

EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 429 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 216 Mb | Scans included
Classical, Baroque | Label: Chandos | # CHAN0575/6 | Time: 01:30:22

Like many of his German and Austrian contemporaries, Bohemian-born composer Heinrich von Biber was strongly influenced by the Italian school of violin composition that included Biagio Marini (1587-1665) and Marco Uccellini (1603-1680). A noted virtuoso himself, Biber and his teacher Johann Heinrich Schmelzer (1621-1680) were two of the most important figures of the late seventeenth-century Viennese violin style. Biber's keen understanding of the technical and expressive possibilities of the instrument is evident in his innovative use of pizzicato (plucking of the string with the finger), double and triple stops (more than one note played at once creating "chords"), col legno (stick of the bow on the string), sul ponticello (played close to the bridge), and, especially, scordatura (intentional "mistuning" of the strings). Scordatura allowed the performer to play chords in particular keys more easily, extended the range of notes, and provided more open strings in order to negotiate the difficulty of polyphonic writing for a single instrument. Biber's imaginative and original use of these techniques or special effects brought violin virtuosity to an entirely new level of musical expression in the Baroque period. It can be argued that J. S. Bach's masterful Sonatas and Partitas for Solo Violin, written in 1720, are direct descendants of Biber's grounding breaking Mystery or Rosary Sonatas, composed nearly a quarter of a century earlier.
Les Passions de l'Ame - Variety - The Art of Variation. Works for Violin by Biber, Fux & Schmelzer (2019)

Les Passions de l'Ame - Variety - The Art of Variation. Works for Violin by Biber, Fux & Schmelzer (2019)
FLAC tracks +booklet | 01:01:50 | 340 Mb
Genre: Classical / Label: deutsche harmonia mundi

The Austrian baroque composers Biber, Fux and Schmelzer master the art of variation in their most creative, innovative and virtuoso way. The perfect invitation to encourage the musicians to a colorful, lively and surprising interpretation on violins by Jacobus Stainer.
Clemencic Consort, Rene Clemencic - Biber & Fux: Chamber Works (2022)

Clemencic Consort, Rene Clemencic - Biber & Fux: Chamber Works (2022)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless | 2:09:46 | 712 Mb
Genre: Classical / Label: Oehms Classics

This recording with the renowned Clemencic Consort conducted by René Clemencic includes selected works by the important composers Johann Joseph Fux (1660-1741) and Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber. In the selection of Fux's works, cosmopolitan skill meets French and Italian styles with southern German tradition. Graceful in the graceful pieces by Biber, magnificently representative in the solemn ones, this recording with a varied program offers an authentic portrait of one of the most important masters of baroque music.