Heinrich Best

Best-selling Arcana title, a reference recording of a milestone of baroque violin literature.Recorded in the beautiful acoustics of the parish church of Hallstatt (Austria), where Gunar Letzbor was born, this personal and dramatic interpretation of Biber's most popular work, usually referred to today as the Mistery or Rosary sonatas, comes back after years of absence.Gunar Letzbor makes his journey through the mysteries or events in the life of the Virgin Mary using two different violins and accompanied by no fewer than six musicians playing kaleidoscopic combinations of harpsichord, organ, lute, archlute, two bass viols and double bass a big continuo group which enhances and intensifies the changing moods of the cycle.

Heinrich Marschner (1795-1851) - Lieder und Balladen / Love Songs & Ballads
Steven Kimbrough, Baritone / Dalton Baldwin, Piano
EAC+LOG+CUE | FLAC: 244 MB | Full Artwork: 65 MB | 5% Recovery Info
Label/Cat#: Koch-Schwann # 3-6742-2 | Country/Year: Germany 2000
Genre: Classical | Style: Romantic, Vocal, Lieder

Heinrich August Marschner was the most important composer of German opera between Weber and Wagner. To the extent that he is still remembered, it is largely for his operas Hans Heiling (1833), Der Vampyr (1828), and Der Templer und die Jüdin (1829), extremely popular in his lifetime. Marschner’s ability to depict supernatural horror by musical means is especially evident in the first two operas as well as in some of his ballads, such as "Die Monduhr". Next to his operas, Marschner's most significant musical contribution is to the Lied. The best of his works in this form are comparable with those by Carl Loewe.

Today Heinrich Schütz (1585–1672) is considered the most important and influential German composer of the early baroque era. Even during his lifetime he was accorded the greatest esteem: Wolfgang Kaspar Printz, in a history of music published in 1690, reported that by roughly 1650 Schütz was “held to be the very best of German composers”.