Liliana Bernardi

H.I.F. Biber and J.J. Vilsmaÿr also appeared in the recent past a bit secluded and, let’s face it, they had been confined somehow to the shadows by all of us, dazzled by the marvelous expansion of musical art from the end of the 18th century throughout the 19th century with unimaginable peaks and then by the persistent search for new “avenidas” in the 1900s to the present day.

People who are passionate about music will soon have to carry out careful investigations in the ancient districts of the Austrian musical baroque, because these indeed seem to present themselves today as parts of a land rich in forgotten music.

People who are passionate about music will soon have to carry out careful investigations in the ancient districts of the Austrian musical baroque, because these indeed seem to present themselves today as parts of a land rich in forgotten music. But we want to be quite close to them. With this recording we in fact enter again the period of the late 17th and early 18th centuries and our initiative is particularly interesting with regard to the graceful paths of Austrian violinism. Many have already come to love an important author of that time such as the great von Biber (1644-1704) quoted in the previous album (Austrian Baroque for violin solo) with sequence of his Rosary. But then we proceeded to the discovery of Johann Vilsmayr, who endowed us with his crystal-clear music, which rises towards high horizons.