Heinrich Biber: Violin Sonatas — 1681 (2CDs) Few I was beguiled by “Moonrise”

I was beguiled by “Moonrise”

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the anguished dissonances of Shruthi Rajasekar's setting of Psalm 59 and Kerry Andrew's hypnotic improvisation in 'O lux beata Trinitas'

a composer whose radically inventive use of scordatura (retuning the violin)

and Lyon approaches them from a standpoint of sound historical awareness spiced with the odd audacious anachronism

Heinrich Biber: Violin Sonatas — 1681 (2CDs) Few I was beguiled by “Moonrise”SUMMARY TRACK LISTING REVIEWS INFO Following the chart topping success of his Bach Sonatas and Partitas and equal acclaim for his recording of Walthers Scherzi da violino, Bojan ii now turns to Heinrich Ignaz Franz Bibers collection of sonatas from 1681 among the most ambitious and inventive violin works of the seventeenth century. Using unorthodox tuning and bold harmonic invention, Biber expands the instruments capabilities, and his improvisatory