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Bohemian-Austrian composer and violinist (1644–1704)
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2024-02-23 18:56:49
Queen Elizabeth Hall, LondonThe violinist leads an unsparing assault of pieces from Biber’s dissonant Battalia à 10 to Ustvolskaya’s Composition No 2 as sirens bellow and metronomes tick down our existence ‘This piece of theatre without a plot is designed as an assault on our senses,” violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaja writes of Dies Irae, a complex multimedia piece of her own devising, part concert, part installation, that aims to combine a ferocious enactment of the day of judgment with fierce invective against war and the climate crisis as instruments of our own potential self-destruction. It was first heard at the Lucerne festival in 2017. Kopatchinskaja has performed it with multiple ensembles since, including the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, in Glasgow, during Cop26 in 2021. For the London premiere her collaborators were the Aurora Orchestra and Aurora Voices, whose intensity match Kopatchinskaja’s uncompromising vision and the almost dogged commitment of her playing.It’s […]
2024-01-05 00:00:00
HIF Biber - Harmonia Artificioso-Ariosa
Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber (1644-1704)Harmonia Artificioso-AriosaLes Passions de l'AmeMeret Lüthi - directionRecorded 2013, 2016, 2018, 2019Label: DHM 19439855872 [2CD]Download 1fichier pixel workupload
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2024-01-01 21:24:25
Soprano Sonja Tengblad and trumpeter Justin Bland brightened BB’s celebratory evening of Handel, Boyce, Biber, and Bach at GBH’s Calderwood Studio last night. [] The post appeared first on The Boston Musical Intelligencer.
2023-07-21 02:35:28
This Sunday, Los Angeles-area listeners will have a rare chance to hear Heinrich Biber's complete Rosary Sonatas, in the hands of the composer-violinist Andrew McIntosh. Maxine Eilander, on Baroque harp, and Ian Pritchard, on organ and harpsichord, will join him....
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