Sonatas of the Rosary

The sonatas of the Mystery (Rosenkranzsonaten) known under the title of the Sonatas of the Rosary , constitute a cycle of fifteen sonatas for violin and Basse continues and of a Passacaille, composed by the Austrian musician Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber around 1678.

History

The creation date of the cycle is not known, the title page of the collection having disappeared, the musicologists locate it in the years 1678. This collection was dedicated with the archbishop max Gandolph, contrary with Biber use did not make it publish, but offered it to its dedicatee.

Structure

Biber uses of the process of the Scordatura, the characteristic of the collection comes from the way in which the violin is granted differently for each sonata. For the first sonata the Annunciation the instrument is granted in a traditional way to the fifth, but in the other sonatas it is granted in third, quad and to the octave. That to give different colors and temperaments to each sonata, favoured also by the effects of play of the discordées open strings.

Sonatas and the passacaille

The sonatas are distributed by topics in group of five

  • Five merry mysteries

    • Sonata 1 the Annunciation
    • Sonata 2 the Visitation
    • Sonata 3 the Nativity
    • Sonata 4 Presentation of Jesus to the temple
    • Sonata 5 Jesus found with the temple

  • Five painful mysteries

    • Sonata 6 Anguish with the garden of the olive-trees
    • Sonata 7 Scourging
    • Sonata 8 the Crowning of spines
    • Sonata 9 Portement of the cross
    • Sonata 10 the Crucifixion

  • Five glorious mysteries

    • Sonata 11 Resurrection
    • Sonata 12 Ascencion
    • Sonata 13 Pentecost
    • Sonata 14 the Assumption of the Virgin
    • Sonate 15 the Crowning of the Virgin

  • Passacaille in minor ground

    • Adagio
    • Allegro
    • Adagio

Discography of the integrals

  • Susanne Lautenbacher violin (1980) (LP) FSM 93.007

  • violin, Konrad Junghänel (théorbe), Franz Lerndorfer organ and harpsichord (1983) Deutsche Harmonia Mundi
  • violin, Virgin (1989) VCD 7 90838 2
  • Reinhard Goebel violin, Musica Antiqua Köln, Archiv (1990), 431-656-2
  • Gunar Letzbor violin, Together " Ars Antiqua Austria" , (1996) Arcana has 901
  • Marianne Rônez violin, Ensemble " Affetti Musicali" (1998) Winter&Winter, 910.029-2
  • Walter Reiter violin, Cordaria Together, (2001) Signum Records, SIGCD021
  • Odile Edouard violin, Freddy Eichelberger continuo (2001 K617, K617119/2
  • Alice Pierrot, violin, " Together watchers of nuit" , (2003) Alpha 038
  • Veronika Strehlke, violin, Gerhart Darmstadt violoncello, Egino Klepper organ, (2003) Cavalli Records, CCC 245
  • Andrew Manze, violin, Richard Egarr continuo, (2004) Harmonia Mundi France
  • Monica Huggett violin, Unit Ringing (2004) Gaudeamus GAU 350 and GAU 351
  • Pavlo Beznosiuk violin, David Roblou (harpsichord, organ), Paula Chateauneuf (Théorbe) (2004) AVIE AV 0038
  • Patrick Bismuth violin, the Unit Tempesta, (2004) Guy Zag Territories, ZZT040801
  • Rüdiger Lotter violin, Unit Lyriarte (2005) Oehms Classics OC514

External bond

  • Partitions of 1 {{Re}} Sonata and of Passacaille

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