Nakład wyprzedany, ostatni egzemplarz The 'Rosary' Sonatas are one of the most unusual collections of violin music ever assembled and it is these works on which Biber's present-day fame rests. Calling for a different violin tuning, scordatura, in each of the 15 Sonatas - all played here on the same Amati instrument - the full set is a triumph of Baroque invention and 17th-century virtuoso style. The Gramophone Award-winning partnership of Andrew Manze and Richard Egarr meets this challenge with dazzling results. Andrew Manze plays a violin by Amati, 1700; bow by Gerhard Landwehr, Heemstede, 1988, after an Italian model.
Works:
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Biber: Mystery Sonata No. 1 in D Minor 'The Annunciation'
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Biber: Mystery Sonata No. 2 in A Major 'The Visitation'
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Biber: Mystery Sonata No. 3 in B Minor 'The Nativity'
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Biber: Mystery Sonata No. 4 in D Minor 'The Presentation in the Temple'
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Biber: Mystery Sonata No. 5 in A Major 'The Finding in the Temple'
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Biber: Mystery Sonata No. 6 in C Minor 'The Agony in the Garden'
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Biber: Mystery Sonata No. 7 in F Major 'The Scourging of Jesus'
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Biber: Mystery Sonata No. 8 in B-Flat Major 'The Crowning with Thorns'
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Biber: Mystery Sonata No. 9 in A Minor 'Jesus Carrying the Cross'
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Biber: Mystery Sonata No. 10 in G Minor 'The Crucifixion'
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Biber: Mystery Sonata No. 11 in G Major 'The Resurrection'
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Biber: Mystery Sonata No. 12 in C Major 'The Ascension'
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Biber: Mystery Sonata No. 13 in D Minor 'The Descent of the Holy Ghost'
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Biber: Mystery Sonata No. 14 in D Major 'The Assumption of the Virgin'
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Biber: Mystery Sonata No. 15 in C Major 'The Coronation of the Virgin'
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Biber: Passacaglia for violin solo in G minor (from Mystery Sonatas)