Rosary Sonatas

Album by Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber & Elizabeth Wallfisch & Rosanne Hunt & Linda Kent

Rosary Sonatas is a set of violin sonatas by Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber, composed c. 1676. The works are rooted in the Baroque, featuring virtuosic, programme-based writing for solo violin with extensive scordatura tunings to evoke the Mysteries of the Rosary, and they occupy a distinctive place in the development of violin technique and programme music in the 17th century.

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Disc 1

  1. 1.
    Sonata No. 1 in D minor "Annunciatio": I. Praeludium
    2:39
  2. 2.
    Sonata No. 1 in D minor "Annunciatio": II. Variatio (Aria allegro – Variation – Adagio)
    2:29
  3. 3.
    Sonata No. 1 in D minor "Annunciatio": III. [Finale]
    1:11
  4. 4.
    Sonata No. 2 in A major "Visitatio": I. Sonata
    1:15
  5. 5.
    Sonata No. 2 in A major "Visitatio": II. Allaman[de]
    2:17
  6. 6.
    Sonata No. 2 in A major "Visitatio": III. Presto
    0:45
  7. 7.
    Sonata No. 3 in B minor "Nativitas Domini": I. Sonata
    1:10
  8. 8.
    Sonata No. 3 in B minor "Nativitas Domini": II. Courente – Double
    2:47
  9. 9.
    Sonata No. 3 in B minor "Nativitas Domini": III. Adagio
    1:44
  10. 10.
    Sonata No. 4 in D minor "Presentatio Jesu in Templo": I. Ciacona
    7:05
  11. 11.
    Sonata No. 5 in A major "Inventio Jesu in medio doctorum": I. Praeludium
    0:56
  12. 12.
    Sonata No. 5 in A major "Inventio Jesu in medio doctorum": II. Allama[de]
    1:35
  13. 13.
    Sonata No. 5 in A major "Inventio Jesu in medio doctorum": III. Guigue
    1:17
  14. 14.
    Sonata No. 5 in A major "Inventio Jesu in medio doctorum": IV. Saraban[de] – Double
    2:59
  15. 15.
    Sonata No. 6 in C minor "Agonia in horto": I. Lamento
    6:45
  16. 16.
    Sonata No. 7 in F major "Flagelatio": I. Allemanda – Variatio
    3:19
  17. 17.
    Sonata No. 7 in F major "Flagelatio": II. Sarab[ande] – Variatio
    4:57
  18. 18.
    Sonata No. 8 in B-flat major "Spinea coronatio": I. Adagio – Presto
    2:01
  19. 19.
    Sonata No. 8 in B-flat major "Spinea coronatio": II. Guigue – Double (Presto) – Double II
    3:34
  20. 20.
    Sonata No. 9 in A minor "Baiulatio crucis": I. Sonata
    2:18
  21. 21.
    Sonata No. 9 in A minor "Baiulatio crucis": II. Courente – Double
    3:04
  22. 22.
    Sonata No. 9 in A minor "Baiulatio crucis": III. Finale
    1:43
  23. 23.
    Sonata No. 10 "Crucifixio": I. Praeludium
    1:17
  24. 24.
    Sonata No. 10 "Crucifixio": II. Aria [Herzliches Mitleiden mit dem gecreutzigten Jesu]
    3:05
  25. 25.
    Sonata No. 10 "Crucifixio": III. Variatio
    3:57

Disc 2

  1. 2.
    Sonata No. 11 in G major "Resurrectio": I. Sonata
    2:37
  2. 3.
    Sonata No. 11 in G major "Resurrectio": II. Surrexit Christus hodie
    4:07
  3. 4.
    Sonata No. 11 in G major "Resurrectio": III. Adagio
    1:20
  4. 5.
    Sonata No. 12 in C major "Ascensio": I. Intrada
    0:25
  5. 6.
    Sonata No. 12 in C major "Ascensio": II. Aria Tubicinum
    1:09
  6. 7.
    Sonata No. 12 in C major "Ascensio": III. Allamanda
    1:57
  7. 8.
    Sonata No. 12 in C major "Ascensio": IV. Courente – Double
    2:49
  8. 9.
    Sonata No. 13 in D minor "Pentecostes": I. Sonata
    2:39
  9. 10.
    Sonata No. 13 in D minor "Pentecostes": II. Gavott
    1:21
  10. 11.
    Sonata No. 13 in D minor "Pentecostes": III. Gigue
    1:30
  11. 12.
    Sonata No. 13 in D minor "Pentecostes": IV. Sarabanda
    1:24
  12. 13.
    Sonata No. 14 in D major "Assumptio Beatae Mariae Virginis": I. [Sonata]
    2:41
  13. 14.
    Sonata No. 14 in D major "Assumptio Beatae Mariae Virginis": II. Aria – Aria [II] – Guigue
    7:05
  14. 15.
    Sonata No. 15 in C major "Coronatio Beatae Mariae Virginis": I. Sonata
    1:52
  15. 16.
    Sonata No. 15 in C major "Coronatio Beatae Mariae Virginis": II. Aria
    4:41
  16. 17.
    Sonata No. 15 in C major "Coronatio Beatae Mariae Virginis": III. Canzon – Sarabanda
    3:48
  17. 18.
    Sonata No. 16 in G minor: I. Passagalia for solo violin
    8:56

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