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Salzburger Bachchoir / Salzburger Barockensemble, Howard Arman: Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber - Marienvesper 1693
by C. Michael Bailey
Heinrich Biber (1644-1704) was a Bohemian fiddler with a serious Marian fixation (or at least his supporters had such a fixation). He is best known for a series of 16 violin sonatas, Mysterien Sonaten, Die Rosenkranz-Sonaten (Mystery Sonatas, Rosary Sonatas), dedicated to the Catholic Archbishop of Salzburg, that he composed between 1670 and 1676. Biber--a show-off predating meister-show-off Nicolo Paganini--originally composed these sonatas so devilishly that only he could perform them. Not so his sacred choral music. His Marian Vespers, ...
Continue ReadingAugsburger Domsingknaben / Residenz-Kammerorchester Munchen, Reinhard Kammler: J.S. Bach: Weinachtsoratorium I-III, BWV 248
by C. Michael Bailey
Perhaps only second to Handel's Messiah is J.S. Bach's Weinachtsoratorium, BWV 248, in a list of favorite baroque Christmas offerings. This performance of Bach's Christmas Oratorio took place in audience with and honor of His Holiness, Benedict XVI at the Sistine Chapel, December 4, 2009. A Munchen band, playing for a Munchen Priest, in the center of Catholic Christendom. Bach was a providential Lutheran who composed Sole Deo Gloria, no matter what Church employed him. He took ...
Continue ReadingBundesjazzorchester / Peter Herbolzheimer: BuJazzO, Volume 1
by Jack Bowers
Criticism? Sorry, dear reader; you’ll have to turn elsewhere for that. Here you’ll find only a cordial salute to Germany’s foremost youth ensemble, the Bundesjazzorchester, and its indefatigable director, Peter Herbolzheimer, and an avowal of my good fortune in acquiring, after several years of searching, a copy of BuJazzO, Vol. 1, which has assumed a place of honor in my big–band racks next to Vols. 2 and 3. For that I must thank Peter Ortmann through whose kindness I was ...
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