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Salzburger Bachchoir / Salzburger Barockensemble, Howard Arman: Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber - Marienvesper 1693

Read "Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber - Marienvesper 1693" reviewed 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 ...

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Augsburger Domsingknaben / Residenz-Kammerorchester Munchen, Reinhard Kammler: J.S. Bach: Weinachtsoratorium I-III, BWV 248

Read "J.S. Bach: Weinachtsoratorium I-III, BWV 248" reviewed 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 ...

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BuJazzO, Volume 1

Label: Ars Musici
Released: 1999

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Bundesjazzorchester / Peter Herbolzheimer: BuJazzO, Volume 1

Read "BuJazzO, Volume 1" reviewed 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 ...


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