Biber/ Bonet/ Musica Alchemica - Violin SonatasHeinrich Ignaz Franz Biber is the most dazzling figure among the violin virtuosos of the 17th century, comparable to a Paganini in the 19th, even though Biber did not travel around and spent most of his life permanently employed as a Kapellmeister in Salzburg. Biber's pieces are bursting with virtuoso elements, new techniques, bizarreness and endless ingenuity the stylus phantasticus at the height of the age. His collection of violin sonatas, printed

and the writing is buoyant and soulful to match

playing adventurous arrangements of tunes from popular 1960's movie musicals including Finian's Rainbow

The German-Argentine new music composer Carlos Veerhoff (b

Featured on this album is the premiere recording of his Jules Leger Prize-winning masterpiece Zwei Lieder nach Rilke (featuring soprano Laura Hynes)

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musicians just have to play it well

I kinda flit around between styles

In the past few years Xu have adjudicated in many major international piano competitions

has the power to reverse the effects of time

becoming so representativeof who we think we are before they're ultimately left behind

Of particular interest was her fascination with the controversial Argentinian actress and singer

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