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Just Biber

Rachel Podger and Brecon Baroque Illuminate Biber’s Heavenly Virtuosity in DSD Splendor.

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Artists Rachel Podger, Brecon Baroque

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2025 Album of the Year Award - Chamber Music

Following up her critically acclaimed recording of Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber's Rosary Sonatas (also available at NativeDSD), violinist and musical director Rachel Podger leads Brecon Baroque on Just Biber, an album of Sonatas from Biber's 1681 collection Sonatæ Violino Solo and his theatrical Sonata Representivo. This is a DSD Exclusive, Not Available on SACD album, It is available in Stereo and 5 Channel Surround Sound DSD 256, DSD 128 and DSD 64 plus Stereo DSD 512 only at NativeDSD. These works are extremely virtuosic with extensive multiple stopping and dazzling passages of stylus fantasticus. In Biber’s time, harmony was something cosmic, vibrating in a God-given resonance between human, instrumental and celestial bodies. Dedicated to Archbishop Maximilian Gandolf, the sonatas were not only designed to delight, but also potentially to balm and heal; Biber described the sonatas as a kind of prayer for the Archbishop’s longevity and good health. Rachel Podger, Violin & Musical Director Brecon Baroque

Tracklist

Total time: 01:09:46

1. Violin Sonata No. 5 in E Minor, C. 142: I. [...]

02:53

2. Violin Sonata No. 5 in E Minor, C. 142: II. Variatio - Allegro

03:56

3. Violin Sonata No. 5 in E Minor, C. 142: III. Presto

01:42

4. Violin Sonata No. 5 in E Minor, C. 142: IV. Aria - Variations

03:19

5. Violin Sonata No. 1 in A Major, C. 138: I. [...]

01:28

6. Violin Sonata No. 1 in A Major, C. 138: II. Adagio

01:56

7. Violin Sonata No. 1 in A Major, C. 138: III. [...]

00:45

8. Violin Sonata No. 1 in A Major, C. 138: IV. Variatio

05:28

9. Violin Sonata No. 1 in A Major, C. 138: V. Finale

01:58

10. Violin Sonata No. 2 in D Minor, C. 139: I. [...]

01:15

11. Violin Sonata No. 2 in D Minor, C. 139: II. Aria

00:53

12. Violin Sonata No. 2 in D Minor, C. 139: III. Variatio

02:40

13. Violin Sonata No. 2 in D Minor, C. 139: IV. Adagio

01:03

14. Violin Sonata No. 2 in D Minor, C. 139: V. [...]

01:34

15. Violin Sonata No. 2 in D Minor, C. 139: VI. Finale

01:12

16. Violin Sonata violino solo representativa in A Major, C. 146: I. Allegro

02:08

17. Violin Sonata violino solo representativa in A Major, C. 146: II. Die Nachtigal

01:53

18. Violin Sonata violino solo representativa in A Major, C. 146: III. Der Cu Cu

00:46

19. Violin Sonata violino solo representativa in A Major, C. 146: IV. Der Fresch

01:22

20. Violin Sonata violino solo representativa in A Major, C. 146: V. Die Henne und der Hann

00:40

21. Violin Sonata violino solo representativa in A Major, C. 146: VI. Die Vachtel

01:07

22. Violin Sonata violino solo representativa in A Major, C. 146: VII. Die Katz

00:53

23. Violin Sonata violino solo representativa in A Major, C. 146: VIII. Musquetier Mars

01:32

24. Violin Sonata violino solo representativa in A Major, C. 146: IX. Allamande

02:18

25. Violin Sonata No. 6 in C Minor, C. 143: I. [...]

01:04

26. Violin Sonata No. 6 in C Minor, C. 143: II. Passacaglia

04:35

27. Violin Sonata No. 6 in C Minor, C. 143: III. [...] - Adagio

01:58

28. Violin Sonata No. 6 in C Minor, C. 143: IV. Gavotta

01:37

29. Violin Sonata No. 6 in C Minor, C. 143: V. Adagio - Allegro - Adagio

03:20

30. Violin Sonata No. 3 in F Major, C. 140: I. Adagio - Presto

01:37

31. Violin Sonata No. 3 in F Major, C. 140: II. Aria - Variatio

02:40

32. Violin Sonata No. 3 in F Major, C. 140: III. Presto - Adagio

00:58

33. Violin Sonata No. 3 in F Major, C. 140: IV. Allegro

02:15

34. Violin Sonata No. 3 in F Major, C. 140: V. Variatio

05:01

Additional Information

Label

Channel Classics

SKU

CCS48525

Qualities

DSD 128, DSD 256, DSD 64, DSD 512, DXD 24 Bit, DXD 32 Bit

Channels

2ch Stereo, 5ch Surround, 2ch Stereo & 5ch Surround

Artists

Rachel Podger, Brecon Baroque

Composers

Biber

Genres

Classical

Original Recording Format

DSD 256

Recording Location

St. Peter’s Church, Great Haseley (United Kingdom) in December 2024

Recording Engineer

Jared Sacks

Release Date

July 01, 2025

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Reviews

myscena.org

Norman Lebrecht

I’m guessing these musicians play standing up because there is a bounciness to the six sonatas that I’ve not heard before in Biber. It’s fresh, athletic, teasing and a bit gravelly here and there to sustain my attention between smoothie chords. Podger is totally on her toes, a challenging leader with a mind of her own.

Source: myscena.org

Positive Feedback

Rushton Paul

Such fun! This is not the staid music of ancient times that some think Baroque music to be. This is pure sly humor in the form of musical entertainment.
This is an album to be enjoyed thoroughly. One to which you may return, and return again, to find new details, new passages, that utterly delight. I’m now on my third listening. I know I shall return often.
And the sound quality? Eminently that for which I’ve come to love the recordings of Jared Sacks. It is so natural sounding, so filled with life, so completely as if I have these marvelous artists with me in my listening room, and I am the quiet observer privileged to listen in to their live performance.

Source: www.nativedsd.com

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