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Biber - Just Biber: Violin Sonatas
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Label: Channel Classics
Cat No: CCS48525
Barcode: 0723385485254
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Chamber
Release Date: 4th July 2025
The pieces are all characterised by their extreme technical difficulty, and especially by their extensive use of scordatura, when individual violin strings are tuned differently from usual. Podger copes with all these challenges quite brilliantly, including imitating the sounds of animals in the Sonata Representivo; she brings an expressive freedom that never takes too many liberties, but remains true to the spirit of the music. 
If you had told me at the start of the week that I’d still be listening to Biber on Friday, my response would have been dusty and unprintable. ... What changes my mind in this album is the slinky, fun-loving playing style of violinist Rachel Podger and the Brecon Baroque period instrumentalists. 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. 
Podger’s wonderful album, pairing her dynamic fiddling with equally colourful playing from members of Brecon Baroque, features five of the eight violin sonatas Biber published in 1681. ... the music is always seductive, notably in the movements when exuberant and florid variations are laid over an unchanging ground bass.
