Biber: Battalia / Locke: The Tempest / Zelenka: Fanfare / Il Giardino Armonico

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Although Biber's Battalia and Matthew Locke's The Tempest get co-billing here, Jan Dismas Zelenka's Fanfare in D Major, which opens the CD with a burst of brass from the Trumpet Consort of Innsbruck, is far more than a coupling or filler. The entire CD, most of which is played by Milan's foremost young Baroque ensemble, Il Giardino Armonico, was planned as a dramatic course, and Zelenka's Fanfare is key to the internal drama. Biber's Battalia follows as a 10-minute episode amid others, with its opening sonata making a sort of subfanfare for a catalog of styles that maximize Baroque contrasts and violin-laden vividness. An anonymously composed 20-second "Tune for the Woodlark" interjects a bucolic touch, and Giardino Armonico's Enrico Onofri composes a two-minute Ricercare to segue into Biber's telescoped Partia VII in C Minor, which dolorously indulges shape-shifting, blood-warm viola d'amores, and bass. Locke's emotionally ambivalent music for The Tempest comprises the CD's final 20 minutes, tackling dramatic complexity with jumping violin colors and a bass grounding that keeps the floor moving. --Andrew Bartlett

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Biber: Battalia / Locke: The Tempest / Zelenka: Fanfare / Il Giardino Armonico
Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
  • breathing new life into old works
  • Wonderful recording
  • Unique master work, recommended for high sensibility people
  • Great recording and Great performance
 Biber: Battalia / Locke: The Tempest / Zelenka: Fanfare / Il Giardino Armonico
Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber , Matthew Locke , Jan Dismas Zelenka , and Il Giardino Armonico
Manufacturer: Teldec
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00000HZOC
Release Date: 1999-02-02

Tracks:

  1. Zelenka: Fanfare In D Major: Jan Dismas Zelenka - Fanfare in D major
  2. Zelenka: Fanfare In D Major: Von Biber : Battalia: Sonata: Allegro
  3. Zelenka: Fanfare In D Major: Battalia: Die liederliche Gesellsschaft von allerley Humor
  4. Zelenka: Fanfare In D Major: Battalia: Presto
  5. Zelenka: Fanfare In D Major: Battalia: The march (violin I solo)
  6. Zelenka: Fanfare In D Major: Battalia: Presto
  7. Zelenka: Fanfare In D Major: Battalia: Aria
  8. Zelenka: Fanfare In D Major: Battalia: The battle
  9. Zelenka: Fanfare In D Major: Battalia: Lamento der Verwundten Musquetirer (Adagio)
  10. Zelenka: Fanfare In D Major: Passacaglia in C minor
  11. Zelenka: Fanfare In D Major: Tune for the woodlark (anonymous)
  12. Zelenka: Fanfare In D Major: Sonata Violino solo representativa: Allegro
  13. Zelenka: Fanfare In D Major: Sonata Violino solo representativa: The nightingale
  14. Zelenka: Fanfare In D Major: Sonata Violino solo representativa: The cuckoo
  15. Zelenka: Fanfare In D Major: Sonata Violino solo representativa: The frog
  16. Zelenka: Fanfare In D Major: Sonata Violino solo representativa: Adagio
  17. Zelenka: Fanfare In D Major: Sonata Violino solo representativa: The hen & the cock
  18. Zelenka: Fanfare In D Major: Sonata Violino solo representativa: Presto
  19. Zelenka: Fanfare In D Major: Sonata Violino solo representativa: Adagio: The quail
  20. Zelenka: Fanfare In D Major: Sonata Violino solo representativa: The cat
  21. Zelenka: Fanfare In D Major: Sonata Violino solo representativa: The musketeers' march
  22. Zelenka: Fanfare In D Major: Sonata Violino solo representativa: Allamande
  23. Zelenka: Fanfare In D Major: Ricercare (composed by Enrico Onofri)
  24. Zelenka: Fanfare In D Major: Partita VII in C minor: Praeludium
  25. Zelenka: Fanfare In D Major: Partita VII in C minor: Allamande
  26. Zelenka: Fanfare In D Major: Partita VII in C minor: Sarabande
  27. Zelenka: Fanfare In D Major: Partita VII in C minor: Gigue: Presto
  28. Zelenka: Fanfare In D Major: Partita VII in C minor: Aria
  29. Zelenka: Fanfare In D Major: Partita VII in C minor: Trezza
  30. Zelenka: Fanfare In D Major: Partita VII in C minor: Arietta variata
  31. Zelenka: Fanfare In D Major: Matthew Locke - Canon 4 in 2
  32. Zelenka: Fanfare In D Major: Music for The Tempest: Introduction
  33. Zelenka: Fanfare In D Major: Music for The Tempest: Galliard
  34. Zelenka: Fanfare In D Major: Music for The Tempest: Gavot
  35. Zelenka: Fanfare In D Major: Music for The Tempest: Sarabrand
  36. Zelenka: Fanfare In D Major: Music for The Tempest: Lilk
  37. Zelenka: Fanfare In D Major: Music for The Tempest: Curtain Tune
  38. Zelenka: Fanfare In D Major: Music for The Tempest: First act tune: Rustick Air
  39. Zelenka: Fanfare In D Major: Music for The Tempest: Second act tune: Minoit
  40. Zelenka: Fanfare In D Major: Music for The Tempest: Third act tune: Corant
  41. Zelenka: Fanfare In D Major: Music for The Tempest: Fourth act tune: A Martial Jigge
  42. Zelenka: Fanfare In D Major: Music for The Tempest: Conclusion: A Canon 4 in 2

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Although Biber's Battalia and Matthew Locke's The Tempest get co-billing here, Jan Dismas Zelenka's Fanfare in D Major, which opens the CD with a burst of brass from the Trumpet Consort of Innsbruck, is far more than a coupling or filler. The entire CD, most of which is played by Milan's foremost young Baroque ensemble, Il Giardino Armonico, was planned as a dramatic course, and Zelenka's Fanfare is key to the internal drama. Biber's Battalia follows as a 10-minute episode amid others, with its opening sonata making a sort of subfanfare for a catalog of styles that maximize Baroque contrasts and violin-laden vividness. An anonymously composed 20-second "Tune for the Woodlark" interjects a bucolic touch, and Giardino Armonico's Enrico Onofri composes a two-minute Ricercare to segue into Biber's telescoped Partia VII in C Minor, which dolorously indulges shape-shifting, blood-warm viola d'amores, and bass. Locke's emotionally ambivalent music for The Tempest comprises the CD's final 20 minutes, tackling dramatic complexity with jumping violin colors and a bass grounding that keeps the floor moving. --Andrew Bartlett

Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars breathing new life into old works.......2001-02-18

Il Giardino Armonico are, by now, renowned for their flashy, energetic approach to baroque music, and it is a well-deserved label. Two of these pieces have been better recorded elsewhere, however. Andrew Manze's recording of "Die Katz" on Harmonia Mundi is far superior to Onofri's rendition. Manze captures the programmatic essence of this solo violin sonata, glissandos cleverly mimicking the cat's meow. Onofri rushes through it in another show of his talent that, sadly, lacks consideration. Listen to the two different versions and you'll hear what I mean.

The Battalia a 10, an extraordinary and marvelous work from 1673, is oddly doctored up by Il Giardino Armonico. The joyous presto following "the dissolute revels of the musketeers" (a dissonant cacophony of folk songs) is cut tragically short. The next section, "the march," features an excellent fife and drum imitation by the violin and bass (with paper in the strings to make it buzz). The group chose to record this part as if they are marching by the listener, the results of which mean reduced clarity where it would otherwise be most welcome. I appreciate the motivations behind this but the result is less than pleasing. For a superior rendition of the Battalia look for Philip Pickett and the New London Consort's recording of Biber's Requiem in F minor on L'Oiseau-Lyre. This is one of my favorie pieces of music and while I love Il Giardino Armonico they don't give it the reading it deserves.

On the plus side, there's a lot of other great music here, including the Partita for two violas d'amore which sounds incredible. Here the group surpasses Jeanne Lamon's Tafelmusik, who don't come anywhere near Il Giardino Armonico's rich texture of sound with their Sony release. Biber still has a way to go in becoming a big name in the baroque repertoire, but his music is amazing and this CD brings together some of the best of it. I highly recommend the Pickett and Manze CD's, but this is a good recording overall, especially if you've never heard this composer or ensemble before. There is much life in this music, still.

5 out of 5 stars Wonderful recording.......2000-02-19

Thuis recording is an absolutly fantastic buy, the freshness, and vitality which il giradino armonico employ in their interpretation is not only extreemly exciting to listen to, but also works very very well, i think that the hightlight of the whole cd is the sonata representativa, which has a freshness and gypsy-style of violin playing that I have never heard before. A truly excellant recording.

5 out of 5 stars Unique master work, recommended for high sensibility people.......1999-09-17

If you are one of those with an extremely sensitive spirit, you should enjoy this master work. You'll never be closer to God.

5 out of 5 stars Great recording and Great performance.......1999-08-14

There are many baroque specialists, but Il Giardino Armonico is special among them. Their interpretation is aggresive or unfamiliar when you listen to this recording first. As you listen to it repeatedly, you can know that their performance is great and gives us new point of this work

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