Release Date: August 18, 2023
UPC: 615499526964
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Catalog Number: LM263
Lovers and Mourners: Variations and Sonatas from 17th-century Germany, offers a comprehensive glimpse into the lives of virtuoso-composer performers Johann Jakob Walther, Heinrich Biber, and Johann Georg Pisendel. The Composers featured on Lovers and Mourners drew upon the “stylus phantasticus,” a 17th-century Italian idiom whose features were marked by jagged shifts of affect and intended to display the player’s technical command and expressive abilities. Bandy nimbly guides the listener through a labyrinth of variation sets and themes, simultaneously reproducing faithful interpretations of the music while injecting his own unique touch. Lovers and Mourners boasts a brief, yet intense survey of one of the richest chapters in the history of the virtuoso composer-performer.
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Zweistimmigen Sonaten und Suiten: Sonata in D Major
for Violin, Viola da Gamba, and Continuo
Release Date: July 7, 2023
UPC: 3191684102498
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Catalog Number: LM2037
Dietrich Becker’s Sonata in D Major, whose variations on a ground bass resemble that of Pachelbel’s famous Canon in D, provides an affirming final gesture and bookends the upcoming album Lovers and Mourners: Variations and Sonatas from 17th-century Germany, in a beautifully melancholic fashion. Here, the viola da gamba is no mere accompanist but an equal partner to the violin. The two instruments trade ideas and ultimately come together in joyful concord.