简介:
Johann Kuhnau, Bach’s predecessor at Leipzig, composed biblical sonatas depicting stories – such as David and Goliath – in abstract, worldless, keyboard pieces. Biber’s Mystery Sonatas are quite different because they form part of a linked meditation on the life of Jesus and therefore present remarkable potential for the interpreter as a kind of ‘Evangelist’. Uniquely, these celebrated works employ fourteen different scordatura tunings where the altered intervals on the four strings create extraordinarily different ‘sound worlds’ to describe each event. Singers aside, performers are rarely presented with such heady subject matter to motivate their interpretations, apart from the usual movement titles indicating tempi, pulse and character.Some pieces may have meaningful titles with a dedication, perhaps to another composer or friend, and we also come across specific instructions to ‘imitate’ various animals. For instance, Biber’s Battalia – a work which employs fashionable programmatic elements in the best traditions of a sonata rappresentativa) – portrays both the battle and the lament for the dead in a fashion which requires no further explanation. Likewise, in the case of C.P.E. Bach’s trio sonata Sanguineus and Melancholicus, a whole scene is described with meticulous and detailed instructions for expression, ranging from stubbornness and anger to laughter and ridicule, and even irony!
曲目:
1-1 Rosary Sonata #1 In D Minor, “The Annunciation” 6:04
1-2 Rosary Sonata #2 In A, “The Visitation” 5:39
1-3 Rosary Sonata #3 In B Minor, “The Nativity” 7:33
1-4 Rosary Sonata #4 In D Minor, “The Presentation In The Temple” 8:20
1-5 Rosary Sonata #5 In A, “The Finding In The Temple” 7:24
1-6 Rosary Sonata #6 In C Minor, “The Agony In The Garden” 9:14
1-7 Rosary Sonata #7 In F, “The Scourging” 9:03
1-8 Rosary Sonata #8 In B Flat, “The Crowning With Thorns” 7:12
2-1 Rosary Sonata #9 In A Minor, “The Carrying Of The Cross” 8:00
2-2 Rosary Sonata #10 In G Minor, “The Crucifixion” 9:15
2-3 Rosary Sonata #11 In G, “The Resurrection” 8:04
2-4 Rosary Sonata #12 In C, “The Ascension” 7:26
2-5 Rosary Sonata #13 In D Minor, “The Descent Of The Holy Ghost” 8:15
2-6 Rosary Sonata #14 In D, “The Assumption Of The Blessed Virgin” 10:31
2-7 Rosary Sonata #15 In C, “The Coronation Of The Blessed Virgin” 12:25
2-8 Passacaglia In G Minor, “Guardian Angel” 试听: