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Rachel Podger – one of the finest of today’s Baroque violinists – takes up the challenge posed by Biber’s 1681 sonata collection with élan. Her affinity with the material allows a free and spontaneous delivery – a flexibility her continuo partners from Brecon Baroque follow to the dot. They astutely accompany or provide the rhythmic story to fortify the bravura solo passages, which the historian Charles Burney described as ‘the most difficult and the most fanciful of any music’.Adding to the mix of string techniques is a bow tremolo which bends the tonal orbit of held notes. Biber’s gift for generating novel soundworlds is also abetted by scordatura technique, tuning the highest string down a tone in the Sixth Sonata (C143). But the fabric of the sonatas is held together by epeating cells of material – the time-honoured device of a ground bass, and over this, the violin is able to defy gravity with exceptional feats of dexterity.The First A major Sonata, C138 is particularly captivating. The stage curtain rises to a held pedal note with lovely embellishments and drones |
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