BIBER: Virtuoso in the Making - Ricordo

Baroque ensemble Ricordo's debut album with Linn Records which received rave reviews.

Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber's music is amazingly different from the more commonly heard baroque style, definitely far more fanciful. The nature of his compositions is essentially extreme improvisation on paper, free and unpredictable explorations of themes or just abstract fantasies

Ricordo play their programmes entirely from memory in order to free themselves from the printed page and to enhance communication between themselves and the audience. "Ricordo" is the Italian word for "Memory".

Pastorella
05:05

Sonata in E Major - Adagio
04:48

Sonata in E Major - Aria & Variation: Adagio
06:32

Sonata à 3, per 2 Violini e Trombone
06:34

Fantasia
04:36

Fantasia - Gigue & Variation: Minuet
02:14

Passacaglia for solo lute
07:34

Pastorella à 2 Violini
04:02

Sonata in C Minor
12:51

Sonata in A Major - Adagio/Presto
05:32

Sonata in A Major - Aria e Variation
07:25