Bach and Biber: EML 16 July

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Simon Heighes presents highlights of a concert given by the early music ensemble NeoBarock at this year's Schwetzingen Festival. Music for two violins features, including a trio sonata arrangement of Bach's Double Violin Concerto.

Biber: Partita IV from 'Harmonia Artificiosa-ariosa'
Bach: Trio Sonata in G minor, BWV.1029 (arr Maren Ries from viola da gamba sonata)
attrib Handel: Trio Sonata in E flat
Bach arr Volker Möller: Sonata in D minor for Two Violins, BWV.1043
Biber: Ciacona, from 'Pars III'

NeoBarock.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08xywjc

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Bach and Biber arranged for / as trio sonatas. As Simon Heighes says of the Bach ‘it (the original?) might have sounded like this’. I quite enjoyed it although I was a bit startled by the first Biber.