Birth of the Strings: Amati; Stainer, Stradivari / Julius Berger, cello; Rebekka Hartmann, violini

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Album Summary

Performers

• Julius Berger (Cello)
• Rebekka Hartmann (Violin)

Composers

• Alessandro Scarlatti (1660 - 1725)
• Luigi Boccherini (1743 - 1805)
• Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber (1644 - 1704)
• Nicola Matteis (circa 1650 - after 1709)
• Unspecified
• Giovanni Battiste Degli Antoni (1660 - 1696)
• Giovanni Battista Sammartini (circa 1700 - 1775)
• Franz Joseph Haydn (1732 - 1809)
• Johann Georg Pisendel (1687 - 1755)
• Louis-Gabriel Guillemain (1705 - 1770)
• Domenico Gabrielli (1651 - 1690)
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 - 1791)
• Johann Paul von Westhoff (1656 - 1705)
• Francesco Geminiani (1687 - 1762)
• Friedrich Wilhelm Rust (1739 - 1796)

Notes & Reviews:

The invention of the violin, violoncello, viola, and later the double may arguably be equated with the birth of classical music as we know it today. These instruments irrevocably set out on their triumphal march through the world of music and have stayed the essence of classical music ever since then. This CD box contains an idea as ambitious as it is bafflingly simple: enabling the listener to hear an instrument that is the oldest of its kind playing the oldest known solo repertoire for that instrument. Includes: Birth of the Cello, Birth of the String Quartet, and Birth of the Violin.

Chicago Tribune
The concept is so simple that you wonder why nobody thought of it before: Some of the oldest-known string repertory from the Baroque and Classical eras is played on some of the oldest instruments of their kind. One disc is devoted to first recordings of violin works played by Rebekka Hartmann on historic Amati and Stradivari violins. A second offers Italian Baroque ricercari performed by Julius Berger on a 1566 Amati cello. The third, by the casalQuartett, examines the birth of the string quartet through works by Haydn, Mozart and their contemporaries. Handsome packaging and recorded sound do credit to the stylish performances.

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Degli Antoni, Giovanni B. : Ricercata prima for cello, Op. 1/1

• Performer: Julius Berger (Cello)
• Notes: Alte Kirche Boswil (2007-05-28_2007-05-30&2007-)
• Running Time: 2 min. 17 sec.
• Period Time: Baroque

Degli Antoni, Giovanni B. : Ricercata seconda for cello, Op. 1/2

• Performer: Julius Berger (Cello)
• Notes: Alte Kirche Boswil (2007-05-28_2007-05-30&2007-)
• Running Time: 4 min. 38 sec.
• Period Time: Baroque

Degli Antoni, Giovanni B. : Ricercar no 3 in F major, for cello

• Performer: Julius Berger (Cello)
• Notes: Alte Kirche Boswil (2007-05-28_2007-05-30&2007-)
• Running Time: 2 min. 29 sec.
• Period Time: Baroque

Degli Antoni, Giovanni B. : Ricercata quarta for cello, Op. 1/4

• Performer: Julius Berger (Cello)
• Notes: Alte Kirche Boswil (2007-05-28_2007-05-30&2007-)
• Running Time: 3 min. 41 sec.
• Period Time: Baroque

Degli Antoni, Giovanni B. : Ricercata quinta for cello, Op. 1/5

• Performer: Julius Berger (Cello)
• Notes: Alte Kirche Boswil (2007-05-28_2007-05-30&2007-)
• Running Time: 4 min. 26 sec.
• Period Time: Baroque

Degli Antoni, Giovanni B. : Ricercata sesta for cello, Op. 1/6

• Performer: Julius Berger (Cello)
• Notes: Alte Kirche Boswil (2007-05-28_2007-05-30&2007-)
• Running Time: 5 min. 30 sec.
• Period Time: Baroque

Degli Antoni, Giovanni B. : Ricercata settima for cello, Op. 1/7

• Performer: Julius Berger (Cello)
• Notes: Alte Kirche Boswil (2007-05-28_2007-05-30&2007-)
• Running Time: 3 min. 46 sec.
• Period Time: Baroque

Degli Antoni, Giovanni B. : Ricercata ottava for cello, Op. 1/8

• Performer: Julius Berger (Cello)
• Notes: Alte Kirche Boswil (2007-05-28_2007-05-30&2007-)
• Running Time: 4 min. 10 sec.
• Period Time: Baroque

Degli Antoni, Giovanni B. : Ricercata nona for cello, Op. 1/9

• Performer: Julius Berger (Cello)
• Notes: Alte Kirche Boswil (2007-05-28_2007-05-30&2007-)
• Running Time: 2 min. 31 sec.
• Period Time: Baroque

Degli Antoni, Giovanni B. : Ricercar no 10 in G minor, for cello

• Performer: Julius Berger (Cello)
• Notes: Alte Kirche Boswil (2007-05-28_2007-05-30&2007-)
• Running Time: 4 min. sec.
• Period Time: Baroque

Degli Antoni, Giovanni B. : Ricercata undecima for cello, Op. 1/11

• Performer: Julius Berger (Cello)
• Notes: Alte Kirche Boswil (2007-05-28_2007-05-30&2007-)
• Running Time: 3 min. 15 sec.
• Period Time: Baroque

Degli Antoni, Giovanni B. : Ricercata duodecima for cello, Op. 1/12

• Performer: Julius Berger (Cello)
• Notes: Alte Kirche Boswil (2007-05-28_2007-05-30&2007-)
• Running Time: 4 min. 46 sec.
• Period Time: Baroque

Gabrielli, Domenico : Ricercar for cello solo no 1 in G minor

• Performer: Julius Berger (Cello)
• Notes: Alte Kirche Boswil (2007-05-28_2007-05-30&2007-)
• Running Time: 2 min. 20 sec.
• Period Time: Baroque

Gabrielli, Domenico : Ricercar for cello solo no 2 in A minor

• Performer: Julius Berger (Cello)
• Notes: Alte Kirche Boswil (2007-05-28_2007-05-30&2007-)
• Running Time: 7 min. 39 sec.
• Period Time: Baroque

Gabrielli, Domenico : Ricercar for cello solo no 3 in D major

• Performer: Julius Berger (Cello)
• Notes: Alte Kirche Boswil (2007-05-28_2007-05-30&2007-)
• Running Time: 3 min. 5 sec.
• Period Time: Baroque

Gabrielli, Domenico : Ricercar for cello solo no 4 in E flat major

• Performer: Julius Berger (Cello)
• Notes: Alte Kirche Boswil (2007-05-28_2007-05-30&2007-)
• Running Time: 5 min. 21 sec.
• Period Time: Baroque

Gabrielli, Domenico : Ricercar for cello solo no 5 in C major

• Performer: Julius Berger (Cello)
• Notes: Alte Kirche Boswil (2007-05-28_2007-05-30&2007-)
• Running Time: 1 min. 51 sec.
• Period Time: Baroque

Gabrielli, Domenico : Ricercar for cello solo no 6 in G major

• Performer: Julius Berger (Cello)
• Notes: Alte Kirche Boswil (2007-05-28_2007-05-30&2007-)
• Running Time: 3 min. 5 sec.
• Period Time: Baroque

Gabrielli, Domenico : Ricercar for cello solo no 7 in D minor

• Performer: Julius Berger (Cello)
• Notes: Alte Kirche Boswil (2007-05-28_2007-05-30&2007-)
• Running Time: 5 min. 32 sec.
• Period Time: Baroque
• Written: 16th Century

Scarlatti, Alessandro : Sonate a quattro for string quartet no 4 in D minor ("Quartet Sonata")

• Running Time: 2 min. sec.
• Period Time: Baroque
• Form: Chamber Music

Sammartini, Giovanni Battista : Symphony for 2 violins, viola & bass in G major, J-C 39

• Running Time: 4 min. 4 sec.
• Period Time: Classical
• Form: Orchestral

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus : Quartet for Strings no 1 in G major ("Lodi"), K. 80 (K. 73f)

• Notes: Composition written: 1770.
• Running Time: 15 min. 28 sec.
• Period Time: Classical
• Written: 1770

Boccherini, Luigi : Quartet for Strings in C minor, G. 159 (Op. 2/1)

• Running Time: 19 min. 17 sec.
• Period Time: Classical
• Form: Chamber Music
• Written: 1761

Haydn, Franz Joseph : Quartet for Strings in D minor, Op. 9 no 4/H 3 no 22

• Running Time: 17 min. 29 sec.
• Period Time: Classical
• Form: Chamber Music
• Written: ?1769-70

Westhoff, Johann Paul von : Suite for Violin solo no 2 in A major

• Performer: Rebekka Hartmann (Violin)
• Notes: Holzmühle, Seeshaupt (04/11/2011-04/13/2011)
• Running Time: 8 min. 12 sec.
• Period Time: Baroque
• Written: 1697

Biber, Heinrich Ignaz : Passacaglia for Violin solo in G minor

• Performer: Rebekka Hartmann (Violin)
• Notes: Holzmühle, Seeshaupt (04/11/2011-04/13/2011)
• Running Time: 9 min. 2 sec.
• Period Time: Baroque
• Written: circa 1676

Pisendel, Johann Georg : Sonata for Violin Solo in A minor

• Performer: Rebekka Hartmann (Violin)
• Notes: Holzmühle, Seeshaupt (04/11/2011-04/13/2011)
• Running Time: 5 min. 39 sec.
• Period Time: Baroque

Geminiani, Francesco : Art of Playing the Violin :: Etüde

• Performer: Rebekka Hartmann (Violin)
• Notes: Holzmühle, Seeshaupt (04/11/2011-04/13/2011)
• Running Time: 1 min. 43 sec.
• Period Time: Baroque
• Written: 1751

Matteis, Nicola : Fantasia for violin

• Performer: Rebekka Hartmann (Violin)
• Notes: Holzmühle, Seeshaupt (04/11/2011-04/13/2011)
• Running Time: 8 min. sec.
• Period Time: Baroque

Guillemain, Louis-Gabriel : Amusement pour le violon seul La Furstenberg :: Amusement

• Performer: Rebekka Hartmann (Violin)
• Notes: Holzmühle, Seeshaupt (04/11/2011-04/13/2011)
• Running Time: 7 min. 59 sec.
• Period Time: Classical

Rust, Friedrich Wilhelm : Partite for violin in D minor

• Performer: Rebekka Hartmann (Violin)
• Notes: Holzmühle, Seeshaupt (04/11/2011-04/13/2011)
• Running Time: 16 min. 24 sec.
• Period Time: Classical

Unspecified : [CD-ROM Track]

• Period Time: Modern