Biber Passacaglia: Gabrielle Wunsch, baroque violin

The passacaglia in G Minor for unaccompanied violin by Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber, performed on the baroque violin by Gabrielle Wunsch. HD video from our January, 2014, concerts. Biber s passacaglia is one of the finest works for violin of the 17th century: Biber spins a dazzling array of variationsin many different affectsover a simple, fournote bass line. The passacaglia is the crown jewel of the collection of sonatas known as the Rosary Sonatas; these works come down to us from the single surviv