Heinrich Biber Battalia à 10 (1673) Voices of Music 4 K

The famous Battalia of Heinrich Biber, live 4K ultra high definition video. 0:00 Sonata 1:45 The rowdy pub 2:35 Presto 3:18 Mars 4:37 Presto 5:39 Aria 7:50 Cello Battle 8:41 Lament for the wounded. Presented here for the first time on period instruments in the 4K, ultra high definition format. Biber s work, dedicated to the god Bacchus, opens with a lively Sonata with a rich, harmonious texture for the strings. This is followed by a character piece with a strikingly dissonant pub atmosphere, where each musician plays a different pop song all at the same timelike listening to different radio channels all at once. A dancey, footstomping presto brackets an unusual duet for violin and violone ( Mars ): the bass players are instructed to place sheets of paper over the strings for a snare drum effect. We used cloth paper as it is similar to the paper of Biber s time and it actually changed the sound. The music printed on the paper is from the E Minor Biber sonata we filmed with Elizabeth