Lovers and Mourners: Variations and Sonatas from 17th-century Germany, offers a comprehensive glimpse into the lives of virtuoso composer-performers Johann Jakob Walther, Heinrich Biber, and Johann Georg Pisendel. The Composers featured on Lovers and Mourners drew upon the "stylus phantasticus," a 17th-century Italian idiom whose features were marked by jagged shifts of affect and intended to display the player's technical command and expressive abilities. Bandy nimbly guides the listener through a labyrinth of variation sets and themes, simultaneously reproducing faithful interpretations of the music while injecting his own unique touch. Lovers and Mourners boasts a brief, yet intense survey of one of the richest chapters in the history of the virtuoso composer-performer.

Tracklist:

Fantazia in A Minor, Op. 7, No. 1 [04:23]
Scherzi da violino solo: No.
Sonata in D Major [06:56]
Scherzi da violino solo: Sonata No. 12 in E Minor, "Aria" [06:12]
Mystery (Rosary) Sonatas: Passacaglia in G Minor [09:19]
Violin Sonata No. 6 in C Minor, C. 143 [11:03]
Violin Sonata No. 3 in F Major, C. 140 [Wiener Minoritenkonvent, Manuscript XIV 726: No. 9] [11:33]
I. Largo [01:41]
II. Moderato [03:20]
III. Arioso [01:33]
IV. Scherzando [02:44]
Sonata and Suite in D Major [07:16]

UPC: 615499526964
Label: Leaf Music
Release Date: 8.18.23
Format: CD

Becker / Biber / Pisendel - Lovers & Mourners - Variations & Sonatas From (CD)