Posts Tagged “Missa Salisburgensis”

Sep 15 2009

Podcast: Heinrich Biber’s Missa Salisburgensis

Posted by Raymond in Enhanced Shows, Podcasts, Regular Shows

BIBER, H.: Missa Salisburgensis album coverMissa Salisburgensis is a mass Heinrich Ignaz von Biber wrote for 53 individual voices and instruments, composed to celebrate the 11-hundreth anniversary of the founding of the archdiocese of Salzburg. I was composed to be performed in the Salzburg Cathedral – 444 feet long, with a ceiling more than 100 feet high. For this piece, Biber placed the audience in the middle, with the musicians divided into 8 groups all around them. You might call it the original Surround Sound.

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Catalogue No.: NCA 60192

 

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Tags: Baroque music, blog.naxos.com, Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber, La Stagione Armonica, Missa Salisburgensis, Naxos Classical Music Spotlight, Sergio Balestracci

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