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Walther - Hortulus Chelicus Mainz          | Zig Zag Territoires ZZT060902

Walther - Hortulus Chelicus Mainz

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Label: Zig Zag Territoires

Cat No: ZZT060902

Barcode: 3760009291201

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Release Date: 13th November 2006

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Contents

Artists

David Plantier (violin)
Les Plaisirs du Parnasse

Works

Walther, Johann Jakob

Hortulus Chelicus

Artists

David Plantier (violin)
Les Plaisirs du Parnasse

About

David Plantier, after attracting widespread press attention with his Westhoff CD – ‘Choc du Monde de la Musique’, ‘Diapason Découverte’, ‘Il Meglio di mese’, ‘Exceptionnel’, nominated for the Cannes Classical Awards, ***** in BBC Music Magazine – continues his exploration of eighteenth-century German music with a project devoted to Johann Jakob Walther
 
Westhoff and Walther both trained in Dresden as members of one of the most famous court orchestras in Baroque Europe. Along with Heinrich Biber, these two extraordinary violinist-composers spectacularly extended their instrument’s technical capacity while at the same time giving us superb works of pure music, astonishing in their rich variety and beauty. 
 
In his Hortulus Chelicus, published at Mainz in 1688, Walther left one of the most important collections of violin music of the late seventeenth century. Comprising the extravagant total of 28 pieces, it includes both works of a deliberately accessible standard of difficulty and others that are highly virtuosic. The set presents the entire range of current forms: suites made up of preludes and dances, passacaglias, arias with variations, and imitative pieces (depicting the lute, the cuckoo, the hen, etc.), a genre of which Walther had become one of the most committed advocates. 
 
His Serenata is the most brilliant example of this. In the space of a few minutes, the violin is transformed successively into an orchestra, an organ with tremolo stop, a hurdy-gurdy, a harp, a trumpet, and so on, in a true tour de force.

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