Various Composers - Battaglia (Ars Antiqua Austria)

Information

• Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber - Balletto in B Minor, C. 60 "Die Werber"
• Johann Heinrich Schmelzer - Die musikalische Fechtschul
• Marco Uccelini - Sinfonie boscarecie, Op. 8: No. 34, La gran battaglia
• Dario Castello - Sonate concertate in stil moderno, Book 2: Sonata decima sesta à 4
• Marcin Mielczewski - Canzona prima à 2
• Johann Joseph Fux - Sinfonia à 3 in C Major, K. 331
• Andreas Anton Schmelzer - Die Türkenschlacht
• Johann Sigismund Kusser - Festin des muses, Suite No. 1 in G Minor: VII. Les combattans
• Johann Joseph Fux - Partita à 3 in C Major, K. 323
• Ferdinand Kauer - Sonate militaire "La conquête d'Oczakow"
• Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber - Battalia à 10, C. 61

Ars Antiqua Austria

Salzburger Lautenensemble

Gunar Letzbor, violin & direction

Date: 2025

Label: Pan Classics

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Certainly, Gunar Letzbor and his musicians from Ars Antiqua Austria are of completely peace-loving nature, and surely the composers of the musical battle scenes presented here, whether of a general nature or actual depictions of historical battles, were not musical warmongers. Rather, we should understand Letzbor and his ensemble as musical war correspondents, and in that case, listening to these equally captivating and masterful Battaglia offers pure auditory enjoyment, where there can truly be only winners.