From the 17th century's adventuresome Heinrich Biber (whose violin sonata mimics nightingales, hens, and quails) right up through today, composers have been fascinated with our fine-feathered friends, ...
Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber's "Vespro della Beata Vergine" is not a work that the German Baroque composer would have recognized: It's a Marian Vespers that Cologne-based conductor Konrad Junghänel has ...