Weichlein: Encaenia Musices
Label: RAUMKLANG Catalog: RK3401 Format: CD Born into a family of musicians in Linz, Andreas Franz Weichlein took up Romanus as his monk’s name upon entering the Monastery at Lambach. In the preface to A Musical Feast, Encaenia Musices, the name Weichlein chose for his twelve sonatas Op. 1, of 1695, he states that the pieces are ‘for the ear, rather than the eye’, and that the musicians should feel free to shorten, lengthen and rearrange them as desired. The sonatas are in the style typically found in Austria at the time: freely composed violin and trumpet lines above an ostinato baseline emerging as a virtuosic baroque musical feast. Price: $28.98 |