Jakub Mitrik, Biber Consort – Mandora: The Lute of the Monasteries (2025) [FLAC 24bit/96kHz]

Jakub Mitrik, Biber Consort – Mandora: The Lute of the Monasteries (2025)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:00:53 minutes | 1,07 GB | Genre: Classical
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The mandora is a lute instrument that gradually disappeared with the advent of the guitar and has been completely forgotten since around 1820 – until today. The lutenist Jakub Mitrik has set himself the goal of reviving this instrument and its repertoire with this CD. The development of the mandora was a reaction to the baroque lute, which became increasingly complicated to play and had up to 14 courses of strings. It is tuned in a similar way to the later guitar and has six strings, the lower five of which are double-stringed. The mandora was particularly popular in monasteries, especially among the Benedictines. There, the mandora was valued as a solo and chamber music instrument due to its handiness and versatility. The archives of these monasteries also contain a very varied repertoire specially tailored to the mandora, which Jakub MitrIk and his Biber Consort present here for the first time. This is chamber music in a wide variety of formations, in which the mandora takes on the role of a fully-fledged partner that goes far beyond mere basso continuo accompaniment. With his selection, MitrIk presents a multi-coloured and sensitively performed CD programme that reflects the lightness of the late Baroque and early Classical periods and allows musical life in the monasteries outside the liturgy to shine in an unusual light.

Tracklist:

1-01. Biber Consort – Quartet in D Major (A-Kr. L. 133/II No. 1): I. Aria. Andante (03:14)
1-02. Biber Consort – Quartet in D Major (A-Kr. L. 133/II No. 1): II. Menuet – Trio (03:02)
1-03. Biber Consort – Quartet in D Major (A-Kr. L. 133/II No. 1): III. Gigue (02:05)
1-04. Antonia Ortner – Aria de Sancta Scholastica: No. 1, Hellfunkelnde Sterne (01:34)
1-05. Antonia Ortner – Aria de Sancta Scholastica: No. 2, Paestanische Rosen (02:55)
1-06. Antonia Ortner – Aria de Sancta Scholastica: No. 3, Die englischen Musen (03:32)
1-07. Biber Consort – Trio in A Major (A-Kr. L. 133/II No. 27): I. Symphonia (03:02)
1-08. Biber Consort – Trio in A Major (A-Kr. L. 133/II No. 27): II. Andante (00:42)
1-09. Biber Consort – Trio in A Major (A-Kr. L. 133/II No. 27): III. Menuet – Trio (02:00)
1-10. Biber Consort – Trio in A Major (A-Kr. L. 133/II No. 27): IV. Capriccio (01:05)
1-11. Jakub Mitrik – Solo in C Major (A-Kr. H50 No. 168, Fasz. 1/4): I. Symphonia. Adagio (02:22)
1-12. Jakub Mitrik – Solo in C Major (A-Kr. H50 No. 168, Fasz. 1/4): II. Menuet (01:51)
1-13. Jakub Mitrik – Solo in C Major (A-Kr. H50 No. 168, Fasz. 1/4): III. Allegretto (01:55)
1-14. Jakub Mitrik – Solo in C Major (A-Kr. H50 No. 168, Fasz. 1/4): IV. Menuet (02:20)
1-15. Antonia Ortner – Sultan Wampum oder die Wünsche: Juhe, nun will ich leben (Arr. for Voice & Mandora by Joseph Michael Zink) (05:57)
1-16. Biber Consort – Trio in D Major (A-Kr. L. 133/II No. 14): I. Introduzione. A troppo presto (03:19)
1-17. Biber Consort – Trio in D Major (A-Kr. L. 133/II No. 14): II. Menuet – Trio (02:59)
1-18. Biber Consort – Trio in D Major (A-Kr. L. 133/II No. 14): III. Finale (03:07)
1-19. Antonia Ortner – Die Zauberflöte, K. 620: In diesen heil’gen Hallen (Arr. for Voice & Mandora by Joseph Michael Zink) (02:09)
1-20. Biber Consort – Parthia à 4 in A Major (A-Kr. H50 No. 172, Fasz. 3): I. Intrada (03:02)
1-21. Biber Consort – Parthia à 4 in A Major (A-Kr. H50 No. 172, Fasz. 3): II. Ballo (02:20)
1-22. Biber Consort – Parthia à 4 in A Major (A-Kr. H50 No. 172, Fasz. 3): III. Menuet – Trio (02:03)
1-23. Biber Consort – Parthia à 4 in A Major (A-Kr. H50 No. 172, Fasz. 3): IV. Fantasia (01:31)
1-24. Biber Consort – Parthia à 4 in A Major (A-Kr. H50 No. 172, Fasz. 3): V. Capriccio (02:36)

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