Fifth Joyful Mystery: Biber's 'Mystery Sonatas'

(Vatican Radio) One of Biber's best-known works is his set of so-called 'Mystery Sonatas'. There are fifteen in all, and each one is named after one of the mysteries of the rosary. That was in the days before Blessed John Paul II added the five mysteries of light. And as music historian Monsignor Philip Whitmore tells us the sonata for the fifth joyful mystery, the finding of Our Lord in the Temple has five short movements...A programme produced by Veronica Scarisbrick.

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