CPE Bach - The Hamburg Symphonies, Wq182
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Label: Glossa
Cat No: GCD921134
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Orchestral
Release Date: 15th December 2023
Contents
Artists
Orchestra of the Eighteenth CenturyConductor
Alexander JaniczekWorks
Sinfonias (6) for string orchestra, Wq182 'Hamburg Symphonies'Artists
Orchestra of the Eighteenth CenturyConductor
Alexander JaniczekAbout
This second son of JS Bach, Carl Philipp has sometimes had a rough ride with posterity (and with some of his contemporaries too). Although overshadowed later by Haydn and Mozart - albeit admired by the pair - and overshadowed in his lifetime by Handel, he remains a crucial link between the Baroque and the Classical, particularly for the ultra-sensitive style, his Empfindsamkeit.
Thirty years spent writing hundreds of harpsichord works in the Berlin of Frederick II of Prussia before moving to Hamburg to write religious music at the Johanneum, his mind was awash with new and different ideas appreciated by Gottfried van Swieten. This baron commissioned these six symphonies, urging Carl Philipp to aim high in his compositional writing, and he responded by giving free rein to his musical ideas and his treatment of the instruments in these six three-movement works.
Scored for strings and continuo, these works from 1773 have very little in common with other pre- classical symphonies, including those by Carl Philipp's brother Johann Christian (or Italian opera overtures), as is remarked upon by Emilio Moreno in his booklet essay.
The Orchestra - here with Alexander Janiczek as leader - responds with evident pleasure to Bach's rich harmonies, bold dynamics and flowing melodies and with much appetite for his virtuosic instrumental writing.
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