Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

C P E Bach - Organ Sonatas

Motets by Bach’s Pupils

C P E Bach - Reveries for Connoisseurs & Amateurs

A second clavichord recital presented by Jocelyne Cuiller invites us to a dreamy promenade in the realm of pre-romantic sensibility, sharing Jean-Jacques Rousseau's frame of mind, to the sound of magnificent works by Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach.The clavichord sounds like a cross between a guitar and a harpsichord, giving both charm and intimacy to the music.

Volumes 70 & 71 of the Glenn Gould Complete Jacket Collection

The Glenn Gould Silver Jubilee Album

The Canadian musician Glenn Gould was undoubtedly one of the greatest pianists of all time. To mark the 75th anniversary of his birth, and the 25th anniversary of his death, Sony BMG Masterworks presents this seminal artist’s vinyl recordings as re-mastered CDs, designed to replicate the exact artwork of the original gramophone records in miniaturised form. Already issued as part of an 80-CD box set (88697130942), these albums are now being made available individually.

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Sinfonias from the Enlightenment

The symphonic works featured on this 2CD set all come from a period during the second half of the eighteenth century that has come to be known as the “Age of Enlightenment” when Frederick the Second ruled over Prussia. Alongside acknowledged masterpieces by Mozart and Haydn, the program also includes pieces by Hasse, Graun and C.P.E Bach that are receiving their first ever recording. The music is performed by the rising stars of the Austrian Chamber Group “Modern Times_1800”.

Mstislav Rostropovich plays Cello Concertos

C.P.E. Bach - Gamba Sonatas & Fantasias

Precursors of Beethoven's cello sonatas here played on viol and a Silbermann fortepiano.The rare Hamlet Fantasy finds the Ghielmi brothers joined by bass-baritone. Gianluca Buratto who has recently worked with Christophe Coin.

C. P. E Bach - Concertos & Symphonies

At the end of the 18th century, the most famous member of the Bach family was not Johann Sebastian, but his son, Carl Philipp Emanuel! This prominent representative of the school of German, and more especially Prussian composers, a pioneer of Empfindsamkeit (the cult of “sensibility”), was prized above all for what his contemporaries termed his “originality” – by which they meant the sovereign ease with which he forged his own style. To understand this, one need only listen to the nine symphonies from his Berlin period, whose radical departure from traditional forms symbolises a stylistic revolution in itself. As for his innovative treatment of the concerto, which overturns all the principles of symmetry so dear to Baroque composers, it seems already to prefigure Romanticism.

The Artistry of Barthold Kuijken

Barthold Kuijken (b. 1949) studied flute and recorder at the Royal Conservatories of Brussels and The Hague. As member of the Collegium Aureum and later of La Petite Bande he gained experience with repertoire ranging from Baroque to early Romanticism. He often joins in concerts with his brothers Sigiswald and Wieland and harpsichordists Robert Kohnen and Gustav Leonhardt, He teaches at the Royal Conservatories of Brussels and The Hague. A performance by a master of his craft, playing pieces by Bach, Telemann, Schubert, Mozart and Couperin.

C. P. E. Bach - Viola da gamba Sonatas