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Bach's Sonatas are enormously appealing and Yates brings out their ingenuous charm with natural grace and a fluent virtuosity which avoids anything in the nature of overstatement or empty gesture. — BBC Music Magazine, November 2009, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 1st Sep 2009
Catalogue No: CHAN0762
Label: Chandos
Series: Chaconne
Length: 67 minutes

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Bach, J C: Harpsichord Sonata in B-Flat Major, Op. 5 No. 1, W. A1

Work length8:37

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Sophie Yates

I. Allegretto

Track length5:07

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II. Tempo di minuetto

Track length3:30

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Bach, J C: Harpsichord Sonata in D Major, Op. 5 No. 2, W. A2

Work length14:05

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Sophie Yates

I. Allegro di molto

Track length6:35

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II. Andante di molto

Track length4:07

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III. Minuetto

Track length3:23

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Bach, J C: Harpsichord Sonata in G Major, Op. 5 No. 3, W. A3

Work length11:09

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Sophie Yates

I. Allegro

Track length5:36

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II. Allegretto

Track length5:33

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Bach, J C: Harpsichord Sonata in E-Flat Major, Op. 5 No. 4, W. A4

Work length11:36

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Sophie Yates

I. Allegro

Track length7:00

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II. Rondeaux. Allegretto

Track length4:36

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Bach, J C: Harpsichord Sonata in E Major, Op. 5 No. 5, W. A5

Work length11:21

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Sophie Yates

I. Allegro assai

Track length6:14

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II. Adagio

Track length3:05

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III. Prestissimo

Track length2:02

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Bach, J C: Harpsichord Sonata in C Minor, Op. 5 No. 6, W. A6

Work length10:54

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Sophie Yates

I. Grave

Track length3:07

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II. Allegro moderato

Track length3:19

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III. Allegretto

Track length4:28

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‘Sophie Yates confirms her credentials as one of Britain’s most talented harpsichordists.’ The Daily Telegraph.

Besides many operas and works for the concert hall, Johann Christian composed keyboard music of a predominantly light character. Much of this keyboard music was intended for social purposes but these pieces should not be regarded as second-rate. The virtues of Johann Christian's keyboard works were aptly summed up by Leopold Mozart in a letter to his son: The small thing is great, when it is written in a naturally fluent and light style and when it is efficiently put in a composition. To compose in this way is more difficult than to write all the artificial and incomprehensible harmonic progressions and hardly performable melodies. [...] This distinguishes the master from the bungler in detail.

Johann Christian left two suites of sonatas, Op.5 and Op.17, each containing 6 sonatas, composed for keyboard solo. Both suites bear the title For the Harpsichord or Piano Forte, but this present recording is one of the only available performances on harpsichord.

Suite Op.5 was designed to explore and showcase the capabilities of the then relatively new pianoforte, and was played in public at the Hanover Square Concert rooms to a fascinated London public on a square piano by Zumpe. Karl Geiringer, in his book Die Musikerfamilie Bach, regards the Sonata in C minor Op.5 No.6 as one of the most eminent works by Johann Christian.

This charming collection of classical sonatas is elegantly played by Sophie Yates.

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November 2009

Bach's Sonatas are enormously appealing and Yates brings out their ingenuous charm with natural grace and a fluent virtuosity which avoids anything in the nature of overstatement or empty gesture.

October 2009

…Yates is an engaging advocate: registral choices are intelligent, making the most of the "orchestral" sound that periodically underlies Bach's writing, and her playing has the lightness and wit without which the point of the music would, I suspect, be entirely lost.

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