C.P.E. Bach: Fantasias

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The performance by Häkkinen is energetic and quite revelatory. Rather than emphasize the technical aspects (which are considerable), he focuses on the emotional impact of Emanuel’s complex writing,... — Fanfare, Mar/Apr 2024 More…

Release Date: 26th May 2023
Catalogue No: 96567
Label: Brilliant Classics
Length: 75 minutes

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Bach, C P E: Freie Fantasie, Wq. 63 / 6 (H75) [Hamlet, reasoning on suicide]

Work length15:06

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I. Allegro di molto

Track length4:10

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II. Adagio

Track length4:24

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III. Fantasia. Allegro moderato

Track length6:32

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Bach, C P E: Fantasia and Fugue in C minor, Wq. 119 / 7 (H103)

Work length7:01

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Fantasia

Track length2:14

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Fugue

Track length4:47

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Bach, C P E: Fantasia for keyboard in D major, Wq. 117 / 14 (H160)

Work length2:31

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Bach, C P E: Fantasia in G minor, Wq. 117 / 13 (H225)

Work length4:26

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Bach, C P E: Fantasia in E flat major, W.deest (H. 348)

Work length5:50

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Bach, C P E: Fantasia and Fugue in D minor, Wq. Deest (H.349)

Work length2:38

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Bach, C P E: Fantasia and Fugue in D minor, Wq. Deest (H.349)

Work length17:50

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Fugue

Track length4:44

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Fantasia

Track length7:12

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Fugue

Track length5:54

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Bach, C P E: Abschied vom Silbermannschen Klavier - einem Rondo in E minor

Work length6:48

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Aapo Häkkinen

Bach, C P E: Fantasia in F-Sharp Minor, Wq. 67

Work length13:31

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Aapo Häkkinen

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- Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714-1788) was the most famous and successful son of the great Johann Sebastian. He was a protagonist of the Empfindsame Stil, intended to express true and natural feelings, featuring sudden contrasts of mood and emotions.

- This new recording features a selection of Fantasias, Sonatas and Rondos. “It is particularly in the fantasias that the keyboard player, more than any other musician, can practise a declamatory style, passing audaciously from one affect to another … to spontaneously master the feelings of his listeners.” (C.Ph.E. Bach: Versuch über die wahre Art das Clavier zu spielen, 1753). Also included in this program is the Chromatic Fantasy & Fugue by Johann Sebastian Bach, its central recitative and broken chords audaciously passing through distant harmonies were certainly an example and inspiration for the son.

- The recording features two different harpsichords and a Daniel Dörr fortepiano.

- Finnish keyboard player Aapo Häkkinen studied in Helsinki and subsequently with Bob van Asperen, Menno van Delft (clavichord), and Stanley Hoogland (fortepiano) at the Amsterdam Conservatory and with Pierre Hantaï in Paris, while also enjoying the generous guidance and encouragement of Gustav Leonhardt. He won second prize and the VRT prize at the Bruges Harpsichord Competition. He was also awarded the Norddeutscher Rundfunk Musikpreis 1997 for his interpretations of Italian music. He developed a successful career as harpsichordist and conductor, and is Artistic Director of the Helsinki Baroque Orchestra.

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Mar/Apr 2024

The performance by Häkkinen is energetic and quite revelatory. Rather than emphasize the technical aspects (which are considerable), he focuses on the emotional impact of Emanuel’s complex writing, using a very flexible sense of tempo and meter.

August 2023

Häkkinen exploits the strengths and weaknesses of his chosen clavichords in sounds ranging from a febrile lyricism to something akin to the strumming of an angry guitar...the effect is intimate, ear-catching and, in its own way, enthralling.

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