As well as works by Leclair, C P E Bach, Graun and Blavet, this CD includes a rediscovered work by Quantz. "For anyone interested in the chamber repertoire for flute in the eighteenth century this should be informative and enjoyable listening. …
“Esfahani’s booklet-note provides the listener with a convivial commentary in which he draws attention to CPE Bach’s ‘Janus-like musical personality’...The elusive fusion of thematic intricacy, ‘Baroque’ rhetoric and ‘proto-Classical’ Sturm und Dran…
“This is extremely intelligent, thoughtful, committed playing that displays both a grasp of recent trends in performance practice and a deep love of the music. Of all the pianists seeking to make a case for music of this vintage on the mdoern instru…
C. P. E. Bach has had to wait a very long time to come into his own again, after first going out of fashion by the end of the 18th century and then being overshadowed by the staggering genius of his father; but with the revival of interest over …
C.P.E. Bach would undoubtedly rejoice, were he alive, upon hearing this album of his cello concertos by Truls Mørk and Les Violons du Roy under the direction of Bernard Labadie. From the opening notes, one cannot help but feel the orchestra is fanta…
At the time when CPE Bach was engaged as court harpsichordist at Sans-Souci, Berlin discovered the pleasure of listening to a new type of music which could 'speak' without words, music which brought to mind the deepest of human emotions. The…
As a specialist in historical violin techniques of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, Simon Standage has performed with many of the world's leading period instrument orchestras.Standage and Richard Hickox founded the group Collegium Music…
“with the exception of Goldberg's sonata these compositions are not that well-known and that makes this disc a worthwhile addition to the discography. That is even more the case in consideration of the performances. London Baroque is one of the …