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Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714-1788)
Flötenquartette Wq.93-95
- +Adagio aus der Sonate Wq. 48 Nr. 6; Andante con Tenerezza aus der Sonate Wq. 65 Nr. 32
Nevermind
For their third album on Alpha, the musicians of Nevermind – Anna Besson (flute), Louis Creac’h (viola), Robin Pharo (viola da gamba) and Jean Rondeau (harpsichord) – explore the riches of a little-played repertory, the quartets and sonatas of Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach. It was in 1788, the year of his death, that Emanuel composed his three quartets for keyboard, flute and viola. These astonishing works were commissioned by a talented lady musician living in Berlin, where J. S. Bach’s second son had begun his career. That post, however, had not yet allowed him fully to emancipate his compositional talent: his relations with King Frederick II were stormy, since the latter sought to promote the style galant, while the young virtuoso keyboardist advocated a more emotional and tormented musical idiom, oriented towards Empfindsamkeit. It was only in Hamburg, where he succeeded his godfather Telemann, that he was finally able to reveal the full extent of his avant-gardism.
Christmas 2021
The playing here is marked by clarity and expressiveness in music that is intricate, emotionally demonstrative and ceaselessly exploratory...In all, supremely accomplished works if lacking that elusive ‘voice’ of a great creative mind.
March/April 2022
The four musicians are in such close accord one might expect that they share not only the same apartment but also the same toothbrush. Much is made of the music’s expressive potential, but one also is aware of the musicians’ stylistic self-discipline. I played this CD for hours without losing any of my taste for it, and I hope that you will do the same.
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