NEW ALBUM PUBLISHED: BACH CELLO CONCERTOS
28/09/25 05:30
NEW ALBUM PUBLISHED:
Carl Philipp Emanuel & Johann Christian BACH: CELLO CONCERTOS
JPK 30 09 23
Now available for streaming & download
This Album consists of fascinating readings by the soloists and the Cologne New Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Volker Hartung.
C.P.E. Bach was his father’s true successor, an important figure in the music world of his time and the leading composer of the early Classical period.
He was the second surviving son of Johann Sebastian and Maria Barbara Bach.
His three cello concertos (Wq. 170–172), and especially the on in A Major are cornerstones of that instrument's repertoire.
Bach was also a prolific writer of concertos, especially for keyboard. His compositions, which date from 1731, include about thirty sonatas and concert pieces. Like his father, he would often transcribe a concerto for various instruments, leading to problems determining which came first. His fascinating style is easily recognizable in his cello concert in A-major from 1741.
Johann Christian Bach (1735–1782) was the youngest son of Johann Sebastian Bach and the eleventh of thirteen children from his second marriage to Anna Magdalena, née Wilcke. He received his early musical training from his father, and later from his half-brother, Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach in Berlin. After his time in Berlin he made his way to Italy to study with famous Padre Martini in Bologna. While in Italy, J.C. Bach was appointed as an organist at the Milan Cathedral. In 1762 he became a composer to the King’s Theatre in London where he wrote a number of successful Italian operas and became known as "The English Bach".[2] He is responsible for the development of the sinfonia concertante form. He became one of the most influential figures of the classical period, influencing compositional styles of prolific musicians like Haydn and Mozart.
Soloists on this Album are William Lithgow and Pavel Ulanicki, violoncello.
