CPE Bach (1714 - 88)
Artist and Businessman
Wednesday 14 September 2005 12:00-13:00 (Radio 3)
Repeated: Wednesday 21 September 2005 0:00-1:00 (Radio 3)
Bach backed up his radical aesthetics with a brilliant grasp of musical theory but, as Donald Macleod discovers, this was combined with a shrewd knowledge of what would sell.
Playlist
C.P.E. Bach: Sonata No.1 in C major (Six Sonatas, Wq. 63/1): 2nd Movt
Christopher Hogwood (clavichord)
Oiseau Lyre 4441622, track 8
C.P.E. Bach: Sonata No.6 in F minor (Six Sonatas, Wq.63/6)
Christopher Hogwood (clavichord)
L'Oiseau-Lyre 4441622, track 22-24
C.P.E. Bach: Sonata in C minor 'Sanguineus and Melancholicus', Wq.161/1
Florilegium
Channel Classics CCS11197, track 5 - 7
C.P.E. Bach: La Bohmer Wq.117/26
Miklos Spanyi (clavichord)
Bis CD1087, track 15
C.P.E. Bach: Symphony in E minor W.178
Akademie fur Alte Musik Berlin
Harmonia Mundi HMC 901711, track 7-9
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