C.P.E. Bach: 3 Flute Concertos

Featuring

Rachel Brown
Roy Goodman
Brandenburg Consort
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

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Interpretation

For this recording, a wide-bored Quantz-style flute was used, which plays almost a whole tone below modern pitch, allowing for pure major thirds.

Composer's Artistic Vision

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach believed in rhetorical delivery and creating 'stirring and ever-shifting Affects' in his music, expressing a wide range of emotions from blind rage to sweet tenderness.

Composer Biography

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, the composer of these flute concertos, was the fifth child of Johann Sebastian Bach, though only the third to survive.

Compositional Technique

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach often rearranged his works for different instruments, extending a practice established by his father, Johann Sebastian Bach.

Recording & Production

Horn parts, discovered for the harpsichord version of the D minor concerto, were included in this recording of the flute concerto, despite no such parts existing for the flute version.

Composer Biography

Despite being a gifted keyboard player and composer, Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach initially studied law at the universities of Leipzig and Frankfurt an der Oder.

Historical Context

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach worked for nearly three decades in the service of Crown Prince Frederick (later King Frederick II of Prussia), a monarch known for his musical interests.