IDAGIO | C.P.E. Bach - Piano Concertos & other works for solo piano 881488230086

Featuring

Orazio Sciortino
Orchestra di Padova e del Veneto
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

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Performer Biography

Orazio Sciortino, the pianist, composer, and conductor on this album, has collaborated with major Italian and international musical institutions like Teatro alla Scala.

Composer's Artistic Vision

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach believed that a musician must be moved themselves to move others, embracing all affects they hope to arouse in listeners.

Performer Biography

The Orchestra di Padova e del Veneto (OPV) performs 120 concerts and opera performances annually and has recorded over 60 albums on various distinguished labels.

Compositional Technique

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach created musical form not from predetermined schemes, but based on instantaneous sensitivity, as if the music were 'written improvisation'.

Composer Biography

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, the composer featured on this album, was the second son of Johann Sebastian Bach and lived in the period between his father's death and Mozart's birth.

Composer's Artistic Vision

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach was a significant exponent of the Empfindsamer Stil ('sensibility'), a style rooted in Pietism that emphasized extreme emotionality.