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CARL PHILIPP EMANUEL BACH, Vol. 2 = Sinfonia No. 3; Cello Con. No. 3; Sinfonia in e; Piccolo Cello Sonata; Harpsichord Con. – Ophélie Gaillard, cello and musical dir. / Francesco Corti, harpsichord / Pulcinella Orch. ‒ Aparté

by Audiophile Audition | Oct 1, 2016 | Classical CD Reviews

CARL PHILIPP EMANUEL BACH, Vol. 2 = Sinfonia No. 3 in C Major, Wq. 182/3; Cello Concerto No. 3 in B-Flat Major, Wq. 171; Sinfonia in e, Wq. 178; Piccolo Cello Sonata in D Major, Wq. 137; Harpsichord Concerto in d, Wq. 17 ‒ Ophélie Gaillard, cello and musical dir. / Francesco Corti, harpsichord / Pulcinella Orch. ‒ Aparté AP118 [Distr. by Harmonia mundi/PIAS]; 81:00 (4/1/16) ***1/2: Spirited Bach playing, though somewhat too brusque for my taste. But the cello sonata is worth the price of the disc. Throughout the nineteenth century and a good chunk of the twentieth, the sons of J. S. Bach were lumped together by musicians and considered so far inferior to their father that little of their music visited a music stand. If any of the sons had caché, it was Bach’s youngest, Johann Christian, thanks to his association with the adolescent Mozart. But with the rise of historically informed performance practice back in the ‘60s, groups such as Collegium Aureum and Concentus Musicus started to perform and commit to disc the long-unplayed orchestral works of C. P. E. Bach. The choral music and instrumental music soon made their way to disc as well, and […]