C.P.E. BACH: Music for Hamburg [CD de audio] Solamente Naturali, Didier Talpain, Marek Toporowski and C.P.E. Bach

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, known as the Bach of Hamburg, was the most successful of Bach's sons and more famous in his lifetime than his father Johann Sebastian. With his symphonies, he is a direct precursor of Haydn. From his father he inherited disciplined austerity as greed and left his stepmother Anna Magdalena to die in poverty in 1760 without helping her financially. Bach compiled his knowledge as a harpsichordist and composer in the famous treatise Essay on the True Art of Playing Keyboard Instruments. In addition to the opera genre, Bach Junior was creatively active in all genres. He wrote sonatas for soloist, fantasias, minuets, polonaises, around 50 concertos and sonatinas. However, he only wrote 18 symphonies, which is quite few compared to Haydn (107), Mozart (40) and his brother Johann Christian (around 50, including concertante symphonies). But the essence speaks for him. And the most compositionally of high quality were written by Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach in his time in Hamburg: these are the six string symphonies WQ182 and the four symphonies with twelve obbligato voices, which are documented in this recording. The Solomente Naturali ensemble plays on historical instruments and merges with harpsichordist Marek Toporowski and conductor Didier Talpain in a very delicate performance. A great recording: ecstasy, pleasure, enchantment in classic early baroque style.