Bachiana: Music of the Bach Family is not your run-of-the-mill collection of various pieces by Johann Sebastian Bach and his sons; rather, it should be seen as a collection of Johann Sebastian Bach's ancestors, a distant cousin, and at least one ancestor of his second wife, Anna Magdalena Bach. Musica Antiqua Köln's director Reinhard Goebel dedicates this disc to arch Bach musicologist Christoph Wolff, so it is odd that there is no separate listing in the liner notes to identify the sources of editions and/or manuscripts in ...
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Bachiana: Music of the Bach Family is not your run-of-the-mill collection of various pieces by Johann Sebastian Bach and his sons; rather, it should be seen as a collection of Johann Sebastian Bach's ancestors, a distant cousin, and at least one ancestor of his second wife, Anna Magdalena Bach. Musica Antiqua Köln's director Reinhard Goebel dedicates this disc to arch Bach musicologist Christoph Wolff, so it is odd that there is no separate listing in the liner notes to identify the sources of editions and/or manuscripts in use here. Yet these are uncommon pieces nonetheless, though a few have been published and some even previously recorded. The most immediately appealing music on this disc is that of the "distant cousin," Johann Ludwig Bach whose Handelian Overture in G major is heard along with a Cantata-Symphony in D major, here referred to as a "concerto." The former work has been around for a long time and has been previously recorded; the latter is extracted and edited from a nineteenth century...
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