The output of the prolific C.P.E. Bach continues to yield gems that justify the admiration of Mozart, among others, for his music. These six Symphonies for strings and continuo, Wq. 182, have been recorded before; greats Trevor Pinnock and Christopher Hogwood both committed sets to disc, but recordings in the 21st century have been sparse. This is odd, inasmuch as the pieces were commissioned by Vienna's Baron Gottfried van Swieten, a connoisseur who did much to introduce the music of J.S. Bach to both Mozart and Beethoven ...
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The output of the prolific C.P.E. Bach continues to yield gems that justify the admiration of Mozart, among others, for his music. These six Symphonies for strings and continuo, Wq. 182, have been recorded before; greats Trevor Pinnock and Christopher Hogwood both committed sets to disc, but recordings in the 21st century have been sparse. This is odd, inasmuch as the pieces were commissioned by Vienna's Baron Gottfried van Swieten, a connoisseur who did much to introduce the music of J.S. Bach to both Mozart and Beethoven and for whom C.P.E. Bach might have been expected to put forth the maximal effort. As it happens, he did. These are late-career experimental works that live up to the "beyond the limits" booklet description of violinist-conductor Amandine Beyer. She and her group Gli Incogniti, which has specialized mostly in Baroque music, are the first to give these works the contemporary rough-and-tumble Baroque treatment, which given the startling content, may well be what listeners are after....
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