This Carus Verlag disc, Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach: Magnificat, featuring soloists, the Basler Madrigalisten, and period band L'Arpa Festante under the direction of Fritz Näf, represents the first recording of Bach's Magnificat in a "new" version, along with a Christmas cantata, Die Himmel erzählen die Ehre Göttes, a work rediscovered among Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach's personal manuscript collection that emerged in Kiev in 1999. The disc is a little misleading in that it lists both pieces as "first recordings"; the Magnificat ...
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This Carus Verlag disc, Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach: Magnificat, featuring soloists, the Basler Madrigalisten, and period band L'Arpa Festante under the direction of Fritz Näf, represents the first recording of Bach's Magnificat in a "new" version, along with a Christmas cantata, Die Himmel erzählen die Ehre Göttes, a work rediscovered among Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach's personal manuscript collection that emerged in Kiev in 1999. The disc is a little misleading in that it lists both pieces as "first recordings"; the Magnificat in D minor (Wq. 215, H. 772) comes not from the Singakademie collection but is an already well-known work that isn't commonly done without the trumpet and timpani parts added in its later, revised version. This earlier version, minus the louder instruments, has the virtue, at certain points, of sounding a bit more like "Dad" than it does in the revision, and that's none too surprising, as it was written in 1749 as a kind of a job application for the elder Bach's position as...
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