The four concertos on this disc were at one time all thought to be by Johann Christian Bach, the "London Bach" whose concertos were rearranged by the child Mozart and influenced his musical growth greatly. Two of them have been assigned to Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach, of the Saxon town of Bückeburg, instead, making this disc timely as well as generally useful; fortepiano recordings of music by these two Bach sons, especially relevant in the case of J.C., have not been especially common. The disc is probably of most ...
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The four concertos on this disc were at one time all thought to be by Johann Christian Bach, the "London Bach" whose concertos were rearranged by the child Mozart and influenced his musical growth greatly. Two of them have been assigned to Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach, of the Saxon town of Bückeburg, instead, making this disc timely as well as generally useful; fortepiano recordings of music by these two Bach sons, especially relevant in the case of J.C., have not been especially common. The disc is probably of most interest to serious students of music of the middle eighteenth century, but those are invited to try their hands at seeing how the musical evidence links up with the documentary findings. The music on the disc all falls under the label galant, the mid-century style that was the counterpart to the ideal of naturalness espoused by Rousseau and other aestheticians. All the concertos are in the conventional three-movement format, and the layouts of the individual movements don't follow...
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