Composer: Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
Performer: François Lazarevitch, Justin Taylor
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Alpha
Catalogue: ALPHA768
Release: 2022
Size: 2.76 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
Trio Sonata in D Minor, Wq.145
01. I. Allegretto
02. II. Largo
03. III. Allegro
Trio Sonata in D Major, Wq. 83
04. I. Allegro un poco
05. II. Largo
06. III. Allegro
Flute Sonata in A Minor, Wq. 132
07. I. Poco adagio
08. II. Allegro
9I. II. Allegro
Trio Sonata in C Major, Wq. 149
10. I. Allegro di molto
11. II. Andante
12. III. Allegretto
Fantasia in F-Sharp Minor, Wq. 67
13. I. Adagio – Allegretto
14. II. Largo – Adagio – Largo
15. III. Adagio – Allegretto – Adagio – Allegretto – Largo
Trio Sonata in B Minor, Wq. 143
16. I. Allegro
17. II. Adagio
18. III. Presto
With these sonatas by C. P. E. Bach, François Lazarevitch continues the exploration of the jewels of the flute and recorder repertory he has embarked on with Les Musiciens de Saint- Julien or as a soloist with recordings of music by Bach, Telemann, Vivaldi and van Eyck. François Lazarevitch and Justin Taylor now bring their sensitivity and virtuosity to bear on the sonatas for flute and obbligato harpsichord of Carl Philipp Emmanuel Bach. The majority of these works date from the years 1745-66, when he was in the service of the flute-playing King Frederick II. Two solos complete the programme: the famous Sonata in A minor for unaccompanied flute and the Fantasia in F# minor for keyboard, which testifies to Emanuel’s improvisational artistry. Situated at the epicentre of the Enlightenment era, Bach’s second son was the key figure of Empfindsamkeit (Sensibility), the movement that explored the deep and unfathomable stirrings of humanity and nature, countering the learned style of the early eighteenth-century masters with freedom of inspiration and hence emancipation of form. The artist now sought above all to express the impulses of the soul, displaying unexpected traits that sometimes verge on the bizarre.