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C.P.E. Bach: Fantasias / Häkkinen
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C.P.E. Bach: Fantasias / Häkkinen

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Composer
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, Johann Sebastian Bach
Artist
Aapo Hakkinen
Format
CD
Label
Brilliant Classics
Released
May 26, 2023
Catalog #
BRI96567
UPC
5028421965673

About

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach was widely known for his passionate, incomparable improvisations on the clavichord, most characteristically in the form of free fantasia. His compositions were unique in style, full of contrasts, and universally admired by several generations; the Vienna Classicists, even Beethoven and Schubert, considered him their musical father. Declamatory, improvisatory style is of course the epitaph of all 18th-century music – exemplified in Johann Sebastian Bach's Chromatic Fantasia BWV903, with its central recitative and broken chords audaciously passing through distant harmonies. Johann Nikolaus Forkel, author of the first Bach biography and part of C.P.E. Bach’s literary circles, transmitted a refined version in his manuscript (P 212) and subsequent edition that may derive from a revised original version once in possession of the Bach sons. C.P.E. Bach’s Fantasia in C minor (published in 1753) bears distinct similarities to his father’s Fantasia chromatica, and it has been suggested that it may in fact have been a tombeau to the elder Bach. The deep personal nature and connection between the two works is explicit. For Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach and the ‘Bachists’, the most expressive and intimate compositions were reserved for the clavichord. It was in the clavichord that one might ‘find the soundboard of your heart. … Have no regrets when alone under the moonlight you improvise, or refresh your soul on a summer night, or when you celebrate a spring evening; ah! then pine not for the strident harpsichord. See, your clavichord breathes as gently as your heart.’ (Ch.F.D. Schubart: Musikalische Rhapsodien III, 1786) Charles Burney, who visited C.P.E. Bach in Hamburg in 1772, described the composer improvising at his legendary clavichord, built by Gottfried Silbermann: ‘He grew so animated and possessed that he not only played but looked like one inspired. His eyes were fixed, his lower lip fell, and drops of effervescence distilled from his countenance.’ The original 18th-century instruments heard on this recording – from Regensburg, Stockholm and Vienna – demonstrate possibilities the like of which would have been known to Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach in Berlin and Hamburg and ultimately derive from the Saxon school of G. Silbermann.

Tracklist 14 tracks

  1. 1 I. Allegro di molto 04:10
    Track
    1
    Title
    I. Allegro di molto
    Duration
    04:10
    Composer
    Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
    Performer
    Aapo Häkkinen
  2. 2 II. Adagio 04:24
    Track
    2
    Title
    II. Adagio
    Duration
    04:24
    Composer
    Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
    Performer
    Aapo Häkkinen
  3. 3 III. Fantasia: Allegro moderato 06:32
    Track
    3
    Title
    III. Fantasia: Allegro moderato
    Duration
    06:32
    Composer
    Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
    Performer
    Aapo Häkkinen
  4. 4 Fantasia 02:14
    Track
    4
    Title
    Fantasia
    Duration
    02:14
    Composer
    Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
    Performer
    Aapo Häkkinen
  5. 5 Fugue 04:47
    Track
    5
    Title
    Fugue
    Duration
    04:47
    Composer
    Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
    Performer
    Aapo Häkkinen
  6. 6 Fantasia in D Major, Wq. 117/14, H. 160 02:31
    Track
    6
    Title
    Fantasia in D Major, Wq. 117/14, H. 160
    Duration
    02:31
    Composer
    Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
    Performer
    Aapo Häkkinen
  7. 7 Fantasia in G Minor, Wq. 117/13, H. 225 04:26
    Track
    7
    Title
    Fantasia in G Minor, Wq. 117/13, H. 225
    Duration
    04:26
    Composer
    Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
    Performer
    Aapo Häkkinen
  8. 8 Fantasia in E-Flat Major, Wq. deest., H. 348 05:50
    Track
    8
    Title
    Fantasia in E-Flat Major, Wq. deest., H. 348
    Duration
    05:50
    Composer
    Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
    Performer
    Aapo Häkkinen
  9. 9 Fantasia 02:38
    Track
    9
    Title
    Fantasia
    Duration
    02:38
    Composer
    Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
    Performer
    Aapo Häkkinen
  10. 10 Fugue 04:44
    Track
    10
    Title
    Fugue
    Duration
    04:44
    Composer
    Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
    Performer
    Aapo Häkkinen
  11. 11 Fantasia 07:12
    Track
    11
    Title
    Fantasia
    Duration
    07:12
    Composer
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    Performer
    Aapo Häkkinen
  12. 12 Fugue 05:54
    Track
    12
    Title
    Fugue
    Duration
    05:54
    Composer
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    Performer
    Aapo Häkkinen
  13. 13 Rondo in E Minor, Wq. 66, H. 272, "Abschied von meinem Silbermannischen Claviere" 06:48
    Track
    13
    Title
    Rondo in E Minor, Wq. 66, H. 272, "Abschied von meinem Silbermannischen Claviere"
    Duration
    06:48
    Composer
    Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
    Performer
    Aapo Häkkinen
  14. 14 Fantasia in F-Sharp Minor, Wq. 67, H. 300 13:31
    Track
    14
    Title
    Fantasia in F-Sharp Minor, Wq. 67, H. 300
    Duration
    13:31
    Composer
    Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
    Performer
    Aapo Häkkinen