C.P.E Bach: Six Concertos / Astronio, Molardi

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Brilliant Classics
Release Date
January 5, 2024
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
    • PERFORMER
      Claudio Astronio, Stefano Molardi
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      January 05, 2024
    • UPC
      5028421955841
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      BRI95584
    • LABEL
      Brilliant Classics
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      2
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. I. Allegro di molto

      Composer: Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

      Performer: Claudio Astronio, Stefano Molardi

    2. II. Andante

      Composer: Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

      Performer: Claudio Astronio, Stefano Molardi

    3. III. Prestissimo

      Composer: Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

      Performer: Claudio Astronio, Stefano Molardi

    4. I. Allegro di molto

      Composer: Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

      Performer: Claudio Astronio, Stefano Molardi

    5. II. Andante

      Composer: Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

      Performer: Claudio Astronio, Stefano Molardi

    6. III. Allegretto

      Composer: Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

      Performer: Claudio Astronio, Stefano Molardi

    7. I. Allegro

      Composer: Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

      Performer: Claudio Astronio, Stefano Molardi

    8. II. Larghetto

      Composer: Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

      Performer: Claudio Astronio, Stefano Molardi

    9. III. Presto

      Composer: Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

      Performer: Claudio Astronio, Stefano Molardi

    10. I. Allegro assai

      Composer: Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

      Performer: Claudio Astronio, Stefano Molardi

    11. II. Poco adagio

      Composer: Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

      Performer: Claudio Astronio, Stefano Molardi

    12. III. Tempo di minuetto

      Composer: Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

      Performer: Claudio Astronio, Stefano Molardi

    13. IV. Allegro assai

      Composer: Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

      Performer: Claudio Astronio, Stefano Molardi

    14. I. Adagio - Presto

      Composer: Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

      Performer: Claudio Astronio, Stefano Molardi

    15. II. Adagio

      Composer: Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

      Performer: Claudio Astronio, Stefano Molardi

    16. III. Allegro

      Composer: Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

      Performer: Claudio Astronio, Stefano Molardi

    17. I. Allegro di molto

      Composer: Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

      Performer: Claudio Astronio, Stefano Molardi

    18. II. Larghetto

      Composer: Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

      Performer: Claudio Astronio, Stefano Molardi

    19. III. Allegro

      Composer: Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

      Performer: Claudio Astronio, Stefano Molardi


Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach wrote this set of six keyboard concertos Wq43 once he had been released from the constricting service to Frederick the Great of Prussia. Published in 1772, these concertos are among the first-fruits of such liberated imagination. The solo parts of these works will test the mettle of any aspiring or proven virtuoso. Their greatest originality, though, lies in their form.

Each concerto is written cyclically, or continuously, meaning that one movement leads directly into the next. Even the cadenzas are fully written out, anticipating in this regard Beethoven’s ‘Emperor’ Concerto of two generations later.

The panoply of CPE’s instrumentation is necessarily compressed by this transcription of the concertos for two harpsichords, but the vitality of dialogue is fully preserved. It was made (or at least copied) by Johann Gottlieb Haußstädler, a copyist working for Peter August, the organist for the Elector of Saxony. The two men may have collaborated on the arrangement; at any rate, it has been unknown until now, and comes to life in the hands of a pair of Italian musicians with a serious pedigree in recording music of this period for Brilliant Classics.