Various Artists - Live in Munchen 2011 / Various - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach Concertos For Various Instruments, Bach / Winne / Balssa / Ponseele / II Gardellino, Date 04/08/2014. Composer Carl Philipp Emmanuel Bach, Performer Emmanuel Balssa, Marcel Ponseele, Orchestra/Ensemble Il Gardellino, Number of Discs 1. When people spoke of the 'great Bach' during the 18th century, they were not referring to Johann Sebastian but to his son, Carl Philipp Emanuel, one of the chief representatives of the Empfindsamer Stil (Sensitive Style). He was in the service of Frederick the Great for over 30 years as harpsichordist and chamber musician. Bach's compositions, however, were not particularly appreciated at the rather conservative court - the works of Quantz or the Graun brothers met with greater favor there. Thus Bach composed primarily for the academies in the considerably more open-minded Berlin salons of the nobility and the bourgeoisie. Although works for keyboard instruments are the main focus of his production, over the course of his long career he also wrote more than 50 instrumental concertos in which the entire expressive range of his original music can also be clearly perceived. Just in time for the composer's 300th birthday, Il gardellino is presenting a small selection of these on this CD. Alongside the Cello Concerto, H. 432 and the Oboe Concerto, H.466, we can also hear the Flute Concerto, H.482/1, a work that was rediscovered in Kiev as recently as 2001.

During the inter-war period, in the cities of the West, a younger generation found ways to enjoy life in the form of dances such as shimmies, foxtrots, tangos and Charlestons strong rhythms that became a symbol of a carefree and decadent era. The new jazz craze took hold everywhere, and Krenek's opera Jonny spielt auf became an overnight sensation. The inter-war Zeitgeist in Vienna and the Czech lands is reflected in a programme full of première recordings - many of which were hits in their day - rich with fashionable dynamism, syncopation and joie de vivre. Born in Vienna, Gottlieb Wallisch first appeared on the concert when he was seven years old, and at the age of twelve made his debut in the Golden Hall of the Vienna Musikverein. A concert directed by Yehudi Menuhin in 1996 launched Wallisch's international career accompanied by the Sinfonia Varsovia, the seventeen-year-old pianist performed Beethoven's 'Emperor' Concerto. Since then Wallisch has received invitations to the world's most prestigious concert halls and festivals including Carnegie Hall in New York, Wigmore Hall in London, the Cologne Philharmonie, the Tonhalle Zurich, and the NCPA in Beijing, also the Ruhr Piano Festival, the Beethovenfest in Bonn, the Festivals of Lucerne and Salzburg, December Nights in Moscow, and the Singapore Arts Festival.

Various Artists - Computer Music Series 11 / Various [COMPACT DISCS] date 09/01/1993