The 300th anniversary of the birth of J.S. Bach's oldest son occurred in 2010, and this album was one of just a few observances of the event. Biographical data on Wilhelm Friedemann Bach is rather scanty, giving armchair musical psychoanalysts plenty of room for speculation on what it was like to be groomed for success by one of the greatest composers who ever lived. You can speculate yourself after hearing this program of music that varies between staying close to J.S. Bach's conservative style and sharply departing from ...
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The 300th anniversary of the birth of J.S. Bach's oldest son occurred in 2010, and this album was one of just a few observances of the event. Biographical data on Wilhelm Friedemann Bach is rather scanty, giving armchair musical psychoanalysts plenty of room for speculation on what it was like to be groomed for success by one of the greatest composers who ever lived. You can speculate yourself after hearing this program of music that varies between staying close to J.S. Bach's conservative style and sharply departing from it. The program is bookended by a pair of trio sonatas, recognizably products of the younger Bach's study of his father's trio sonatas for organ. They are dense works with thick figuration and an accomplished treatment of harmony. One is for a pair of flutes with continuo, the other for flute, violin, and continuo, and they're technically quite challenging. These and the other ensemble works on the album, which include an elegant pair of unaccompanied duos, were probably written for...
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