SACD, Bach, C P E (composer)
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The Polish period-instrument group Arte dei Suonatori are on top of all Bach's sleights of hand...as fine a survey of CPE Bach's symphonic art as you're likely to come across. —
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2026, Editor's Choice
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Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach: Instrumental theatre of affects - Hamburg Symphonies & Fantasias
Arte dei Suonatori, Marcin Świątkiewicz
The lively small-scale forces help the pungency of the sound but don’t inhibit lyricism, and the jagged rhythms are never too brittle. —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Baroque Instrumental
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Special offer. C.P.E. Bach: Sonatas For Keyboard & Violin
RecommendedRachel Podger (violin), Kristian Bezuidenhout (fortepiano)
Their music-making is infectiously spontaneous yet tellingly ‘considered’ – seamless rapport and impeccably-judged articulation delighting in a stream of illuminating felicities. CPE Bach’s... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, April 2023
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Chamber Music
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2023
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The modern Steinway grand seems a bit of a blunt instrument to convey the full range of Bach's individuality, but Lazic's fastidiously articulated fingerwork and his feel for CPE's cultivated... —
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As with CPE's keyboard concertos, these Berlin symphonies attest to his brilliance and genius...Unless you insist on the use of authentic instruments and eighteenth-century tuning this disc... —
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Special offer. Raymond Leppard conducts Bach & Vivaldi
Heinz Holliger (oboe)
I Musici & English Chamber Orchestra, Raymond Leppard
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Spányi is, as ever, a fastidious player, keenly attuned to Bach's particular brand of Empfindsamkeit, especially in the quasi-improvisatory slow movements. —
