JC Bach: Sei Sinfonia

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Release Date: 1st Mar 2010
Catalogue No: GCD920608
Label: Glossa
Length: 63 minutes

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Bach, J C: Sinfona in E flat major, W. B9

Work length11:34

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Nachtmusique

I. Allegro

Track length5:05

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II. Andante

Track length1:55

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III. Menuetto

Track length2:42

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IV. Presto

Track length1:52

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Bach, J C: Sinfonia in B flat major, W. B10

Work length8:35

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Nachtmusique

I. Allegro

Track length2:44

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II. Largo

Track length3:13

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III. Marche

Track length1:11

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IV. Cottilion: Allegro

Track length1:27

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Bach, J C: Sinfonia in E flat major, W. B11

Work length11:11

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Nachtmusique

I. Allegro

Track length2:45

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II. Andantino

Track length3:45

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III. Menuetto

Track length2:53

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IV. Allegro assai

Track length1:48

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Bach, J C: Sinfonia in B flat major, W. B12

Work length9:33

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Nachtmusique

I. Allegro

Track length3:01

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II. Andante

Track length2:28

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III. Grazioso

Track length2:08

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IV. Allegretto

Track length1:56

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Bach, J C: Sinfonia in E flat major, W. B7

Work length13:13

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Nachtmusique

I. Allegro

Track length5:28

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II. Andante

Track length2:48

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III. Marche

Track length2:03

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IV. Allegro assai

Track length2:54

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Bach, J C: Sinfonia in B flat major, W. B8

Work length9:35

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Nachtmusique

I. Allegro

Track length3:31

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II. Larghetto

Track length2:40

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III. Marche

Track length1:31

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IV. Rondeau: Allegro

Track length1:53

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Johann Christian Bach (1735-1782), the youngest son of Johann Sebastian Bach and Anna Magdalena, moved to London in 1762, where three operas were staged rapidly in succession with immediate success. With his reputation established, he settled for good in the British capital where he spent the remainder of his life; thus the epithet, ‘the English Bach’. The works for wind sextet recorded here, his Sei Sinfonia, were published in London, posthumously, in 1782. The Sei Sinfonia adopt the structure of a Classical symphony with four movements in the usual order: opening allegros are in sonata form, followed by lovely, inventive adagios and either a minuet or a march, and ending with terse, quick movements, often in two. Stylistically we see Johann Christian Bach as a major proponent of the ‘galant’ style, considered a move away from the contrapuntal restrictions of his father’s music and as a precursor to the Classical idiom of Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven. But every rule embodies an exception, and although this music is quite poised and indeed ‘galant’, it also seethes with expression of deeper emotion more readily associated with other artistic trends of the era, such as Empfindsamkeit and Sturm und Drang. The instruments used in this recording would have been of exactly the type known to J. C. Bach.

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