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Light and Darkness - C.P.E. Bach: Flute Sonatas

Accademia Ottoboni

Light and Darkness - C.P.E. Bach: Flute Sonatas
The playing is superb, as is the increasing versatility of the flute, each sonata played on a different instrument based on one from the period...A fine recording quality underlines the resonance...

Light and Darkness - C.P.E. Bach: Flute Sonatas

Accademia Ottoboni

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The playing is superb, as is the increasing versatility of the flute, each sonata played on a different instrument based on one from the period...A fine recording quality underlines the resonance...

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Manuel Granatiero presents his first solo album, following several successful concerto recordings with Amandine Beyer's Gli Incogniti and Accademia Ottoboni, of which he is a founding member. Here, Manuel is joined by Yu Yashima and Marco Ceccato, as he turns his attention to the flute music of C. P.E. Bach. The outcome of this project is 'Light and Darkness', five sonatas chosen from the substantial oeuvre that the composer dedicated to this instrument. In addition to the famous sonata for solo flute, the programme includes two sonatas with harpsichord obbligato and two sonatas with basso continuo. Demonstrating a wealth of stylistic and writing variety, they represent the entirety of the period in which Bach composed his surviving flute sonatas: BWV1020 written in his youth at his father's house in Leipzig, Wq124 written during his early years of study in Frankfurt, Wq128 and Wq132 during his service at the court of Frederick II, and Wq83 during his mature years in Hamburg. This is therefore a miniature exploration of the universe of the 'Berlin Bach' through some of his most intimate works that encourage us to experience the most diverse human emotions, from the darkest to the brightest ones.

Contents and tracklist

I. Andante
Track length3:13
II. Allegro
Track length4:14
III. Vivace
Track length3:51
I. Allegro
Track length3:36
I. Adagio
Track length2:56
III. Allegro
Track length4:43
I. Adagio ma non tanto
Track length4:31
II. Allegro
Track length5:18
III. Allegro
Track length3:25
I. Allegro un poco
Track length4:10
II. Largo
Track length5:15
III. Allegro
Track length6:01
I. Adagio
Track length2:29
II. Allegro
Track length1:45
III. Minuet
Track length2:30

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Awards and reviews

Christmas Issue 2022

The playing is superb, as is the increasing versatility of the flute, each sonata played on a different instrument based on one from the period...A fine recording quality underlines the resonance and subtlety of sound.

January 2023

Essentially, 10 seconds into this album and you’re already wrapped in a sound and atmosphere you want to wallow in...This may be Granatiero’s first solo venture but one hopes it won’t be his last.
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