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Young & Foolish: Mozart & CPE Bach

Céline Frisch (harpsichord/piano), Alexander Melnikov (piano)

Café Zimmermann, Pablo Valetti

Alexander Melnikov and Céline Frisch live up to the latter ’s name: their touches produce a suave velocity that bubbles through this bright and humorous music like a mountain stream.

Young & Foolish: Mozart & CPE Bach

Céline Frisch (harpsichord/piano), Alexander Melnikov (piano)

Café Zimmermann, Pablo Valetti

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Alexander Melnikov and Céline Frisch live up to the latter ’s name: their touches produce a suave velocity that bubbles through this bright and humorous music like a mountain stream.

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Young and foolish is the title Cafe Zimmermann has chosen for this programme, which features music from the 1770s and 1780s by Mozart and Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, starting with Mozart's famous and sparkling Divertimento KV 138. For this fascinating W.A.-C.P.E. face-off, Cafe Zimmermann has invited an exceptional musician: the fortepianist Alexander Melnikov. They perform the Concerto no.17 in G major KV 453, of which Mozart said in a letter to his father that (like his concertos KV 450 and KV 451) 'they make you sweat'! Melnikov is joined by harpsichordist Celine Frisch, co-founder of the ensemble, in Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach's Concerto for fortepiano, harpsichord and orchestra, the only one of its kind ever composed, a work full of energy and mischief.

Contents and tracklist

I. Allegro di molto
Track length6:01
II. Largo
Track length1:37
III. Presto
Track length3:26
I. Allegro di molto
Track length7:08
II. Larghetto
Track length6:58
III. Presto
Track length4:16
I. Allegro
Track length5:27
II. Andante
Track length5:46
III. Presto
Track length2:08
I. Allegro
Track length11:31
II. Andante
Track length9:20
III. Allegretto
Track length7:33

Awards and reviews

September 2024

Alexander Melnikov and Céline Frisch live up to the latter ’s name: their touches produce a suave velocity that bubbles through this bright and humorous music like a mountain stream.

July 2024

[CPE Bach's double concerto is] formally taut but effortlessly witty, and Alexander Melnikov and Céline Frisch delight in its fantasy, responding to its playfulness without ever forcing the humour.
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