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Notes
As we reflect on Johann Sebastian Bach and his sons, we are all too likely to overlook the fact that there were six sons from two marriages who “inclined towards Music”. True, Maria Barbara’s third son Johann Gottfried Bernhard, born in Weimar in 1715, more or less disappeared from view in 1737, and it is plain that Anna Magdalena’s first son Gottfried Heinrich, born in 1724, was mentally handicapped: “A great Genius, which however was never developed,” wrote his half-brother Carl Philipp Emanuel in the family chronicle. For thirty years, making and writing music, he had been the musical front-runner in Saxony and Thuringia: the vanguard was located wherever he was, in his hands and at his writing-desk. Increasingly, twenty-year-olds and a few late starters in their thirties were coming on to the market and showing Bach a new way forward: the galant style, spreading north from Naples ever since 1715, and the flamboyant, ever more richly ornamented music of the late Baroque, constantly threatening to break down under the weight of emblematic connotation and religious symbolism, in contrast to that simpler form, written by mortals for mortals, distinguished by its slow, easily comprehensible harmony and its truly singable melodies in what was at most an expanded two-part structure.
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Reviews
“… This fine album of works from four Bach family members should delight both baroque admirers and specialist Bach-dynasty enthusiasts. Hänssler Classic can be justly proud of the insightful programme of this rewarding album which includes three world premiere recordings.”
Michael Cookson – MusicWeb-International.com – 8 December 2020
Performance **** Recording *****
Sarah Urwin Jones - BBC Music magazine - April 2020
“… It was to be expected that the Berlin Baroque Soloists under the musical direction of Reinhard Goebel would perform to the best of their ability. In both symphonies they play flexibly, colourfully and expressively, and as the singer’s accompanists they nestle wonderfully to the voice. The baritone Benjamin Appl inspires with a fabulous diction and tasteful phrasing. In terms of vocal culture, artful singing and Bach interpretation he shows himself to be a sovereign master. His extremely warm and very agile voice is as if made for the cantatas and goes far beyond the intellectual view of his teacher Fischer-Dieskau, both vocally and interpretatively. Also worth mentioning is the excellent solo playing of oboist Christoph Hartmann.” *****
Norbert Tischer – Pizzicato.lu – 24 July 2020
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