C.p.e. Bach: Fantasias - Aapo Hakkinen - Audio CD (Arrives in 50 days)

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714-1788) was the most famous and successful son of the great Johann Sebastian. He was a protagonist of the Empfindsame Stil, intended to express true and natural feelings, featuring sudden contrasts of mood and emotions.

This new recording features a selection of Fantasias, Sonatas and Rondos. “It is particularly in the fantasias that the keyboard player, more than any other musician, can practise a declamatory style, passing audaciously from one affect to another … to spontaneously master the feelings of his listeners.” (C.Ph.E. Bach: Versuch über die wahre Art das Clavier zu spielen, 1753). Also included in this program is the Chromatic Fantasy & Fugue by Johann Sebastian Bach, its central recitative and broken chords audaciously passing through distant harmonies were certainly an example and inspiration for the son.

The recording features two different harpsichords and a Daniel Dörr fortepiano.

Label: Brilliant Classics | Origin: Holland

📌 On Clavichord & Fortepiano