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Brilliant Classics - J.C.F. Bach: 3 Symphonies - Neues Bachisches Collegium Musicum Leipzig - CD
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Product Details:
- Product Type: CD
- Label: Brilliant Classics
- Composer: Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach (1732-1795)
- Performer: Neues Bachisches Collegium Musicum Leipzig
- Conductor: Burkhard Glaetzner
- Genre: Classical / Symphonic
- Catalog Number: 94780
- Barcode: 5028421947808
- Original Recording: January 1992, Paul-Gerhardt-Kirche, Leipzig, Germany
- Original Release: 1993 Deutsche Schallplatten GmbH Berlin
- Reissue: 2015 Brilliant Classics
- Condition: Brand New, Factory Sealed
Product Features
- Format: 1 x CD, Digital Audio (DDD)
- Number of Discs: 1
- Number of Tracks: 10
- Total Playing Time: 55:36
- Packaging: Standard jewel case, factory sealed
- Licensed from: Edel Germany GmbH
- Manufactured and printed in the EU
Overview
Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach is the least celebrated of Johann Sebastian Bach's composing sons - and that is genuinely unfair. He spent nearly his entire career at the small court of Bückeburg, far from the cultural centers where reputations were made, and his music has suffered for it. These three symphonies, recorded in Leipzig in January 1992 by the Neues Bachisches Collegium Musicum under Burkhard Glaetzner, make a strong case for closer attention.
The Symphony in B flat (W1/20) is the most substantial of the three - four movements, nearly twenty-four minutes, with an opening Largo-Allegro that takes its time establishing atmosphere before the faster material arrives. The E flat Symphony (W1/10) is leaner and more concentrated, all three movements clipped and purposeful. The C major (W1/6) sits between the two in character: its central Andante runs nearly eight minutes and is the emotional heart of the disc.
What connects all three is a style firmly in the galant transition between Baroque counterpoint and Classical clarity - closer to Haydn's early symphonies than to his father's Brandenburg Concertos, but with a harmonic language that occasionally surprises. Glaetzner and the Leipzig ensemble play with period-informed intelligence without the clinical detachment that sometimes accompanies that approach. Total time: 55:36.
Interesting Facts
- Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach was the ninth surviving son of Johann Sebastian Bach and his second wife Anna Magdalena, born in Leipzig in 1732.
- He spent virtually his entire professional life - over fifty years - as court musician and Kapellmeister at the small county of Schaumburg-Lippe in Bückeburg, northern Germany, a geographical isolation that kept him largely out of the main musical conversation of his era.
- His brothers Carl Philipp Emanuel and Johann Christian Bach were both internationally famous during his lifetime; JCF is sometimes called "the Bückeburg Bach" to distinguish him from his more celebrated siblings.
- The Neues Bachisches Collegium Musicum Leipzig was founded in 1979 as a chamber orchestra specializing in the music of the Bach family and the German Baroque-to-Classical transition period.
- Burkhard Glaetzner is a leading German oboist and conductor, long associated with the Leipzig musical tradition and with Brilliant Classics' systematic documentation of lesser-known Bach family repertoire.
- Brilliant Classics has made a sustained effort to record and reissue the complete symphonic output of all four major composing sons of J.S. Bach - C.P.E., J.C., J.C.F., and Wilhelm Friedemann - making recordings like this one part of a larger scholarly and commercial project.
Track Listing
Symphony in B flat W1/20
- I. Largo - Allegro - 8:45
- II. Andante con moto - 6:45
- III. Minuetto - 4:29
- IV. Rondo: Allegretto scherzando - 3:51
Symphony in E flat W1/10
- I. Allegro - 3:06
- II. Andante assai - 6:08
- III. Allegro assai - 3:38
Symphony in C W1/6
- I. Allegro di molto - 4:21
- II. Andante - 7:51
- III. Allegro assai - 6:26
Publishers
Originally recorded January 1992 at Paul-Gerhardt-Kirche, Leipzig, Germany. Originally released 1993 by Deutsche Schallplatten GmbH Berlin. Reissued 2015 by Brilliant Classics under license from Edel Germany GmbH. Manufactured and printed in the EU.
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