Bach, C.p.e. / Marcello, A.: Oboe Concertos

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Cat No: 8550556

Release Date: 12 January 1999

Label: Naxos - Nxc / Naxos Classics

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Barcode: 4891030505568

Genres: Classical

Composer/Series: BACH, C.P.E. / MARCELLO, A.

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Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714 - 1788)Oboe Concerto in B Flat Major, Wq 164Oboe Concerto in E Flat Major, Wq 165Oboe Sonata in A Minor, Wq 132Alessandro Marcello (1684 - 1750)Oboe Concerto in D MinorCarl Philipp Emanuel Bach was born in 1714 in Weimar, the second son by hisfirst wife of Johann Sebastian Bach, then newly appointed Konzertmeister to theGrand Duke Wilhelm Ernst. He attended the Latin School in Cothen, where hisfather became Court Kapellmeister in 1717, and in 1723 moved with the family toLeipzig, where he became a pupil at the Thomasschule, on the staff of which hisfather had become Cantor. In 1731 he matriculated as a law student at theUniversity of Leipzig, embarking on a course of study that had been denied hisfather. He continued these studies at the University of Frankfurt an der Oderand in 1738, rejecting the chance of accompanying a young gentleman on a tourabroad, he entered the service of the Crown Prince of Prussia at Ruppin asharpsichordist, moving with the court to Berlin in 1740, on the accession to thethrone of the Prince, better known subsequently as Frederick the Great.In Berlin and at Potsdam Bach, confirmed as Court Harpsichordist, had theunenviable task of accompanying evening concerts at which the King, an ableenough amateur flautist, was a frequent performer. His colleagues, generally ofa more conservative tendency, included the distinguished flautist and theoristQuantz, the Benda and Graun brothers and other musicians of similar reputation,while men of letters at the court included Lessing. On his father's death in1750 Bach applied for his position in Leipzig, but was unsuccessful and it wasnot until 1768 that he was able to escape from a position that he foundincreasingly uncongenial, succeeding his godfather Telemann as Cantor at theJohanneum in Hamburg, a city that offered much wider opportunities than Leipzig.Bach spent the last twenty years of his life in Hamburg. In Berlin he had won awider reputation with his Versuch ??ber die wahre Art das Clavier zu spielen(Essay on the True Art of Clavier Playing) and was regarded as the leadingkeyboard-player of his day. In Hamburg he continued to enjoy his establishedposition as a man of wide general education, able to mix on equal terms with theleading writers of his generation and no mere working musician. He died in 1788,his death mourned by a generation that thought of him as more important than hisfather, dubbed "the old periwig" by his sons.As a composer Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach was prolific, writing a considerablequantity of music for the harpsichord. His music exemplifies the theoriesexpounded in his Versuch, with a tendency to use dramatic and rhetoricaldevices, a fine command of melody and a relatively sparing use of thecontrapuntal elements that had by now come to seem merely academic. In musicalterms he is associated with Lessing's theories of sentiment, Empfindsamkeit, thecomplement of Enlightenment rationalism.The two concertos for oboe and strings,
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