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CPE Bach: Symphonies
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment

CPE Bach: Symphonies

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Format: CD
Label: Signum Classics
UPC: 0635212039526
Catnr: SIGCD 395
Release date: 10 April 2015
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Signum Classics
UPC
0635212039526
Catalogue number
SIGCD 395
Release date
10 April 2015
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About the album

Rebecca Miller leads the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment in a program of five symphonies by Bach’s most productive son. CPE Bach always lived in his father’s shadow, and is now an almost unknown figure, at least beyond the classical cognoscenti. How can such an unknown be considered a game-changer? A listen to his music reveals why - it constantly shifts, wrong-footing the listener when they least expect it with wild directional and color changes - it is bright, effervescent, and a fascinating link between the music of his father (and the Baroque era) and Joseph Haydn (and the Classical era).

Vernieuwende vertolkingen van C.P.E. Bachs symfonieën met passie en nauwkeurigheid
Avant-garde, excentriek, een maniak, wild, avontuurlijk en buitengewoon: dit is hoe de spelers van the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment Carl Philip Emmanuel Bach en zijn muziek omschrijven. Als één van de vele kinderen van Johann Sebastian Bach leefde C.P.E. Bach altijd in zijn vaders schaduw, en is dan ook een onbekend figuur geworden voor velen. Hoe kan een dergelijke onbekende componist worden beschouwd als een vernieuwer? Wanneer men luistert naar zijn muziek wordt duidelijk waarom: de muziek verschuift constant, en het zet de luisteraars op het verkeerde been wanneer men dat het minst verwacht door middel van plotselinge veranderingen van richting en klankkleur - het is helder, bruisend, en vormt een fascinerende relatie tussen de muziek van zijn vader (het barok tijdperk), en Joseph Haydn (het klassieke tijdperk).

The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment voert vijf symfonieën uit van C.P.E. Bach uit onder leiding van Rebecca Miller. Het orkest doet voortdurend muziekhistorisch onderzoek en staat bekend als een orkest met een speciaal geluid, dat met veel energie en inspiratie speelt.


Artist(s)

Rebecca Miller (conductor)

California-born conductor Rebecca Miller has earned international acclaim for her compelling, insightful, and energetic presence on the podium and for her ability to communicate with audiences of all ages. She spreads her work between professional, amateur and youth orchestras and choirs, and is passionate about music’s relevance to our society, artistic citizenship, and championing unduly-neglected female composers. She is currently Director of Orchestras at Royal Holloway University, Principal Conductor of the Royal Orchestral Society, Principal Conductor of the Bishop’s Stortford Sinfonia, and Principal Guest Conductor of the Orchestra of the Swan. She most recently served as Chief Conductor of the Uppsala Chamber Orchestra in Sweden from 2019-2023. Her guest conducting includes the Kuopio Symphony Orchestra, Gävle Symphony, Västerås Symphony, Dalasinfoniettan, Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Orchestra of...
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California-born conductor Rebecca Miller has earned international acclaim for her compelling, insightful, and energetic presence on the podium and for her ability to communicate with audiences of all ages. She spreads her work between professional, amateur and youth orchestras and choirs, and is passionate about music’s relevance to our society, artistic citizenship, and championing unduly-neglected female composers. She is currently Director of Orchestras at Royal Holloway University, Principal Conductor of the Royal Orchestral Society, Principal Conductor of the Bishop’s Stortford Sinfonia, and Principal Guest Conductor of the Orchestra of the Swan. She most recently served as Chief Conductor of the Uppsala Chamber Orchestra in Sweden from 2019-2023.
Her guest conducting includes the Kuopio Symphony Orchestra, Gävle Symphony, Västerås Symphony, Dalasinfoniettan, Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, London Mozart Players, London Philharmonic Orchestra, BBC Concert Orchestra, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, and Royal Northern Sinfonia. In 2017, Rebecca was also featured in the Bruno Walter National Conductors Preview with the Nashville Symphony.
Rebecca’s discography includes CDs with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment (CPE Bach Symphonies / Signum Records, which made the final shortlist for a 2014 Gramophone Award), with the BBC Concert Orchestra (Henry Hadley Orchestral works / Dutton Epoch), and with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra (piano concertos by Amy Beach, Dorothy Howell, Cecil Chaminade / Hyperion Records), and three CDs with the Royal Northern Sinfonia (Haydn Symphonies / Signum Records.
Rebecca is passionate about her work with young musicians – she works regularly with the National Children’s Orchestra and LSO Discovery, and has also guest conducted the National Youth Orchestras of Scotland, Wales, and Great Britain, and the National Youth Orchestra of Venezuela. She was conductor at the Royal Academy of Music’s Junior Department for many years, where she formed the groundbreaking and unique JA Classical Orchestra, and previously served as Associate Conductor of the Southbank Sinfonia in London.
Previously, Rebecca served as Resident Conductor of the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra and American Conducting Fellow of The Houston Symphony, and Assistant Conductor of the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra. She holds a B.Mus. in Piano Performance from Oberlin Conservatory, an M.Mus in Orchestral Conducting from Northwestern University, and for two years was the Paul Woodhouse Junior Fellow in Orchestral Conducting at London’s Royal College of Music.

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Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

It can't be easy to have been a son of the great Johann Sebastian Bach. Bach was undoubtedly very strict, and if you'd have any composition ambitions, you would have to find a way to step out of the shadow of your father. Luckily, his sons had everything going for them considering their music. Whereas the traditional Baroque music of their father slowly went out of fashion, most of Bach's sons managed to follow the new trends of the early Classicism. In other words: relatively simple, melodic music which is not too heavy on the listener, yet still very passionate.  Carl Philipp Emanuel, Bach's fifth son, became the most outstanding among his siblings. Like each of Bach's sons, he received a...
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It can't be easy to have been a son of the great Johann Sebastian Bach. Bach was undoubtedly very strict, and if you'd have any composition ambitions, you would have to find a way to step out of the shadow of your father. Luckily, his sons had everything going for them considering their music. Whereas the traditional Baroque music of their father slowly went out of fashion, most of Bach's sons managed to follow the new trends of the early Classicism. In other words: relatively simple, melodic music which is not too heavy on the listener, yet still very passionate.

Carl Philipp Emanuel, Bach's fifth son, became the most outstanding among his siblings. Like each of Bach's sons, he received a solid education from his father, en Carl Philipp developed into a remarkably talented keyboardist. Moreover, he became a prolific composer and of all Bach's sons, he was able to came closest to the quality of his father's work, albeit in a completely different style.


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