Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment

CPE Bach: Symphonies

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Label: Signum Classics
UPC: 0635212039526
Catnr: SIGCD 395
Release date: 10 April 2015
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Signum Classics
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0635212039526
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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)

REBECCA MILLER A compelling, insightful and energetic force on the podium, conductor Rebecca Miller is acclaimed by press and audiences alike. Her sophisticated music making and command of varied composers and styles, coupled with her ability to communicate with audiences of all ages, have resulted in her increasing demand as a guest conductor throughout the United States and abroad. Rebecca has guest conducted the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Royal Northern Sinfonia, London Mozart Players, London Philharmonic Orchestra, and the BBC Concert Orchestra at the 2014 BBC Proms. She is one of the few annual guest conductors of the Southbank Sinfonia, with whom she continually pursues her advocacy of contemporary American composers. In the US she has conducted the...
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REBECCA MILLER A compelling, insightful and energetic force on the podium, conductor Rebecca Miller is acclaimed by press and audiences alike. Her sophisticated music making and command of varied composers and styles, coupled with her ability to communicate with audiences of all ages, have resulted in her increasing demand as a guest conductor throughout the United States and abroad. Rebecca has guest conducted the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Royal Northern Sinfonia, London Mozart Players, London Philharmonic Orchestra, and the BBC Concert Orchestra at the 2014 BBC Proms. She is one of the few annual guest conductors of the Southbank Sinfonia, with whom she continually pursues her advocacy of contemporary American composers. In the US she has conducted the Houston Symphony, Louisiana Philharmonic, Huntsville Symphony, Musiqa Houston, Bakersfield Symphony, Reno Philharmonic, Williamsport Symphony, Chicago College of the Performing Arts, Santa Cruz County Symphony, and at the Bard Music Festival in New York. She has guest conducted throughout Mexico, including repeated engagements with the Orquesta Sinfonica Nacional and the Orquesta Filarmonica del UNAM, and with the state orchestras of Yucatan, Aguascalientes, and Sinaloa, the Teresa Carreño Youth Orchestra in Caracas, and the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra in Israel. Rebecca’s CPE Bach disc with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment (Signum Records)
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Composer(s)

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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