Linos Piano Trio
CPE BACH Complete Piano Trios
- Type CD
- Label CAvi
- UPC 4260085534807
- Catalog number AVI 8553480
- Release date 05 June 2020
About the album
CPE BACH: Complete Piano Trios
„In Hamburg, 1775, Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, by then an internationally celebrated and well-connected figure, was surely aware of the genre’s popularity. After all, his half-brother, the London-based Johann Christian, was central in promoting this new culture of domestic piano playing. Responsive to the market demand, C.P.E. came to an agreement with the London publisher Bremner to publish the following year Six Sonatas for the Harpsichord or Pianoforte accompanied by Violin and Violoncello (Wq. 89). Despite the title, Bach referred to these works at times as Trios, at times as Sonatas, and sometimes even as “Trios (which are also Solos)”.
It seems he didn’t really know what to call them, as they sat in between his previously clear categories of Trios (in the Baroque trio-sonata format of two equal instrumental parts accompanied by basso continuo), keyboard solo works, and the “Soli” (works for various solo instruments to be accompanied by the continuo). His ambivalence towards this fashionable new genre was evident in a letter where he contemptuously referred to the
accompanied sonatas as a “non- or half-entity”.
But regardless, the publication was exceedingly successful, and Bach enjoyed what he probably considered a nice bonus to his usual duties of writing religious choral works: “I am having more luck than I have the right to expect. People are crazy about my modest concoction, from which one may profit.” He published two further sets (Wq. 90 and 91) with Breitkopf in Germany in 1776 and 1777, to great success.
Business acumen aside, these works reveal C.P.E. Bach at the height of his career and are full of invention, expression, and shocking surprises
that at times surpass what even Beethoven might dare to do..…..“ (Excerpt from the liner notes by LINOS PIANO TRIOS)
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11Piano Trio No. 5 e-Moll / in E Minor (Der Schrecken / Terror) I Allegretto
04:54 -
12Piano Trio No. 5 e-Moll / in E Minor (Der Schrecken / Terror) II Larghetto
01:20 -
13Piano Trio No. 5 e-Moll / in E Minor (Der Schrecken / Terror) III Allegro
04:56 -
14Piano Trio No. 2 C-Dur / in C Major I Andantino grazioso
05:03 -
15Piano Trio No. 2 C-Dur / in C Major II Larghetto
01:23 -
16Piano Trio No. 2 C-Dur / in C Major III Allegro
04:36 -
17Piano Trio No. 3 A-Dur / in A Major I Allegretto
05:29 -
18Piano Trio No. 3 A-Dur / in A Major II Arioso
01:11 -
19Piano Trio No. 3 A-Dur / in A Major III Allegro di molto
02:34 -
110Piano Trio No. 6 D-Dur / in D Major (Das Majestätische / The Majestic) I Allegro
02:45 -
111Piano Trio No. 6 D-Dur / in D Major (Das Majestätische / The Majestic) II Andantino
02:56 -
112Piano Trio No. 6 D-Dur / in D Major (Das Majestätische / The Majestic) III Allegro
03:22 -
113Piano Trio No. 1 B-Dur / in B flat Major I Allegretto
05:51 -
114Piano Trio No. 1 B-Dur / in B flat Major II Larghetto
03:11 -
115Piano Trio No. 1 B-Dur / in B flat Major III Allegro
03:46 -
116Piano Trio No. 4 Es-Dur / in E flat Major I Andantino
04:39 -
117Piano Trio No. 4 Es-Dur / in E flat Major II Andante
01:46 -
118Piano Trio No. 4 Es-Dur / in E flat Major III Tempo di Minuetto
02:45 -
21Piano Trio No. 3 F-Dur / in F Major, Wq 91 (Wahnsinn / Madness) I Andante
05:19 -
22Piano Trio No. 3 F-Dur / in F Major, Wq 91 (Wahnsinn / Madness) II Adagio
01:22 -
23Piano Trio No. 3 F-Dur / in F Major, Wq 91 (Wahnsinn / Madness) III Allegretto
03:36 -
24Piano Trio No. 3 F-Dur / in F Major, Wq 90 I Allegro di molto
04:22 -
25Piano Trio No. 3 F-Dur / in F Major, Wq 90 II Larghetto
02:33 -
26Piano Trio No. 3 F-Dur / in F Major, Wq 90 III Allegretto
04:16 -
27Piano Trio No. 1 a-Moll / in A Minor, Wq 90 I Presto
04:05 -
28Piano Trio No. 1 a-Moll / in A Minor, Wq 90 II Andante
01:59 -
29Piano Trio No. 1 a-Moll / in A Minor, Wq 90 III Presto ma non tanto
02:33 -
210Piano Trio No. 2 G-Dur / in G Major, Wq 90 I Allegretto
04:41 -
211Piano Trio No. 2 G-Dur / in G Major, Wq 90 II Larghetto
00:39 -
212Piano Trio No. 2 G-Dur / in G Major, Wq 90 III Grazioso e poco allegro
04:50 -
213Piano Trio No. 1 e-Moll / in E Minor, Wq 91 I Allegretto
04:09 -
214Piano Trio No. 1 e-Moll / in E Minor, Wq 91 II Poco andante
01:03 -
215Piano Trio No. 1 e-Moll / in E Minor, Wq 91 III Allegretto
03:09 -
216Piano Trio No. 2 D-Dur / in D Major, Wq 91 I Allegretto
05:32 -
217Piano Trio No. 2 D-Dur / in D Major, Wq 91 II Andante
00:45 -
218Piano Trio No. 2 D-Dur / in D Major, Wq 91 III Allegretto grazioso
03:59 -
219Piano Trio No. 4 C-Dur / in C Major, Wq 91 Arioso
14:32