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Sonatas with Varied Reprises, Wq 50
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

Tom Beghin

Sonatas with Varied Reprises, Wq 50

Price: € 19.95
Format: CD
Label: Evil Penguin
UPC: 0608917725322
Catnr: EPRC 0066
Release date: 25 October 2024
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Label
Evil Penguin
UPC
0608917725322
Catalogue number
EPRC 0066
Release date
25 October 2024
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About the album

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach’s Sonatas with Varied Reprises (comp. 1758–9, publ. 1760) constituted a bold experiment. Spelling out every repeat, Bach applies to each the art of variation. Starting off as a service (“play this and you’ll sound as if you’re improvising”), the opus ends up a masterclass in variation. Tom Beghin, playing his own beloved clavichord, enacts the role of the keyboardist- composer who repeats himself, while never saying the same thing twice.

Artist(s)

Tom Beghin (piano)

Tom Beghin combines a career as performer with that of researcher and teacher. His published work spans different media, from commercially released CDs and films to academic essays and books. His work on Beethoven's 1803 Erard piano resulted in the book Beethoven's French Piano: A Tale of Ambition and Frustration (Chicago, 2022, winner of the American Musical Instrument Society's 2024 Nicholas Bessaraboff Prize) and a double CD (Evil Penguin Records, 2020, winner of the 2020 Caecilia Prize from the Belgian Music Press). The year 2017 saw the birth of Inside the Hearing Machine, an amalgam of publications on Beethoven's late piano sonatas and deafness. His monograph The Virtual Haydn: Paradox of a Twenty-First-Century Keyboardist (Chicago, 2015) followed his recording of the complete solo Haydn keyboard works (Naxos 2009/2011, nominated for...
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Tom Beghin combines a career as performer with that of researcher and teacher. His published work spans different media, from commercially released CDs and films to academic essays and books. His work on Beethoven's 1803 Erard piano resulted in the book Beethoven's French Piano: A Tale of Ambition and Frustration (Chicago, 2022, winner of the American Musical Instrument Society's 2024 Nicholas Bessaraboff Prize) and a double CD (Evil Penguin Records, 2020, winner of the 2020 Caecilia Prize from the Belgian Music Press). The year 2017 saw the birth of Inside the Hearing Machine, an amalgam of publications on Beethoven's late piano sonatas and deafness. His monograph The Virtual Haydn: Paradox of a Twenty-First-Century Keyboardist (Chicago, 2015) followed his recording of the complete solo Haydn keyboard works (Naxos 2009/2011, nominated for a Juno Award by The Canadian Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences). He also co-edited Haydn and the Performance of Rhetoric (Chicago, 2007, winner of the 2009 American Musicological Society's Ruth Solie Award).
Alumnus of the HIP-doctoral program at Cornell University, Tom Beghin served on the faculties of the University of California, Los Angeles, and the Schulich School of Music, of McGill University (Montreal). Since 2015, Prof. Beghin has been Senior Researcher and Principal Investigator at the Orpheus Institute for Advanced Studies & Research in Music, in Ghent, Belgium, and since 2024 holds a professorship again at KU Leuven. His research cluster, Declassifying the Classics, focuses on the intersections of technology, rhetoric, and performance.


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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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Disc #1
01.
Sonata in F Major, Wq 50/1: I. Allegretto
03:57
(Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach) Tom Beghin
02.
Sonata in F Major, Wq 50/1: II. Largo
01:45
(Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach) Tom Beghin
03.
Sonata in F Major, Wq 50/1: III. Vivace
03:47
(Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach) Tom Beghin
04.
Sonata in G Major, Wq 50/2: I. Allegretto
06:45
(Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach) Tom Beghin
05.
Sonata in G Major, Wq 50/2: II. Poco adagio
02:43
(Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach) Tom Beghin
06.
Sonata in G Major, Wq 50/2: III. Allegro assai
03:23
(Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach) Tom Beghin
07.
Sonata in A minor, Wq 50/3: I. Presto
04:04
(Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach) Tom Beghin
08.
Sonata in A minor, Wq 50/3: II. Largo
03:23
(Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach) Tom Beghin
09.
Sonata in A minor, Wq 50/3: III. Allegro moderato ma innocentemente
03:48
(Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach) Tom Beghin
10.
Sonata in D Minor, Wq 50/4: I. Allegretto grazioso
06:25
(Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach) Tom Beghin
11.
Sonata in D Minor, Wq 50/4: II. Adagio sostenuto
02:01
(Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach) Tom Beghin
12.
Sonata in D Minor, Wq 50/4: III. Allegro
05:48
(Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach) Tom Beghin
13.
Sonata in B-flat Major, Wq 50/5: . Poco allegro
07:36
(Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach) Tom Beghin
14.
Sonata in B-flat Major, Wq 50/5: II. Larghetto
02:56
(Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach) Tom Beghin
15.
Sonata in B-flat Major, Wq 50/5: III. Tempo di minuetto
06:52
(Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach) Tom Beghin
16.
Sonata in C minor, Wq 50/6: Allegro moderato
09:26
(Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach) Tom Beghin

Disc #2
01.
Sonata in F Major, Wq 50/1: I. Allegretto
03:57
(Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach) Tom Beghin
02.
Sonata in F Major, Wq 50/1: II. Largo (with additional variants)
01:44
(Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach) Tom Beghin
03.
Sonata in F Major, Wq 50/1: III. Vivace
03:46
(Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach) Tom Beghin
04.
Sonata in G Major, Wq 50/2: I. Allegretto
06:46
(Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach) Tom Beghin
05.
Sonata in G Major, Wq 50/2: II. Poco adagio (with additional variants)
02:41
(Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach) Tom Beghin
06.
Sonata in G Major, Wq 50/2: III. Allegro assai
03:24
(Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach) Tom Beghin
07.
Sonata in A Minor, Wq 50/3: I. Presto
04:03
(Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach) Tom Beghin
08.
Sonata in A Minor, Wq 50/3: II. Largo (with additional variants)
03:15
(Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach) Tom Beghin
09.
Sonata in A Minor, Wq 50/3: III. Allegro moderato ma innocentemente (with additional variants)
03:59
(Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach) Tom Beghin
10.
Sonata in D Minor, Wq 50/4: I. Allegretto grazioso
06:25
(Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach) Tom Beghin
11.
Sonata in D Minor, Wq 50/4: II. Adagio sostenuto (with additional variants)
02:00
(Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach) Tom Beghin
12.
Sonata in D Minor, Wq 50/4: III. Allegro (with additional variants)
05:49
(Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach) Tom Beghin
13.
Sonata in B-flat Major, Wq 50/5: I. Poco allegro (with additional variants)
07:36
(Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach) Tom Beghin
14.
Sonata in B-flat Major, Wq 50/5: II. Larghetto (with additional variants)
03:07
(Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach) Tom Beghin
15.
Sonata in B-flat Major, Wq 50/5: III. Tempo di minuetto (with additional variants)
06:50
(Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach) Tom Beghin
16.
Sonata in C Minor, Wq 50/6: Allegro moderato
09:26
(Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach) Tom Beghin
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