It is not possible to see the sparks, but you can certainly hear them. This disc of five symphonies by CPE Bach, one of JS (Bach’s) many sons, sets off at a cracking pace. Musical fashion had moved on ...

Effervescent performances of little-known, but brilliant, symphonies. Classic FM Drive Featured Album, 2 February 2015. C.P.E. Bach is an almost unknown figure these days, completely overshadowed by ...

Symphony No. 1 Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin Bernhard Forck, Conductor Symphonies Nos 1-4, Movements: Symphony in F Wq183/3 Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin Bernhard Forck, Conductor Symphony No. 2 ...

The Handel and Haydn Society will celebrate one of the most dynamic periods in the history of music with Mozart, CPE Bach, and Friends. H+H Associate Conductor Ian Watson will direct the streaming ...

‘Beyond the Limits’ is the title of this album; and anyone who imagines CPE Bach as a diligent plodder at the court of Frederick the Great is in for a jolt when they discover his ‘Hamburg’ Symphonies ...

Think of musical perfection and you think of JS Bach. Every note perfectly placed, every harmonic sequence pleasing in its logic, every extended structure immaculately organised. Crucially, Bach's ...

Carl Philipp Emanuel, born 300 years ago, was the second son of JS Bach and a fascinating composer who moved from the baroque towards later 18th-century styles. The transformation is well captured ...

First concert in series 'Composers' Jubilee' will be dedicated to Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach's 300th anniversary on Saturday, 22 November at Cairo Opera House "He is the father, we are the children," ...

Signum Classics's publicity cleverly uses descriptions by the period-instrument players from the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment to promote CPE Bach and his work. "Avant-garde," they say, ...