Arne, CPE Bach, JC Bach - Harpsichord Concertos
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Label: Australian Eloquence
Cat No: ELQ4825117
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Release Date: 10th March 2017
Contents
Works
Keyboard Concerto no.5 in G minorKeyboard Sonata no.1 in F major
Overture no.1 in E minor
Harpsichord Concertos (6), Wq43
Harpsichord Concertos (6), op.1
Artists
George Malcolm (harpsichord)Academy of St Martin in the Fields
Conductor
Neville MarrinerWorks
Keyboard Concerto no.5 in G minorKeyboard Sonata no.1 in F major
Overture no.1 in E minor
Harpsichord Concertos (6), Wq43
Harpsichord Concertos (6), op.1
Artists
George Malcolm (harpsichord)Academy of St Martin in the Fields
Conductor
Neville MarrinerAbout
In addition to the concertos there are also samples of Malcolm’s brilliant solo playing, including the F major Sonata by Arne (as close to Scarlatti as an English composer ever came) and an exotic set of Variations on ‘Les Folies d’Espagne’ by C.P.E. Bach. His brilliant, mercurial style is well suited to the younger generation Bachs, so different in outlook from their famous father and his dense, contrapuntal language. These recordings of the solo works and the J.C. Bach concerto were made using a large two-manual Goble harpsichord, while the familiar sound of the Thomas Goff instrument is heard in the concertos by C.P.E. Bach and Arne.
Notes are by Peter Watchorn, an Australian-born, US-based harpsichordist, one of whose teachers, Harold Lobb, was also an associate of Malcolm.
‘a stimulating record … splendidly recorded. The brilliance of both composers is most effectively conveyed and the wildness of some of the modulations and the mercurial quality of the faster movements of both the Bach symphony and concerto are arresting’ - (Arne, C.P.E. Bach) Gramophone, November 1968
‘George Malcolm plays [the C.P.E. Bach concerto] with his usual astonishing expertise, and he is also superb in the variations on “La folia” by the same composer. Much of the credit in this excellent disc must be given to the string playing by Neville Marriner and his players … the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields sound [is] marvellously alive and buoyant … Argo are to be warmly congratulated’ - (Arne, C.P.E. Bach) Gramophone, July 1968
‘[the J.C. Bach Concerto] is splendidly played here, with strong rhythms and plenty of nervous vitality … the recording is excellent.’ - (J.C. Bach) Gramophone, October 1969
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