Mathis Rochat, Stephen Waarts, Camerata Schweiz & Howard Griffiths - CPE Bach - Graun: Viola Concertos (2024) [24/96]

Alongside the flourishing musical life of Germany’s numerous courts and princely seats, which were of equal cultural eminence with the autonomous »free cities« of the Holy Roman Empire, the country’s cultural landscape became further enriched in the last two-thirds of the 18th century by a burgeoning enthusiasm for concert-going among the middle classes. The Prussian capital, Berlin, came to play a special role in this respect because the young kingdom had in Frederick II (the third monarch to be honoured with the sobriquet »the Great«) a ruler who was particularly fond of music. However, the capital subsequently lost out when, long before he became known as »old Fritz«, the young Frederick transferred his courtly household from Berlin to Potsdam. There he presided over a men’s music club and »put on chamber concerts every evening, in which he usually played flute concertos composed by himself«, as described in Nikolaus Forkel’s biography of Johann Sebastian Bach, where we read of the visit by »old Bach« to his son, Carl Philipp Emanuel, then employed as »chamber harpsichordist« to the Prussian king.

Tracklist:
01. Concerto for Cello and Orchestra in B Flat Major, Wq 171: I. Allegretto
02. Concerto for Cello and Orchestra in B Flat Major, Wq 171: II. Adagio
03. Concerto for Cello and Orchestra in B Flat Major, Wq 171: III. Allegro Assai
04. Concertante for Violin, Viola and Orchestra in C Minor, Graun WV A:XIII:3: I. Allegro con spirito
05. Concertante for Violin, Viola and Orchestra in C Minor, Graun WV A:XIII:3: II. Adagio con sordini
06. Concertante for Violin, Viola and Orchestra in C Minor, Graun WV A:XIII:3: III. Allegro assai
07. Concerto for Viola, Strings and b.c. in E Flat Major, Graun WV A:XIII:3: I. Allegretto
08. Concerto for Viola, Strings and b.c. in E Flat Major, Graun WV A:XIII:3: II. Adagio un poco andante
09. Concerto for Viola, Strings and b.c. in E Flat Major, Graun WV A:XIII:3: III. Allegro assai


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