CPE Bach
Flute Sonatas – H505, 542.5, 551, 555 & 562
Manuel Granatiero (flute), Marco Ceccato (cello), Yu Yashima (harpsichord); Accademia Ottoboni
Arcana A537 64:54 mins
Only one of CPE Bach’s flute sonatas was published in his lifetime – the solo A minor, H562 – although some 17 are attributed to him, five of which are included on this recording from period instrument ensemble, Accademia Ottoboni. Each varies in its response – always idiosyncratic – to the fashionable mores of the time, to which Bach seemed wilfully resistant. His style, the ‘Empfindsamer Stil’, was all about an appeal to the emotions, an emotive stop-off en route between the Baroque and the Classical, captured here with evocative skill by cellist Marco Ceccato, flautist Manuel Granatiero and harpischordist Yu Yashima.
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