C. P. E Bach: Flute Concerti

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C. P. E. BACH
C. P. E Bach: Flute Concerti
Emmanuel Pahud (flute) / Hammerakademie Potsdam, Trevor Pinnock (harpsichord & conductor)

[ Warner Classics / CD ]

Release Date: Thursday 10 November 2016

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"Urgent, direct, effortlessly virtuoso to the nth degree, always lyrical and awash with conviction, these are readings that will keep you on your toes...It's also worth parking any sniffiness over modern flutes, for Pahud can produce as dulcet a tone as anybody on a period instrument could." Gramophone Editor's Choice - November 2016

"If CPE Bach's two extremes, of unyielding storminess and emotive lyricism, prove ultimately rather predictable, both Pahud and the tautly disciplined Kammerakademie Potsdam strings under Trevor Pinnock provide an excellent account of this new mid-18th century musical language" BBC Music

Emmanuel Pahud returns to music written for 'The Flute King' with these three concertos by Carl Philipp Emmanuel Bach (1714-88), who spent nearly 30 years on the musical staff at the court of Frederick the Great, a powerful monarch and a highly accomplished flautist. Pahud, the long-standing principal flautist of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, is joined by Kammerakademie Potsdam, directed from the harpsichord by Trevor Pinnock.

Several works by CPE Bach feature on Emmanuel Pahud's Warner Classics album The Flute King, comprising music written for Frederick, which was released in 2011 to this response from International Record Review: "Pahud can equally lay claim to the title of 'The Flute King' … [He] demonstrates a flexibility of phrase that arises naturally from the architectonics of the music rather than being imposed on it by a 'personality'. Despite the modern flute, his ornamentation and articulation are thoroughly idiomatic and chime with his period-instrument collaborators' crispness of attack and cleanly expressive shifts in colour."

All cadenzas are by CPE Bach

Tracks:

Flute Concerto in A minor, Wq. 166 (H430)
Flute Concerto in G major, Wq. 169 (H445)
Flute Concerto in D minor, Wq. 22 (H425)

Emmanuel Pahud records C.P.E. Bach with Trevor Pinnock