Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach: Cembalosonaten Wq.49 Nr

Keith Jarrett's interpretation of Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach's Württemberg Sonatas is another significant discovery in this pianist's musical cosmos. "I'd heard the sonatas played by harpsichordists, and felt there was room for a piano version", says Jarrett today. In this outstanding recording from 1994, which had previously remained unreleased, the pianist traces every moment of this expressive music with a sure instinct. The peculiarities of the younger Bach: the gentle playfulness of the music, the preference for subtle and sudden tempo changes, the extraordinary inventiveness ... all of this is wonderfully realized. The flow of the entire performance has a quality that can perhaps be conveyed particularly well by an artist with such great improvisational skills. Stereo 11/2023: "This music lives from its nuances, and Jarrett plays them wonderfully. With a slender grand piano sound, great transparency, finely dosed dynamics and beautiful echo effects, his piano playing always seems natural. He plays the fast movements with drive, and Jarrett's fantasy-like passages seem as free as if he had just improvised them." "The Württemberger Sonatas show Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach on his way from baroque to classical tonal language. Music that lives from its nuances, which Keith Jarrett plays to the full. An affair of the heart." ('Recommendation of the month' in FONO FORUM, September 2023)

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