The English music historian and composer Dr Charles Burney wrote of Johann Sebastian Bachs second-eldest son, Carl Philipp Emmanuel Bach: [His] fantastical...flights are not the wild ravings of ignorance or madness, but the effusions of cultivated genius. C. P. E. Bachs impact on the next generation of composers was immense; Wolfgang Amadeus Mozartwho, as we know, was not given to flatterywrote: [C. P. E. Bach] is the father, we are the children; those of us who can do anything decent learned how from him, and whoever will not admit it is a scoundrel. Luxuriate in exemplars of C. P. E. Bachs and Mozarts. fantastical, kaleidoscopic, abundant imagination; delight in a satiating variety of ideas and astonishing levels of emotional intensity; truth, goodness and beauty: a recital for all lovers of eighteenth-century music.
Helen Kruger - Classical Violin
Geoffrey Lancaster AO - Fortepiano