C.P.E. Bach: Piano Concertos Berliner Barock Solisten & Michael Rische

• Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714 - 1788): Concerto in C Minor, Wq. 5:
• 1 Bach: Concerto in C Minor, Wq. 5: I. Allegro moderato 07:37
• 2 Bach: Concerto in C Minor, Wq. 5: II. Arioso 08:04
• 3 Bach: Concerto in C Minor, Wq. 5: III. Allegro spirituoso 04:54
• Concerto in A Major, Wq. 8:
• 4 Bach: Concerto in A Major, Wq. 8: I. Allegro 05:41
• 5 Bach: Concerto in A Major, Wq. 8: II. Andante 07:54
• 6 Bach: Concerto in A Major, Wq. 8: III. Allegro 05:27
• Concerto in B Minor, Wq. 30:
• 7 Bach: Concerto in B Minor, Wq. 30: I. Allegro di molto 09:51
• 8 Bach: Concerto in B Minor, Wq. 30: II. Adagio 08:08
• 9 Bach: Concerto in B Minor, Wq. 30: III. Allegro 07:39
• Total Runtime 01:05:15

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Michael Rische belongs to the small group of musicians, even internationally, who consistently enrich musical life with authoritative discoveries. After Michael Rische presented a recording of compositions on the notes b-a-c-h by Johann Sebastian Bach up to the present in the Bach Year 2000, he is working with growing success to re-establish the almost forgotten piano concertos of his son Carl Philipp Emanuel in musical life. With his recordings to date, he has received extensive international attention right from the start. Leipzig 1733: a significant date for a musical genre that has been an integral part of our musical life for more than two hundred years - the piano concerto. In this year Johann Sebastian Bach wrote his great Concerto in D minor BWV 1052 and his second eldest son Carl Philipp Emanuel, at the age of 19, his first piano concerto, the Concerto Wq 1 in A minor. If one listens to the concertos in direct comparison, one hardly wants to believe that both were composed at the same time and in the same place. The Concerto in D major Wq 45 was written in Hamburg in 1778, with two horns added to the orchestral sound. Of all his piano concertos, the Concerto in E minor Wq 15 (1745) is by far the most experimental.

Michael Rische, piano
Berlin Baroque Soloists

Michael Rische
belongs to the small group of musicians, even internationally, who consistently enrich musical life with authoritative discoveries. This need not mean a contradiction to the standard repertoire. For with his recordings of the piano concertos by Beethoven (No. 3 in C minor) and Mozart (No. 20 in D minor), the pianist has also taken an unusual path: These are the only recordings that offer the listener a choice of cadenzas from different eras. On the other hand, his commitment to the music of the 1920s is clearly one of his discoveries: the world premiere or first performance of the piano concertos by George Antheil and Erwin Schulhoff, but also the recording of other works of this "jazz-influenced" style by Copland, Honegger, Gershwin and Ravel have made him internationally known. After Michael Rische presented a CD in the Bach Year 2000 with compositions on the notes b-a-c-h from Johann Sebastian Bach to the present, he is working with growing success to re-establish the almost forgotten piano concertos of his son Carl Philipp Emanuel in musical life. In his anniversary year 2014, there was a Europe-wide direct broadcast from MDR with the Leipzig Chamber Symphony and two of his piano concertos. His recordings to date have received extensive worldwide attention. Michael Rische, born in Leverkusen, studied in Düsseldorf with Max Martin Stein (piano) and with Milko Kelemen (composition).

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