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C.P.E Bach: Sonatas & Rondos

~ Mikhail Pletnev (Artist)
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  • Audio CD (14 Jan 2002)
  • SPARS Code: DDD
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Label: Universal Classics
  • ASIN: B00005RCIU
  • Other Editions: MP3 Download
  • Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 98,609 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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Track Listings

1. Sonata In G Minor
2. Rondo In A Major
3. Sonata In C Minor
4. Sonata In D Major
5. Sonata In G Major
6. Rondo In C Minor
7. Sonata In E Minor
8. Antante Con Tenerezza
On this CD:
  1. Sonata for Keyboard in F sharp minor
    Composed by Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
    with Mikhail Pletnev

  2. Sonata for Keyboard in G minor
    Composed by Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
    with Mikhail Pletnev

  3. Sonata for Keyboard in G
    Composed by Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
    with Mikhail Pletnev

  4. Sonata for Keyboard in E minor
    Composed by Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
    with Mikhail Pletnev

  5. Sonata for Keyboard in D
    Composed by Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
    with Mikhail Pletnev

  6. Sonata for Keyboard in A
    Composed by Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
    with Mikhail Pletnev

  7. Rondo in A
    Composed by Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
    with Mikhail Pletnev

  8. Rondo in C minor
    Composed by Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
    with Mikhail Pletnev

  9. Rondo in D minor
    Composed by Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
    with Mikhail Pletnev

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Amazon.co.uk Review
Of the sons of J S Bach, Carl Philipp Emanuel was by far the most interesting composer, as the Sonatas and Rondos played here by Mikhail Pletnev amply demonstrate. In 2001, Pletnev released an exhilarating CD of Scarlatti sonatas: the fact that he played them anachronistically on the piano was in no way allowed to interfere with their intrinsic spirit. Here he repeats the trick, employing plenty of pedal plus the full dynamic force of a modern concert grand, yet he somehow manages to create a quintessentially 18th-century atmosphere. And they're amazing pieces--it's a fair bet that this outstanding disc will help usher them into the mainstream repertoire where they belong. Bach wrote them for an audience of "connoisseurs and amateurs", but that audience must have been a very superior one: to label this style "pre-classical" is woefully to short-change it. Each work feels like a musico-intellectual exercise--an experiment, but riveting every step of the way. Here the spirits of Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven are boldly prefigured, but in a uniquely flamboyant way: dazzling fantasia-like sections, delicately spring-heeled scherzi, massively grave adagios--a whole new musical landscape.--Michael Church

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5.0 out of 5 stars Fanciful Music Right Down Pletnev's Alley, 26 Dec 2005
By J Scott Morrison (Middlebury VT, USA) - See all my reviews
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Mikhail Pletnev can be a maddening pianist in that he can be willful to a fault in some of his performances. For instance, I thought his Schumann disc was simply awful -- I will admit others disagree with that opinion -- although it was obvious he had thought about what he was doing; still it seemed self-indulgent and wayward.

In this collection of C.P.E Bach piano music, though, Pletnev's approach and the music at hand are a perfect match. The younger Bach's music is fanciful, if anything, and it caroms all over the place. That's one of the hallmarks of rococo music and C.P.E. is one of the torch-bearers for that style. The booklet writer talks about the music's 'bizarrerie' and that's a perfect word for it. I suspect this is so in Bach's music because he was trying to forge a new style at least partly in reaction to his father's mathematical precision. This is not 'pre-classical' music in the sense that it presages the style about to come to fruition with Haydn and Mozart. Rather, it is a side-street that probably had more influence on the Romantic period that came after those classical masters. Certainly Bach's tendency was to go where his emotions took him, rather than to force his music into forms that tradition dictated. However that may be, the music is delightful in its own idiosyncratic way and if one simply goes with it, wherever it leads, one is caught up in its emotionality.

Pletnev does this music proud. Indeed, I've not heard anyone approach him in piano music from this period. His virtuosity is breathtaking in the presto movements. There and elsewhere he seems to be innately in tune with the style (although, I imagine this is not so much innate as due to Pletnev's careful analysis of the music he's playing) and I quite enjoy the journey he takes us on.

This CD has brought me a great deal of pleasure over the months that I've owned it. I think it bids fair to do the same for just about anyone who hears it.

Scott Morrison

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars captivating, 27 Feb 2007
I heard a track from this CD played on the radio a few months ago and was immediately captivated. I received it as a gift soon afterwards and have not been disappointed.

To me it sounds as if motifs from J.S. Bach have been put in the hands of a late-Romantic improvisor. The result is sometimes fanciful and idiosyncratic, sometimes delicately beautiful, and sometimes sheer virtuostic brilliance.

I still get a little thrill of delight at the opening bars of the Sonata in C Minor - C.P.E. Bach surely composed it with a mischievous gleam in his eye!
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4.0 out of 5 stars Exhilarating, 25 Mar 2009
By J. Severidt "jornfin" (Rovaniemi, Finland) - See all my reviews
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This is one of those hidden gems one can stumble upon and find oneself wondering why on earth one wasn't aware of their existence.
C.P.E. Bach was one of the most important men in developing piano playing. His treatise on the subject was Mozart's bible and influenced the major pianists of a few generations. Hearing his own compositions is a small revelation. At times he sounds like his father, at other times he seems to anticipate the coming development all the way to Mozart. This is no neat Rococo kitsch. Bach seems to have one foot still planted in his father's late Baroque achievements, and one foot in what was to become Viennese classical music.
You can find minute-long parts which your friends probably will place in the wrong century.
This mixture of J.S.B.'s legacy and a free spirit anticipating the future is exhilarating. This is such fun to listen to, it quickly turned into one of my favorite CDs at the time.
Some might complain that C.P.E.B. played the harpsichord and clavichord most of the time, and that the fortepianos evolving in his day were a long way from the grand piano Pletnev is using. So what? Even J.S.B.'s works are both more moving and more convincing played on a modern piano. And his son clearly favored the pianoforte from the moment it became available. There can be no doubt he would have loved to play Pletnev's instrument! So let the sound in all its nuances convince you, rather than letting historical objections ruin it for you.
The piano is recorded incredibly well. I know of few recordings on this level of excellence.
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