Johann Christian Bach – Concerto for Pianoforte Op. 13 No. 6 in E flat (1777) with Anders Muskens

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THE WORLD OF THE COURT ORCHESTRA IN MANNHEIM,1742-1778 (NOW AVAILABLE FROM ETCETERA RECORDS)
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Johann Christian Bach (1735 - 1782) – Concerto for the Pianoforte Op. 13 No. 6 in E flat (1777)
I. Allegro
II. Tempo di Menuetto

Soloist: Anders Muskens
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Square pianoforte by Longman & Broderip in London c. 1787, restored by Paul Kobald in Amsterdam c. 2018
with Das Neue Mannheimer Orchester
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We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts | Conseil des arts du Canada, the Adriana Jacoba Fond, and SENA for making this album possible.
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ABOUT THE COMPOSER
Johann Christian Bach (1735-1782) was the youngest son of Johann Sebastian Bach. Unlike any other member of the Bach family, he would move to Italy, become Catholic, and wrote mainly opera and sacred music. He was hired by Queen Charlotte of Great Britain and subsequently established himself in London, where he promoted the new-at-the-time pianoforte in public performances, performed in fashionable concerts with his friend Carl Friedrich Abel, and produced a multitude of opera seria for the King’s Theatre at the Hay-Market. His symphonies, chamber works, and keyboard pieces were published and widely disseminated throughout Europe. He was commissioned to write two operas in Mannheim: Temistocle (1772) and Lucio Silla (1776). Amor Vincitore is a serenata written in 1774 for the theatre at Elector Carl Theodor’s summer residence in Schwetzingen, whose performance was attended by Gluck. Bach dedicated his Op. 11 wind quintets to the Elector, and his cantata La tempesta was published in Georg Vogler’s Betrachtungen der Mannheimer Tonschule. The instrument used in this recording of the concerto is an original Longman & Broderip square pianoforte, made in London in 1787 and restored by Paul Kobald in 2018.

The recordings were made at the Oud Katholieke Kerk, Delft, in the Netherlands.

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