CPE Bach Fantasia F# Minor for fortepiano + violin

[@theophilos0910]

This very forward-looking Sonata for Violin & Klavier in f#-minor by Carl Emmanuel Bach (Wq. 67) was written during the summer of 1787-during the same period that Mozart was working on the ‘darmonic’ Act II of D: Giovanni & the American delegates to the Constitutional Convention were busy hashing out an improvement to the existing Constitution (‘Articles of Confederation’) - a lot happening that year…and the ‘Romantic’ foreshadowing of this Musik is breathtaking

[@baudobill547]

I can hear and feel some heavy metal and rock glimpses in this piece... CPE Bach is great!!

[@Bertrandjm]

This is really a great performance, AK Scheiber is absolutely perfect, in producing some extraordinary sounds, which greatly enhance the piano line, R. Hill also leads a perfect tempo throughout, and both are perfectly synchronized

[@jjwang2314]

What a great treat! Incredible how much a few notes from the violin enhances the music!! (Compare with the solo forte piano version). The greatest lesson for the Empfindsamkeit so far as I know. Thank you so much for researching, performing and uploading.

[@redpenink12]

Can be hard to play this kind of music for sure! an interesting piece. More C.P.E. !

[@wolkowy1]

This is a great masterpiece and performance. One can feel the Romantic spirit in it (in fact Sturm und Drang), even though formally, C. P. Bach was before this era. Bravi to both of you! Thanks also for this special upload that enable us to hear this on those wonderful instruments.

[@elaineblackhurst1509]

wolkowy1 Agreed about it being a great piece and performance; however, it is neither romantic in spirit, nor is it sturm und drang. It is very typical of the empfindsamer Stil - sensibility/sentimentality/sensitiveness - of which CPE and his highly original, intimate and touching compositions are the best examples.

[@davidklein5007]

True. It epitomizes the empfindsamer Stil, in effect. Interesting, too, when one knows this music, to hear echoes of it in such diverse composers as Scarlatti and Duphly.

[@andreagriseri7656]

Mozart for his short pieces for keyboard (Fantasie almost) drew inspiration from K.P.E.Bach. The style of this work is clearly bent towards romantism