Johann Christian Bach - Piano Concerto No. 3, Op. 1 (1763) [Haebler]

[@russellryan7571]

Wonderful and beautifully performed. Ingrid Haebler was a champion of Mozart's and Bach's music. RIP, and many thanks for your countless glorious recordings!

[@notaire2]

Wunderschöne und elegante Interpretation dieses kompakten und fein komponierten Konzerts mit klarem doch warmherzigem Klang des unvergleichlichen Solofortepianos sowie gut harmonisierten und perfekt entsprechenden Tönen der anderen Instrumente. Der zweite Satz klingt echt schön und auch elegant. Der intelligente und erfahrene Dirigent leitet das ausgezeichnete Kammerorchester im angemessenen Tempo und mit angenehmer Dynamik. Einfach fazinierend!

[@liquiditey]

I wonder what the Viennese trio would of sounded like without JCB's influence ? =~}

[@elaineblackhurst1509]

JC Bach was hugely important to Mozart whose admiration for him was both genuine and lifelong. JC Bach was almost irrelevant to Haydn who during his Eszterhaza years 1761-1790 performed not one single work by JC Bach. It is doubtful that Beethoven knew very much at all about JC Bach whose lightweight, galant and Italianate style comes from a different universe from anything on Planet Beethoven (ditto Haydn). JC Bach’s feminine and beautifully cantabile lines are much more in tune with Mozart, but stand in sharp contrast to the more masculine, instrumentally conceived music of Haydn and Beethoven.

[@rman52]

If it wasn't for dad overshadowing them, Johan and Carl would have historically been considered among the great composers. Of course without dad, they wouldn't have had his great tutelage.

[@hortleberrycircusbround9678]

Wait, hold on.....isn't C.P E. better than both of them ?

[@rman52]

@@hortleberrycircusbround9678 Carl is CPE.

[@elaineblackhurst1509]

CPE Bach was known as ‘Emanuel’ Bach, not Carl; similarly, his father was ‘Sebastian’. Johann Christian was sometimes known as ‘John’ Bach in England to where he moved permanently in 1762 and spent the rest of his life; you can see from the French edition of these works at the top of this video that he was also referred to as ‘J Bach’ in Paris as well. JC’s great admirer Mozart - and others - referred to him as the ‘English’ Bach.

[@rman52]

@@elaineblackhurst1509 Only Carl's immediate family called him by his middle name as a nick name. A more interesting fact is that the great composer Teleman was his Godfather.

[@elaineblackhurst1509]

@@rman52 Emanuel Bach’s godfather is musically irrelevant; your point about him being referred to as ‘Carl’ is as bizarre as it is inaccurate - he was universally known as ‘Emanuel Bach’, as for example, he is referred to by Haydn to his early biographers Griesinger and Dies. Do you really have any clue whatsoever about what you are speaking ? The propagation of your misinformation serves no purpose whatsoever, other than to wonder why you ever replied to my correction of your initial error; it’s Sebastian and Emanuel Bach, and ‘Carl’ is simply ignorance of a scale only to be found amongst KZbin’s amateur know-very-little-but-wannabe-erudite commentators.