With Chris de Souza.
3: In Complete Freedom
"Most of the Berlin musicians have long contrived to stand still," wrote Charles Burney after his visit to the court of Frederick the Great in 1772. For Burney, Quantz was one of them, and he quotes a newspaper from the year of Quantz's death which stated that "he composed 299 flute concertos, and not a bad one among them". CPE Bach, on the other hand, was one of the few musicians who
"dared to have a style of his own". Quantz's Flute Concerto in A is played by Rachel Brown , and his variations Ich Schliefda Traumte Mir by Nancy Hadden (flute) and Paul Nicholson (harpsichord). CPE Bach's Trio Sonata in C minor (Sanguineus and Melancholicus) is played by the Purcell Quartet, and the fourth of his Hamburg Symphonies by the Camerata Bern, conductor Thomas Furi.
Repeated next Wednesday 11.30pm