From the Free Trade Hall
8.B. from Manchester
THE HALLÉ ORCHESTRA
Conducted by Sir HAMILTON HARTY
BACH intended his third son to be a lawyer but grounded him so thoroughly in music, as he did all his boys, that when the lad began his university career he was already an accomplished pianist and a sound musician. There was never much doubt what his future career was to be. Although not so gifted as his disreputable big brother, Friedemann, he quickly won a foremost place for himself in his own day ; he was unsuccessful in an application for his father's post, when the old man died, but held other scarcely less distinguished positions; he remains to this day one of the leading representatives of the generation which succeeded the giants of the age before his own. Elegance and neatness of form were the qualities most admired in his day, so that it is idle to complain that the chief charm of his music lies therein rather than in any big impressiveness like his father's. That very neatness had a large say in the development of music. Modern forms of symphony, sonata, and concerto, as Haydn handed them down to us, owe a good deal to Carl Philipp Emmanuel Bach , as any may hear who listen to the Sinfonia (a symphony in miniature).

Sinfonia No. 2, in E Flat (First Performance in Manchester) - Ph. Em. Bach
Symphony No. 4, in G - Dvorak