With Chris de Souza.
4: The True Art
Both CPE Bach and Quantz were dedicated teachers. Bach's Essay on the True Art of Playing Keyboard
Instruments and Quantz's Essay of a Method for Playing the Tranverse
Flute, are instruction manuals which illuminate our understanding of the performing conventions of their day. While CPE Bach was an innovator,
Quantz adhered to convention, yet both demanded that "the performer of a piece must seek to enter into the principal and related passions that he is to express".
The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, conductor
Gustav Leonhardt , perform the fifth of CPE Bach's Hamburg Symphonies, and Trevor Pinnock (harpsichord) is accompanied by the English Concert in the Concerto in G, Wq43 No 5. Barthold Kuijken (flute),
Weiland Kuijken (cello) and Bob van Asperen (harpsichord) play Quantz's Flute Sonata in B flat, and the Paris
Baroque Ensemble perform his Trio Sonata in C minor.
Repeated next Thursday 11.30pm
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