Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

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Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert: Dorothee Mields and Tobias Koch

Dorothee Mields and Tobias Koch

BBC Radio 3 - Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert, Dorothee Mields and Tobias Koch

Live from London's Wigmore Hall, a song recital dedicated to the music of CPE Bach.

Soprano Dorothee Mields and fortepianist Tobias Koch perform a programme of works by CPE Bach on the theme of kissing.

Early music soprano and fortepianist Tobias Koch perform songs by CPE Bach, interspersed with the composer's solo keyboard music. The theme of the recital is “On Kissing”, and the songs are grouped under the headings: “Vom Küssen allgemein” (On Kissing, in general); "Alles, nur nicht Küssen" (Anything but Kissing); and “Vom Todeskuss aus dem Schierlingsbecher” (On the Deadly Kiss from the Cup of Hemlock) with Heinrich Wilhelm von Gerstenberg’s arrangement of the Fantasia in C Minor, underlaid with Socrates’s monologue on death. The recital concludes with CPE Bach's secular cantata Die Grazien (The Graces), which includes confusion, mistaken identity, and in keeping with the theme of the programme, a kissing game.

Live from London's Wigmore Hall
Presented by Andrew McGregor


Vom Küssen allgemein (On Kissing, in general)

CPE Bach: 
Phyllis Wq. 202/C/2
Lied Wq. 202/L/1
Bevelise und Lysidor: Der Phönix Wq. 200/7
Mittel, freudlich zu werden Wq. 200/16
Die Schlummernde Wq. 202/G/1
Trinklied Wq. 200/13
Fantasia in C Wq. 61/6


Alles, nur nicht Küssen (Anything but Kissing)

CPE Bach: 
Der Weg des Frommen Wq. 194/35
Das natürliche Verderben des Menschen Wq. 194/33
Über die Finsternis kurz vor dem Tode Jesu Wq. 197/29
Prüfung am Abend Wq. 194/7


Vom Todeskuss aus dem Schierlingsbecher (On the Deadly Kiss from the Cup of Hemlock)

CPE Bach: 
Rondo in A minor Wq. 56/5
Fantasia - Monolog des Sokrates from Sonata in F minor Wq. 63/6, arranged by Heinrich von Gerstenberg


Beschluss: die Verwechslung (Resolution: The Confusion)

CPE Bach: 
Fantasia in F Wq. 59/5
Die Grazien Wq. 200/22


Dorothee Mields (soprano)
Tobias Koch (fortepiano, clavichord)

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