The Calgary Bach Society, under the artistic direction of Terry Edwards, launched what looks to be another interesting and exciting season on Sunday, leading off with an afternoon of carefully ...

13 piano trios squeezed onto just two discs is a steal, but we’re talking CPE Bach and not Schubert, and there’s the issue of whether these pieces are piano trios in the accepted sense. Carl Philip ...

Think of musical perfection and you think of JS Bach. Every note perfectly placed, every harmonic sequence pleasing in its logic, every extended structure immaculately organised. Crucially, Bach's ...

If Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach wrote a dull piece of music, I've not yet heard it. And even if there is a workaday piece or two lurking within his 300 keyboard sonatas, you certainly won't find it on ...

CPE Bach There's a venerable old quotation, attributed to a variety of philosophers and theologians that goes something like this: when the angels make music for their own enjoyment, it's Mozart, but ...

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach was bound to face a posthumous challenge through having had the great Johann Sebastian for a father. It's an added misfortune that his music falls between the stools of the ...

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, son of the great Johann Sebastian, didn't write much for organ. But there's such an idiosyncratically cheeky brio to what he did that it's well worth exploring. Ton Koopman ...

“Many indeed strove to reach up to the level of this colossus, but they were hardly able even to lick his knees.” That estimate of Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach from a contemporary critic makes us smile.

In these days of uncertainty, music can provide a safe haven, an escape, or even a boost of energy. I've found all of that and more in a new recording of the music of Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, the ...

When it comes to the composers that inspired Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, one man in particular stands out: Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach. CPE Bach, as he's often called, was the second oldest and most famous ...

Paul Tortelier was one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century, a staunch campaigner for European unity and, through his son Yan Pascal and his daughters Maria and Pomone, the founder of ...