Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, Johann Sebastian’s second surviving son, is full of surprises. You only have to listen to the opening movement of his F sharp minor sonata, composed in 1744, to appreciate ...

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714-88), second son of Johann Sebastian, was no pale imitation of his father. He had ideas of his own, as the bristling, thoughtful and imaginative playing on this disc ...

Tom Manoff reviews pianist Mikhail Pletnev's new CD of Sonatas and Rondos by Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach. (3:30) The CD is Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach Sonatas and Rondos by Mikhail Pletnev, from Deutsche ...

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 ...

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 ...

Fortepianist Kristian Bezuidenhout (bih-ZAY-den-hoat) joins Fred Child in NPR's Studio 4A. Bezuidenhout is a 24-year-old pianist from South Africa who plays both fortepiano and modern piano. When he's ...

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In the last days of July he Finnish pianist Tuija Hakkila left behind the endless summer twilights of her own country for a few days of lower latitudes and earlier nightfalls in Upstate New York. At ...

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, the second son of Johann Sebastian, was born in 1714 in Weimar, Germany. A prank-loving, high-spirited child, he studied music with his father before going on to read law at ...

When it comes to musical dynasties, it's tough to top the Bach family. From town fiddlers to court composers, the Bachs dominated German music for seven generations. Today, Johann Sebastian towers ...