C.P.E. Bach - Symphony in G major, Wq. 173 (H. 648)
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714-1788)
Symphony in G major, Wq. 173 [H. 648] (1741)
00:00 - Allegro assai
02:36 - Andante
05:13 - Allegretto
Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin (2001)
"Although written as early as 1741, fourteen years before Bach's second contribution to the genre -- in other words, at the very beginning of his Berlin period -- the G major Symphony (Wq. 173) already has all the features of [his style]: the wild unprepared contrasts in the molding of the strikingly abrupt, stertorous themes, the surprising, often eccentric dynamic impulses, the sometimes bizarre modulatory deviations. All of these features were intensified during the following decade." - Roman Hinke
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