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CPE Bach / Britten - Liaisons Vol.3  | Channel Classics CCSSA28511

CPE Bach / Britten - Liaisons Vol.3

£16.33

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Label: Channel Classics

Cat No: CCSSA28511

Barcode: 0723385285113

Format: Hybrid SACD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Instrumental

Release Date: 31st October 2011

Contents

About

The word 'liaison' can be translated in many ways: affair, affinity, connection, link, relationship, union. The CDs in the Liaisons series each feature two particular composers, enabling us to explore their musical worlds, sources of inspiration and degree of influence. At the same time, the recordings reveal their most conspicuous differences and their common denominators. Some of these composers are not often heard together (for example D Scarlatti & Bartók or CPE Bach & Britten).

However, when time barriers and stylistic differences are put aside, many similarities may be discovered: as if the dialect is different, but the language common. On the other hand, composers who we may imagine to be very similar and easy to combine in any programme (for example Schumann & Brahms), reveal a whole new world of diversity and contrast when heard together. Through a careful choice of composers and compositions on each CD, the Liaisons series offers a bright spectrum of colours, variety and dynamic range, challenging the listener anew with every release.

This third volume combines the very few original works for piano solo by Benjamin Britten with CPE Bach's Prussian Sonatas. Britten's pieces, in all their minimalism, "unusual purity" (Arvo Pärt), perfect clarity and sometimes even emotionally restricted formality, contrast with the emerging Sturm und Drang atmosphere of Bach's sonatas, with their freedom and variety of structural design, lucid style, delicate and tender expression, inventiveness and extreme unpredictability. 

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