OAE/Norrington – review

Queen Elizabeth Hall, LondonHaving a famous father didn't further Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach's career while he was alive, and it certainly doesn't help it now. Johann Sebastian's second son is today so much in his father's shadow that this programme by the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, entitled The Other Amazing Mr Bach, offers fresh revelations.To anyone who wonders how JS Bach's baroque geometry morphed into the classical curves of Haydn and Mozart, CPE Bach's music provides an answer....

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