Johann Christoph Bach: Welt, gute Nacht; Johann Christian Bach: Missa da Requiem – review

English Baroque Soloists/ Gardiner; Soloists, RIAS Kammerchor, Akademie für Alte Musik/ Rademann (SDG; Harmonia Mundi)Two members of the extensive Bach clan: the first Johann Sebastian's distant elder relative whose music he venerated, the other his most successful son. What a difference a couple of generations make: Johann Christoph's intense, concentrated music is worlds away from the extrovert, operatically inclined Johann Christian. CPE Bach called Christoph "the great and expressive compos...

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