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Keisuke Wakao Plays Bach, Mozart, Britten and Prokofiev

Keisuke Wakao

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 Johann Christian Bach Between 1762 and 1767, Johann Christian Bach composed the Opus 8 quartet series: six two-movement quartets (originally) for flute, violin, viola and cello. The B-flat Quartet is the sixth and first appeared in print in 1772 in London together with the other five quartets as Op. 8. As he had done in his Op. 4 Trios, Bach was still clearly basing his work on examples by Sammartini and Tartini; however, in contrast to the Trios, he goes more for a contrapuntal-motivic movement technique. The simple elegance which characterizes most of his work is equally captivating in the Quartet in B-flat recorded here. As the representative of a galant, yet technically well-balanced style, the youngest son of Johann Sebastian Bach exerted an important influence on the generation to come – thus also on Mozart, who wrote as follows to his father with regard to Bach‘s death: „You probably already know that Bach the Englishman has died? – What a loss for the world of music!”

Tracklist

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1.
I. Allegro
06:05
2.
II. Rondo - Tempo di Minuetto
04:23
3.
I. Allegro
06:54
4.
II. Adagio
03:56
5.
III. Rondeau: Allegro
04:30
6.
Phantasy Op. 2 for Oboe and String Trio
13:48
7.
I. Tema: Moderato - Variation I - L'istesso tempo - Variation II: Vivace
05:49
8.
II. Andante energico
02:41
9.
III. Allegro sostenuto, ma con brio
02:14
10.
IV. Adagio pesante
03:17
11.
V. Allegro precipitato, ma non troppo presto
03:03
12.
VI. Andantino
04:20
13.
"Adagio from the ""Easter Oratorio"" BWV 249 for Oboe and Strings"
04:49

Total time: 01:05:49

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van der Hul

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Everett Porter

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Everett Porter

Recording location

Mechanics Hall, Worcester Massachusetts

Recording Software

Pyramix

Recording Type & Bit Rate

DSD64

Release DateApril 18, 2015

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