CPE Bach: EMS 9 March

[Beef Oven!]

Here's a link to the listing. The best prices I can find at the moment (just under the £15 import duty avoidance limit) are at the amazon.co.uk marketplace.

Be careful Bryn - the duty limit includes the P&P cost, not just the retail price. So some of these will go over.

P.S. You've changed the link from Amazon listings to Presto?

[Bryn]

P.S. You've changed the link from Amazon listings to Presto?

Yes, for security reasons, and to give a clearer listing.

[MickyD]

Here's a link to the listing. The best prices I can find at the moment (just under the £15 import duty avoidance limit) are at the amazon.co.uk marketplace.

Thank you, Bryn...a bit of a mixed bag, that Archiv set. Some HIP stuff ( I had forgotten Preston and the English Concert did a couple of the flute concertos, surely the first appearance on CD?) but also some old material with Karl Richter. And an interesting CPE Bach songs disc with Fischer Dieskau and Jorg Demus which I didn't know existed.

All the same, I have gone for that DHM set you mentioned earlier..there are quite a few things on there which I don't have and it is a tremendous bargain.

[Beef Oven!]

Yes, for security reasons, and to give a clearer listing.

What are the security reasons? I often post links to Amazon. Is there a risk I'm not aware of?

[Bryn]

What are the security reasons? I often post links to Amazon. Is there a risk I'm not aware of?

Though members here are unlikely to exploit any possible loophole that linking to a page personalised to my account carries, there may be those visiting with hacking skills up to the job. I usually simply link to images on amazon sites.

[Beef Oven!]

Though members here are unlikely to exploit any possible loophole that linking to a page personalised to my account carries, there may be those visiting with hacking skills up to the job. I usually simply link to images on amazon sites.

Bloody heck, I didn't know that could be done. Cheers for the heads-up.

[doversoul1]

I wonder if any EMS fans are ever bothered by where the boundary lies between Early Music and Not Early Music? And do the goal posts shift as time passes? Will Harrison Birtwistle be Early Music one day?

My wonderings were prompted by CPE Bach's Magnificat which opened this week's EMS. The choral and (especially) the string writing were incredibly Haydn-esque...or maybe one should say Haydn was CPE Bach-esque. Whatever, does the Classical Period count as Early? Is Beethoven's 1st symphony Early? Am I dancing on the head of a pin? Is anyone bothered?

I tend to think that the term ‘early music’ is not for placing the music in the development of Western art music, as Baroque, Classical, or Romantic may be, but for referring to some elements in the music.

As far as I am concerned (i.e. entirely non-academic), the essence of early music remains until the harpsichord ceases to sound at home. Some fortepiano works sound, to me, rather like honourable members of early music.

[Beef Oven!]

The Archive box has some fine performances, but short measure. The average disc duration is under 54 minutes, with one being less that 39 minutes. The DHM box, though using original sleeve design presentation, has much better filled discs in general, and is the only one of the three boxes to offer the delightful Wq 47 Concerto for Harpsichord, Fortepiano and Orchestra.

Thanks for setting this out. I'm pretty much in the dark with EM, and I do not knowingly have any CPE. Just ordered the DHM from Amazon for £13.19p.

[MickyD]

It's so weird for Warner to have left out that harpsichord/fortepiano concerto from their box...it is a lovely work but also such an important one historically speaking. In addition, they had two choices from their back catalogue, the Koopman or the first one that I have always loved, with Leonhardt from the vintage years of Das Alte Werk .

[MickyD]

I've just got hold of the DHM CPE Bach box and am delighted to find the two organ concertos (plus organ sonatas) inside it...in crystal clear, lively recordings from the Ensemble Parlando and organist Rainer Oster... a two disc set which came out in 2003 and certainly escaped my notice. Yet another good reason for acquiring this anniversary box.