C.P.C. Bach Piano Concertos Wq. 7 - Wq.37 - Wq.42 Michael Rische & Berliner Barock Solisten

• C.P.E. Bach (1714 - 1788): Allegro:
• 1 Bach: Allegro 09:30
• Adagio:
• 2 Bach: Adagio 07:15
• Allegro:
• 3 Bach: Allegro 04:49
• Allegro assai:
• 4 Bach: Allegro assai 08:41
• Andante ed arioso:
• 5 Bach: Andante ed arioso 05:40
• Presto:
• 6 Bach: Presto 05:30
• Allegro:
• 7 Bach: Allegro 07:00
• Larghetto:
• 8 Bach: Larghetto 07:11
• Poco Presto:
• 9 Bach: Poco Presto 06:56
• Total Runtime 01:02:32

Info for C.P.C. Bach Piano Concertos Wq. 7 - Wq.37 - Wq.42

"For fifteen exciting years the manuscripts of Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach's keyboard concertos have held me in their thrall. Both delightful and challenging at the same time, a hitherto unpublished and therefore completely unknown world revealed it's hidden beauties. With an eighth album, my series comprising around half of all the available keyboard concertos now comes to an end. This musical form - according to Emanuel Bach himself his 'most personal' - occupied the composer repeatedly throughout his lifetime. From the astonishingly self-confident concerto Wq1 by a 19-year-old to the cheerfully ironic Wq47 from the year of his death, a long and very fruitful career is illustrated by the search for distinctive new means of expression. As later with the symphonies composed in Hamburg, Emanuel Bach here also took 'all the liberties he needed'. We find bold innovation as well as exuberant kinetic joy, exquisite chromaticism and demanding virtuosity alongside profound contemplation." (Michael Rische)

Michael Rische, piano
Berliner Barock Solisten

Michael Rische
belongs to a small group of musicians, even internationally, who consistently enrich musical life with significant discoveries. This doesn't have to contradict the standard repertoire. With his recordings of the piano concertos by Beethoven (No. 3 in C minor) and Mozart (No. 20 in D minor), the pianist has once again taken an unusual path:

These are the only recordings that offer the listener a choice between cadenzas from different eras.

His commitment to the music of the 1920s, however, is clearly one of his discoveries: The premieres and first performances of the piano concertos by George Antheil and Erwin Schulhoff, as well as the recording of further works in this "jazz-influenced" style by Copland, Honegger, Gershwin, and Ravel, have made him internationally renowned. These seven piano concertos were recently re-released as a double CD by Hänssler CLASSIC.

After Michael Rische released a recording of compositions on the notes "b-ac-h" from Johann Sebastian Bach to the present day in the Bach anniversary year of 2000, he has been working with increasing success to re-establish the almost forgotten piano concertos of his son Carl Philipp Emanuel in musical life. His recordings to date have garnered extensive international acclaim from the very beginning. In CPE Bach's anniversary year of 2014, a Europe-wide live broadcast from MDR Leipzig two of his piano concertos.

Michael Rische, born in Leverkusen, studied in Düsseldorf with Max Martin Stein (piano) and Milko Kelemen (composition). He also received decisive inspiration from Rudolf Serkin, Pierre Boulez, and Nicolaus Harnoncourt.

His collaborations with conductors such as Sylvain Cambreling, Yuri Simonow, Christoph Poppen, Grant Llewellyn, Michael Boder, Wayne Marshall, and Rumon Gamba, and orchestras such as the Staatskapelle Berlin, the WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne, the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestre National de Belgique, the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, the Bamberg Symphony, and the BBC Symphony Orchestra London have opened concert halls in Europe, Israel, the USA, and China to him. Michael Rische was artist-in-residence at the International Kurt Weill Festival in Dessau.

Twenty CDs as a soloist with EMI, Universal, Sony, and Hänssler CLASSIC provide insight into his repertoire. Alexander Kluge also made a television documentary about his Bach discoveries. Michael Rische teaches a piano class as a professor at the Cologne University of Music.

Booklet for C.P.C. Bach Piano Concertos Wq. 7 - Wq.37 - Wq.42