The title of this piece is incorrect. It is the 3rd movement of the of C.P.E Bach's sonata in B minor H245 where it is simply called Cantabile. It is yet another example of pieces picking up incorrect titles for example Hadle's Arrival of the queen of Sheba, Handle's Largo and most famously Pachelbel's Canon
@@rmorrison284 Wrong again; every extant signature of the composer on scores, letters, documents, his will, and everything else, uses his preferred adopted English form - *Handel.* Don’t try correct others unless you know what you are about. Similarly, in the case of the naturalised French composer Lully, to insist on the original Italian Lulli (except as a footnote acknowledging his country of birth) is absurd.
Beautiful piece! C.Ph.E. Bach stands here with one foot in classical era and with one foot in the romanctic era. The piece reminds me a bit of the song "Do not deny love" from Mark Minkov.
This heavily revised 19th century Romantic-style arrangement owes almost nothing to CPE Bach except the melody; the whole thing is totally alien to CPE’s empfindsamer Stil aesthetic. This is about as close to CPE Bach as is Britten’s arrangement of the theme in The Young Persons’ Guide to the Orchestra is to the Purcell original.
A quite heavily edited version of one of CPE's really "expressive" pieces (this score is on the Internet long ago, but who is the editor?). The original contains only melody and bass, here harmony chords are developed and middle voices added. The result is nice and honors the Baroque practice :)
The original sonata is Wq 55 No 3 in b minor and is easily available. What you have here is a heavily edited Romantic-style arrangement of just one movement, mercifully the rest was not attempted, so no more exists than this one piece. The original is almost unrecognisable apart from the sensitive melody, but the arrangement as heard here is about as close to CPE’s original conception as is Britten’s arrangement of the ‘tune’ in his Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra is to Purcell’s original.
