J.C. Bach - Sextet in C major

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Johann Christian Bach (1735-1782)
Sextet in C major for oboe, 2 horns, violin, cello, & keyboard (c. 1775)
00:00 - Allegro
07:22 - Larghetto
12:31 - Rondo: Allegro
Oboe - David Reichenberg
Horns - Anthony Halstead & David Cox
Violin - Simon Standage
Violoncello - Anthony Pleeth
Fortepiano - Trevor Pinnock
(1988)
"The authorship of the Sextet in C major has sometimes been erroneously attributed to Bach's older brother Johann Christoph Friedrich, the 'Bückeberg Bach', on the evidence of a cello part in the latter's hand, which survived in a Berlin library until the Second World War. This theory has been thoroughly discredited and there can be no doubt of the work's true authorship. We cannot precisely date its composition (it was posthumously published by Johann André of Offenbach as op. 3 c.1783). The first movement is a reworking of a sonata for harp, violin and cello, which Bach wrote for the Welsh harpist Edward Jones, who came to London from Wales around 1774 or 1775. It must be assumed that the Sextet dates from after this time.
Its scoring has no obvious parallels in 18th-century chamber-music: the basic quartet of oboe, violin, cello and keyboard provides the main musical material, while two horns enrich the texture in the outer movements. The keyboard has a prominent concertante role, but, in contrast to the Quintet op. 22, it more frequently blends with, or accompanies, the other instruments and is only occasionally used as a contrast to the massed group. The central Larghetto resembles one of Bach's operatic arias: the oboe has a fine-spun catilena, the violin and cello share in the accompanimental patterns, and the texture is bound together by the broken chords of the keyboard part. After a half close in G, a flourish on the oboe leads into the Rondo finale. Here, the C section of the ABACA structure is in F major. The keyboard and horns fall silent, as the oboe, violin and cello take over in a vivacious and virtuosic dance." - Stephen Roe
Painting: Vine Leaves, Caroline Friederike Friedrich

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@mrbigarms 6 лет назад

Over the years I've listened to a huge amount of JC Bach and constantly amazed at his huge output of music. He had the ability to compose beautiful melodies incorporated into perfectly formed works. I think this Sextet is one of his finest works.

@markusboyd4834 5 лет назад

Indeed. Bach was a leading proponent of the Italian School; only the best end up working as music director's for royalty

@elaineblackhurst1509 4 года назад

Markus Boyd Just for the record: Bach’s title as Music Master to Queen Charlotte (wife of George III), was largely honorary, though financially helpful. Almost all JC’s music was written for London concert or opera audiences, not royalty; in addition, he was able to undertake a number of foreign commissions for operas from Mannheim and Paris for example. Royal, aristocratic, and Church patronage of music in England - with occasional exceptions earlier in the century - were almost irrelevant when compared to Vienna, much of Germany, and elsewhere on the continent. In England, resident composers like Handel and JC Bach, along with later visitors like Haydn, made their money through concerts, theatres, public subscriptions, publishing their music, and the like, and they worked through impresarios and other professional bodies.

@hannulampila4424 3 года назад

Lovely spring music. It makes one to feel happy.

@williamdane4194 3 года назад

This piece is so enjoyable and happy/playful.

@simonkawasaki4229 6 лет назад

Pleasant and calming score. The picture really fits.

@bpage4132 5 лет назад

What a great performance from the English Concert directed from the fortepiano by Trevor Pinnock,who founded the ensemble in 1973,when I was 6 years old at the time,and this music reminds me like Haydn and Mozart,and I like this work so much and well performed.

@gerardbegni2806 6 лет назад

This a quite pleasent score in which the oboe and the viloin share the treble partts while the intermediate partts are played by the horns. the voice of the clavier is not neglected and we can hear it in some sections. The central movement highlights the solo oboe.