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Bach: Flute Quartets op. 19

Bach: Flute Quartets op. 19
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  1. Quartet for 2 flutes, viola & cello in C major Op. 19/1, CW B61 (T. 307/4): Allegro
  2. Quartet for 2 flutes, viola & cello in C major Op. 19/1, CW B61 (T. 307/4): Andante
  3. Quartet for 2 flutes, viola & cello in C major Op. 19/1, CW B61 (T. 307/4): Rondo: Allegretto
  4. Quartet for 2 flutes, viola & cello in D major Op. 19/2, CW B62 (T. 308/1): Allegro
  5. Quartet for 2 flutes, viola & cello in D major Op. 19/2, CW B62 (T. 308/1): Andante
  6. Quartet for 2 flutes, viola & cello in D major Op. 19/2, CW B62 (T. 308/1): Allegro Assai
  7. Quartet for 2 flutes, viola & cello in G major Op. 19/3, CW B63 (T. 308/4): Allegro
  8. Quartet for 2 flutes, viola & cello in G major Op. 19/3, CW B63 (T. 308/4): Andantino
  9. Quartet for 2 flutes, viola & cello in G major Op. 19/3, CW B63 (T. 308/4): Rondo: Allegretto
  10. Quartet for 2 flutes, viola & cello in C major Op. 19/4, CW B64 (T. 308/7): Allegro
  11. Quartet for 2 flutes, viola & cello in C major Op. 19/4, CW B64 (T. 308/7): Andantino
  12. Quartet for 2 flutes, viola & cello in C major Op. 19/4, CW B64 (T. 308/7): Allegro

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  • Amazon Sales Rank: #278133 in Music
  • Released on: 1998-09-29
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Dimensions: .24 pounds

Customer Reviews

Perhaps J.C. Bach's greatest chamber music5
These four quartets were written for a connoisseur and, dating from probably 1780, are the pinnacle of his chamber music. They deserve to be known as well as his Symphony in g minor, Op. 6 #6, and his effervescent piano concerto Op. 7 #5. This is fully mature classical-period chamber music for the flute, and all four works, in each of their three movements, are quite powerful in their own ways. Especially, listen to the first movement of Op. 19 #4: it has a sweep and grandeur one associates with Schubert. The ensemble plays with discreet fortepiano continuo as J.C. Bach performed these works with some of the most outstanding instrumentalists in London at the time for his and their own private amusement (never mind the less musically sensitive for whom he usually "wrote down"). These period-instrument performances are utterly satisfying and capture perfectly the sense of the music.