The keyboard works of C.P.E. Bach, Johann Sebastian's most gifted and influential musical son, are among the most striking repertoire of the mid- 18th century. But they require a pianist as brilliant ...

Tom Manoff reviews pianist Mikhail Pletnev's new CD of Sonatas and Rondos by Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach. (3:30) The CD is Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach Sonatas and Rondos by Mikhail Pletnev, from Deutsche ...

Pletnev and CPEBefore we get to one of his many flute concertos later in the hour, we hear a Rondo in C minor CPE Bach wrote for the keyboard. Mikhail Pletnev is at the piano.

In the Adagio of the A major Sonata (H29) gaiety quickly collapses into a Feste-like melancholy, though even Shakespeare’s clown hardly sings more disquietingly of life’s difficulties. The finale from ...

“Many indeed strove to reach up to the level of this colossus, but they were hardly able even to lick his knees.” That estimate of Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach from a contemporary critic makes us smile.