Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach - Symphony B-flat major, ; (1773)

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (8 March 1714 – 14 December 1788), also formerly spelled Karl Philipp Emmanuel Bach, was a German Classical period musician and composer, the fifth child and second (surviving) son of Johann Sebastian Bach and Maria Barbara Bach. His second name was given in honor of his godfather Georg Philipp Telemann, a friend of Johann Sebastian Bach. Symphony in B-flat Major, ; Wq. 182/2 (1773) 1. Allegro di molto 2. Poco adagio (3:25) 3. Presto (7:03) English Chamber Orchestra conducted by Trevor Pinnock In Hamburg, Bach wrote a major set of six string symphonies for Gottfried van Swieten, Wq. 182. These works were not published in his lifetime (van Swieten, who had commissioned them to be written in a more “difficult“ style, preferred to retain them for private use), but since their rediscovery, have become increasingly popular. To distinguish him from his brother Johann Christian, the “London Bach,“ who at this time was music master to the Queen of England,C. P. E. Bach was known as the “Berlin Bach“ during his residence in that city, and later as the “Hamburg Bach“ when he succeeded Telemann as Kapellmeister there. To his contemporaries, he was known simply as Emanuel.