. BACH // ‘Sonata in D Major, , H. 559: II. Allegro di molto’

Album release date → April 2023 Stream//Download//Buy → “This album is a story of family and friendship. Positioned between homage to a father figure and modernity, the viola da gamba sonatas of Carl Philipp Emanuel and Johann Christian Bach are a revealing element in the history of the Bach family and its ties of friendship with two families of virtuoso instrumentalists, the Abels and the Hesses, who had already inspired the work of Johann Sebastian. Carl Philipp Emanuel was active in Berlin, encouraged by the presence of the violist Ludwig Christian Hesse and the enthusiasm of his patron Frederick the Great (““When I am not reading, I am writing, and when I am not writing, I am playing the viol““ wrote his nephew, the future Friedrich Wilhelm II). The friendship between Carl Friedrich Abel and Johann Christian gave rise to the latter’s sonatas in London. This Arcana release is not only a continuation of Guido Bale