Concerto
CPE Bach
Oboe Concerto in E flat, Wq. 165; Oboe Concerto in B flat, Wq. 164; Symphony in G, Wq. 180; Symphony in F, Wq. 181
Xenia Loeffler (oboe); Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin/Georg Kallweit
Harmonia Mundi HMM 902601 63:12 mins
All the music recorded on this disc was composed in the late 1750s and early 1760s when Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714-88), fifth child and second surviving son of the great Johann Sebastian Bach, was court harpsichordist to the royal household of Frederick the Great. The oboe concertos, both of which exist in probably earlier versions for harpsichord and strings (Wq. 39 & 40), are scored with strings and continuo, while the symphonies further introduce pairs of horns, oboes and, in the case of the G major
