Day 175
W F Bach Sinfonia in F Fk67
CPE Bach chamber orchestra
Hartmut Haenchen
W F Bach was JSB’ first-born son and this comes from half a generation earlier than J C Bach. This shows in this music, which has one foot in the baroque and one in the classical era. I found it fascinating and much more worthy of attention that the music of CPE and JC which I head in the previous two days (admitting that that is only a very small sample).
It is curious mixture of Handel, Vivaldi and Haydn. Much of it has is in the spirit of a trio donate (though there are often independent viola parts) but there are also times when it looks forward to Haydn. The harmonic language is advanced for the time with some very surprising discords and changes of key and there are some rhythmic tricks which Haydn would have been proud of.
All in all I thoroughly enjoyed listening to this music - WF tends to have been overshadowed by CPE and JC. He was certainly less successful in his lifetime and ended up in near poverty, but that is no reason to assume that the judgement of his contemporaries was right.
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