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Reviewer:
Michael Ullman Previously, I have praised in these pages the 14-disc set of Christine Schornsheim playing Haydn sonatas. Haydn liked surprises: C. P. E. Bach is even quirkier. It’s his 300th birthday this year, and Schornsheim is celebrating with a series of recitals of the master’s works and with this disc of lively rondos and fantasias. She is drawn to their diversity, their occasional sentiment and to their Sturm und Drang qualities. In the interview that accompanies this disc, Schornsheim remarks of the D-Minor Rondo (Wq 61/4): “We have a motif that apparently recurs incessantly frequently. For me, this short motif has something restless and driven about it. It is as if you came storming through the door and simultaneously wanted to blurt out breathlessly what exciting things you had just experienced.” I am not sure she associates the other pieces with her own such fantasies, but her statement captures what I like about these performances: the sometimes impetuous drama, the sense of a complex of things happening that are finally based on simple principles. This piece begins with a phrase that seems to spill out of her hands. Schornsheim seems a virtuoso not merely because of her ability to play quickly and forcefully, but because of the way she negotiates the shifts in mood and tempo in a manner that seems so correct. The recorded sound of both instruments is close and brilliant. The other recordings of some of these works that I have heard, such as Pletnev’s, have been on modern pianos. This new disc will delight many readers and, I am guessing, all fans of the distinctive music of C. P. E. Bach. | |
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