Truth Goodness Beauty

The English music historian and composer Dr Charles Burney wrote of Johann Sebastian Bach’s second-eldest son, Carl Philipp Emmanuel Bach: “[His] fantastical…flights are not the wild ravings of ignorance or madness, but the effusions of cultivated genius.” C. P. E. Bach’s impact on the next generation of composers was immense; Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart—who, as we know, was not given to flattery—wrote: “[C. P. E. Bach] is the father, we are the children; those of us who can do anything decent learned how from him, and whoever will not admit it is a scoundrel.” Luxuriate in exemplars of C. P. E. Bach’s and Mozart’s. fantastical, kaleidoscopic, abundant imagination; delight in a satiating variety of ideas and astonishing levels of emotional intensity; truth, goodness and beauty: a recital for all lovers of eighteenth-century music.