Album Description
The selection of works on this production ranges from pieces for solo harpsichord to trio sonatas. In the early eighteenth century, ever since Corelli's four influential publications in the 1680s and 1690s, latter-mentioned work represented the genre that the string quartet was to become: the ultimate in instrumental music and a touchstone for each and every composer. Counterpoint and singing melody could be combined with sophisticated harmony in these works - something that Wilhelm Friedemann Bach managed to achieve in brilliant fashion.