CPE Bach (Carl Philipp Emanuel)

[Mandryka]

https://static.qobuz.com/goodies/29/000173892.pdf

The booklet from Tom Beghin's Wq 50 recording.

[Anooj]

Opinions on this one? Quite cheap at JPC at the moment, but the reviews for it are all over the place in appraisal.

[Cato]

Here is a way to test the performance.  Unfortunately, each movement is on a separate YouTube page!

This page should allow you to find the entire performance:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAeAbBzytOkYyXRSAg6Kgvw

Here is the first movement of the First Prussian Sonata:

[André]

Opinions on this one? Quite cheap at JPC at the moment, but the reviews for it are all over the place in appraisal.

I love that pianist's Clementi sonatas series. Clementi and CP Bach share a similar inclination to inject dramatic gestures as well as a love of pathos that Beethoven would pick up later (Pathétique sonata).  I think she should be excellent in CPE as well.

[Mandryka]

I just listened to the andante of the first sonata - I thought she made it sound like an operatic recitative without words. I think that's pretty interesting.