Forbes Classical CD Of The Week: Wake Up To Bach Beyond "J.S."

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…In the alphabet-soup of Bach family member composers, there are always discoveries to be made away from the familiar and relatively familiar paths of Johann Sebastian and then, I suppose, Carl Philipp Emanuel (C.P.E.), and arguably Johann Christian (J.C.). Take J.B. (Johann Bernhard; for once not a son of but a second cousin to J.S.B.), for example, whom I recently wrote about with great joy and newfound interest, after happening on the disc of his four overtures on the Ricercar label (see: Classical CD Of The Week: Who Is Johann Bernhard Bach?). Or, in this case, J.C.F. (Johann Christoph Friedrich), J.S.B.’s penultimate male issue with wife Magdalena…

-> Classical CD Of The Week: Wake Up To Bach Beyond "J.S."

Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach, Miserere in C minor; "Wachet auf", Das Kleine Konzert, Rheinische Kantorei, Hermann Max (conductor), m|DG