Apero-concert: Bach

Show & Culture

From Bach to Beethoven, from baroque music to Viennese classicism, this concert draws a lineage whose connecting thread is Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach. It is said that Bach senior didn't much appreciate the style of his youngest son, this Empfindsamkeit (literally: sentimentality) which sought to touch the listener directly in the heart. And yet, if there is music that truly moves the heart, it is certainly the Fifth Concerto of the Cantor of Leipzig, with its suave, floating slow movement. The contrast with Beethoven's Fourth Concerto is striking: two lively, radiant movements surrounding an unprecedented slow movement, where the orchestra rebuffs the piano's pleas. Perhaps the most beautiful of Beethoven's concertos.