6 Hamburg Symphonies

Album by Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach & Camerata Bern & Thomas Füri

6 Hamburg Symphonies is a set of six orchestral symphonies by Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, composed around 1768 during his early Hamburg period. The works exemplify the empfindsamer Stil and galant tendencies of the late Baroque-to-Classical transition, featuring sudden dynamic contrasts, expressive harmonies and rhetorical gestures that mark their place in the development of the symphonic genre.
First released: 1989

Tracklist

  1. 1.
    Hamburg Symphony in G major, Wq. 182 No. 1: I. Allegro di molto
    3:38
  2. 2.
    Hamburg Symphony in G major, Wq. 182 No. 1: II. Poco adagio
    3:49
  3. 3.
    Hamburg Symphony in G major, Wq. 182 No. 1: III. Presto
    3:55
  4. 4.
    Hamburg Symphony in B flat major, Wq. 182 No. 2: I. Allegro di molto
    3:22
  5. 5.
    Hamburg Symphony in B flat major, Wq. 182 No. 2: II. Poco adagio
    2:49
  6. 6.
    Hamburg Symphony in B flat major, Wq. 182 No. 2: III. Presto
    4:46
  7. 7.
    Hamburg Symphony in C major, Wq. 182 No. 3: I. Allegro assai
    2:39
  8. 8.
    Hamburg Symphony in C major, Wq. 182 No. 3: II. Adagio
    3:13
  9. 9.
    Hamburg Symphony in C major, Wq. 182 No. 3: III. Allegretto
    5:35
  10. 10.
    Hamburg Symphony in A major, Wq. 182 No. 4: I. Allegro, ma non troppo
    4:07
  11. 11.
    Hamburg Symphony in A major, Wq. 182 No. 4: II. Largo ed innocentemente
    3:32
  12. 12.
    Hamburg Symphony in A major, Wq. 182 No. 4: III. Allegro assai
    3:47
  13. 13.
    Hamburg Symphony in B minor, Wq. 182 No. 5: I. Allegretto
    3:56
  14. 14.
    Hamburg Symphony in B minor, Wq. 182 No. 5: II. Larghetto
    2:42
  15. 15.
    Hamburg Symphony in B minor, Wq. 182 No. 5: III. Presto
    3:30
  16. 16.
    Hamburg Symphony in E major, Wq. 182 No. 6: I. Allegro di molto
    2:18
  17. 17.
    Hamburg Symphony in E major, Wq. 182 No. 6: II. Poco andante
    3:14
  18. 18.
    Hamburg Symphony in E major, Wq. 182 No. 6: III. Allegro spirituoso
    3:11

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