harmonia mundi (en)

With these six symphonies dedicated to Baron van Swieten, Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach multiplied the most advanced outbursts of instrumental and expressive genius. Entirely devoid of sentimentality and gratuitous extravagance alike, they open the doors to both Viennese Classicism and its immediate successor: Romanticism! It was only natural that, after tackling Haydn and the Esterházy princes, Amandine Beyer and Gli Incogniti should investigate this repertory in which, once again, aristocratic patronage lay at the heart of musical creation.