Wilhelm Friedemann Bach [CD]

Gachinger Kantorei – Wilhelm Friedemann Bach [CD]

Wilhem Friedemann Bachs compositional work can be characterised overall as a permanent conflict between high artistic standards and the need to make concessions to playability, audience taste and contemporary understanding of music. However, as the eldest son of the famous Thomaskantor, he was only willing to a limited extent to subordinate his musical ideals to external constraints, as numerous contemporary anecdotes and documents attest.