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Title: Just what century did this composer live in??
Review: A thrilling work. These pieces show off the compositional mastery of Emanuel. The Rondo in A major is a clear example that he could write beautiful melodies as well and deserves to be a standard. Pletnev conveys the feeling that Bach would use "old-fashioned" Baroque techniques as just another tool in his compositional toolbox.For fun, play this album to a music lover and let him/her try to guess the composer. Some pieces sound like they could have been written in the 20th century.I was surprised to find a passage in one of the later tracks that Emanuel later orchestrated for one of the Hamburg symphonies. (sorry - can't put my finger on it right now).I agree with the previous review regarding the sound. I thought it was played on an antique piano at first, it sounds so strange.
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