The fourth disc on the Dutch Challenge label by pianist Einav Yarden, 45, really deserves our attention. At the moment when Edna Stern gets bogged down, alas, under the pretext of purity, in her sonic experiments with the desiccated piano recently applied, after Schubert, to Bach, we have here a very fine example of analytical sound aesthetics, but musical. The very clever program mirrors father and son Bach to illustrate the stylistic advances and inventiveness of Carl Philipp Emanuel. Jean-Sébastien is represented by the 2e English suite and the Chromatic fantasy and fugue ; his son, by his Rondos Wq. 59/4 And Wq. 57/3THE Fantasies Wq. 58/6 And Wq. 61/6there 2e Prussian Sonata Wq. 48/2there Sonata in D major, Wq. 61/2 And Arioso with 7 variations, Wq. 118/4. Without having quite the grace and irresistible charm of Schaghajegh Nosrati, Einav Yarden’s playing is of exemplary limpidity and polyphonic clarity while not being unnecessarily demonstrative. Pianist to follow.
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