Solely Reminiscence's video: CPE Bach s Cello Concerto in A Allegro giusto Larghetto mesto

_________________ These two touching movements, also completely contrast in mood, I love it immensely, especially the Larghetto mesto (07:00). I also love the elegant performance of Christophe Coin with Ensemble Baroque de Limoges. I picked up CPE Bach's composition again after having read an interesting article, I extracted some passages here : ""Bach is the father. We are the children!" No one with a smattering of musical knowledge will be surprised by this remark of Mozart's, made to the Viennese aristocrat and influential patron Gottfried van Swieten. It is well known that Mozart held the composer in the highest esteem and, some would even argue that it was his interest in the contrapuntal, learned style of "Old Sebastian", as he called him, which gave his music its edge. But when Mozart referred to Bach as his musical father, it was in fact not Johann Sebastian he had in mind, but his second son, Carl Philipp Emanuel. Indeed, in the second half of the 18th century, the name "Bach" was almost exclusively associated with the initials "CPE". .... According to the musicologist Annette Richards, whose work on CPE Bach has emphasised its Sterneian inflections, the composer's wider cultural influences are the key to understanding his music. "Outside music, the cultural references of JS Bach were more or less exclusively theological. But with CPE Bach, things are completely different. Engaged with poets, painters, philosophers, his music is a reflection of the burgeoning secular discourse of his time." "Even among his contemporaries", says Richards, "you get a sense that CPE Bach is an acquired taste. His music – or the music he considered representative of his talents – is miles away from the elegance and balance we associate with this period. Timelines are crisscrossed, he is endlessly stopping and starting, wrong-footing the listener and causing his audience to reconsider its relation to the music. In that sense, it's very postmodern, a kind of meta-music."" (source : Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/music/2011/feb/24/cpe-bach) _________________ The photos were taken in the site Bom Jesus do Monte (a Portuguese Sanctuary), I love the place so much, I am still thinking about walking all the way up to the hilltop, appreciating the geometrical structure of the zigzag stairways, the few baroque chapels built along the sideways, the fountains setup in different levels, well the whole scenery also its cosy parks! Yet about its past, I am still imagining how was it like starting from its existence in the 14th Century, how was those pilgrimage taken place dated back in the past few centuries... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bom_Jesus_do_Monte _________________