Bach: Like Father, Like Son by The Hong Kong Bach ChoirThe Hong Kong Bach Choir, The Hong Kong Bach Choir & Orchestra

Together with the central part—the “Symbolum Nicenum” or Credo—from J.S. Bach’s renowned Mass in B-minor, the programme includes two works by Carl Philipp Emanuel (C.P.E.) Bach: the Magnificat and the Symphony in D.   C.P.E. Bach’s Magnificat was composed in Berlin in 1749 while J.S. Bach was still alive, and it is obvious when listening to it that the son was well acquainted with his father’s now-better-known Magnificat in the same key.

C.P.E. Bach’s historical importance is as a bridge between the Baroque style of his father and the Classical formal perfection of Haydn and Mozart, but for us today it is simply the brilliance and emotional expressiveness of his music that carries us irresistibly into his world.