Simone Eckert
Germany / Hamburg
Concert: “The Godfather”
‘In his younger years he was often together with Telemann, who also baptised me,’ Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach reported in a letter in 1776 about his father's obviously close and friendly relationship with Georg Philipp Telemann. Was this sponsorship useful to him in his application to succeed Telemann as Hamburg's music director? Whether it was a matter of sleaze or loud competition: CPE's music speaks for itself in its uniqueness, far beyond family ties, friendly favouritism, regional and epochal boundaries.
