The famous Italian early music ensemble Il Giardino Armonico conducted by Govanni Antoni will complement the program of the 51st edition of the Wratislavia Cantans festival with works by other famous composers from the Bach family - Wilhelm Friedemann and Carl Philipp Emanuel. This time, unlike the Vox Luminis concert, presenting the vocal work of the ancestors of the famous Johann Sebastian, it's time for music for instruments only .
Johann Sebastian Bach took care of the thorough musical education of his sons, who quickly started their careers. They enjoyed extraordinary success and popularity among the listeners of that time - surprisingly, more than their father, whose music the world fell in love with in the 19th century thanks to Felix Mendelssohn. The sons of the cantor from Leipzig, although they valued him, often mentioned that he resembled "an old and outdated wig". This term, not very elegant, is, however, fully understandable - at a time when the sons were discovering the latest compositional techniques of the time, combining the Baroque with the nascent classicism, the father continued to compose in the traditional style. Of course, Johann Sebastian's two eldest sons enjoyed the greatest popularity among the listeners. Wilhelm Friedrich Bach was recognized by his father as the most talented of sons. By creating works that were extremely innovative for those times, he wanted to prove to the audience that he gained his fame thanks to his skills, not his name. The need to constantly discover new things in music also accompanied Carl Philipp Emanuel - for this reason, after many years, he resigned from the boring and limiting work of the court composer of Frederick II and moved to Hamburg, where he spread his wings.
The program of the Friday concert of Il Giardino Armonico will be complemented by works by Georg Philipp Telemann and Joseph Haydn. The former was also connected with the family of Johann Sebastian Bach on a private basis - he became the godfather of Carl Philipp Emanuel. The work of the latter composer already represents the classical style, which would undoubtedly not have been created without the music of the sons of the Leipzig cantor.
