Abstract
As the 300th anniversary of C. P. E. Bach’s birth (8 March 1714) approaches ever closer, the splendid (and spectacularly generously priced) complete edition being produced by the Packard Humanities Institute seems to deliver these handsome blue hardbacks at an ever-increasing pace. In the February 2012 issue of Early Music, Geoffrey Webber considered five of Emanuel’s Passion settings; here we have eight volumes of concertos for harpsichord or keyboard, 21 works in all, comprising about 40 per cent of his output in this genre. (Four further volumes are imminent or in preparation.) The scoring of the concertos published here is in most cases just keyboard and strings, and where wind or brass parts appear, they are a little unexpected: added pairs of horns in the concertos in Ey Wq.41 and F Wq.42 (vol.iii/9.14), and in G Wq.44 and D Wq.45 (vol.iii/9.15), while the Ey work...
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