•• JCF BACH WORKS FOR KEYBOARD SOLO WAS OUR FEATURED ALBUM FOR JANUARY 2024 ••
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Among the four composing sons of Johann Sebastian Bach, Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach (1732-1795) is the least known today.

The main reason for this is probably his position as court kapellmeister in Buckeburg, which, unlike his brothers' places of activity, was far removed from the musical metropolises of the time.

Contemporaries praised, among other things, his virtuoso piano playing, which Jermaine Sprosse can only confirm after studying his piano works in detail. On Prospero he presents an album with selected, particularly successful pieces of the "Bückeburg" Bach.

It quickly became clear to the harpsichordist Jermaine Sprosse during his study of Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach’s keyboard works that the records of the well-known Bach biographer Johann Nikolaus Forkel regarding Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach – the comparatively little-known third of Johann Sebastian Bach’s composing sons – are very sparse. He is all the more pleased to present here an album with selected sonatas and individual pieces by the "Bückeburg" Bach, which he considers particularly successful. It was particularly important to him to show J. C. F. Bach as an extremely multifaceted composer. For this reason, the programme selection took into account the greatest possible variety of genres and forms, but also of moods, affects and nuances of expression, so that Bach can be seen in his full range as a piano composer.

JERMAINE SPROSSE fortepiano

PROSP0074 • Released 2024