Sonatas:
Sonata Op 17 no 2 in c minor
Sonata Op 5 no 3 in G major
Sonata Op 17 no 6 in B flat major
Sonata Op 5 no 2 in D major
Sonata Op 5 no 5 in E major

After several successful recordings of harpsichord music by Scarlatti, Soler and Haydn Nicolau de Figueiredo turns his musical attention to Johan Christian Bach. The London Bach was such an inspiration to the young Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart that he actually used some of the sonatas recorded here and transformed them into concertos. Figueiredo proofs with this recording that Johan Christian is all but a secondary composer. Too often he is regarded as a passing stage leading to Mozart. But performed in this way by one of the best harpsichordists of our times this music reveals itself as real masterpieces. As in all Passacaille recordings Nicolau de Figeuiredo uses a splendid harpsichord made by Emile Jobin.