Gramophone Award. Composed during the vibrant musical life of mid-18th-century Berlin, these keyboard concertos reflect a period in which C. P. E. Bach was refining a highly individual musical language. Although fewer in number than his earlier works in the genre, the concertos of the 1750s reveal an intensified expressive depth and a growing sense of structural contrast between movements. The opening movements unfold with a seriousness and architectural clarity that heighten the dialogue between soloist and strings, while the slow movements explore a more intimate emotional landscape through subtle harmonic turns and finely balanced exchanges between solo and ensemble. The finales, often grounded in dance rhythms, combine elegance with a driving energy that can verge on the dramatic. The performances bring particular clarity to Bach’s distinctive keyboard writing, allowing its quick shifts of mood, rhetorical gestures and lyrical introspection to emerge naturally. The solo instrument’s colour and articulation illuminate the music’s expressive contrasts, revealing a style poised between late Baroque formality and the emerging sensibility of the Classical era.