C.P.E. Bach: The Solo Keyboard Music, Vol. 39 Miklós Spányi

• Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714 - 1788): Clavierstücke verschiedener Art, Wq. 112 (Keyboard Excerpts):
• 1 Clavierstücke verschiedener Art, Wq. 112 (Keyboard Excerpts): No. 1a, Concerto in C Major. I. Allegro 09:12
• 2 Clavierstücke verschiedener Art, Wq. 112 (Keyboard Excerpts): No. 1b, Concerto in C Major. II. Largo 07:28
• 3 Clavierstücke verschiedener Art, Wq. 112 (Keyboard Excerpts): No. 1c, Concerto in C Major. III. Allegro 06:33
• 4 Clavierstücke verschiedener Art, Wq. 112 (Keyboard Excerpts): No. 2, Fantasia in D Major 00:39
• 5 Clavierstücke verschiedener Art, Wq. 112 (Keyboard Excerpts): No. 3, Minuets I & II in D Major 02:37
• 6 Clavierstücke verschiedener Art, Wq. 112 (Keyboard Excerpts): No. 4, Solfeggio in G Major 00:47
• 7 Clavierstücke verschiedener Art, Wq. 112 (Keyboard Excerpts): No. 5, Alla polacca in A Minor 01:35
• 8 Clavierstücke verschiedener Art, Wq. 112 (Keyboard Excerpts): No. 7a, Sonata in D Minor. I. Allegretto 07:02
• 9 Clavierstücke verschiedener Art, Wq. 112 (Keyboard Excerpts): No. 7b, Sonata in D Minor. II. Poco adagio e mesto 02:46
• 10 Clavierstücke verschiedener Art, Wq. 112 (Keyboard Excerpts): No. 7c, Sonata in D Minor. III. Allegro assai 04:28
• 11 Clavierstücke verschiedener Art, Wq. 112 (Keyboard Excerpts): No. 8, Fantasia in B-Flat Major 01:03
• 12 Clavierstücke verschiedener Art, Wq. 112 (Keyboard Excerpts): No. 9, Minuets I & II in D Major 02:47
• 13 Clavierstücke verschiedener Art, Wq. 112 (Keyboard Excerpts): No. 10, Solfeggio in C Major 01:04
• 14 Clavierstücke verschiedener Art, Wq. 112 (Keyboard Excerpts): No. 11, Alla polacca in G Minor 01:46
• 15 Clavierstücke verschiedener Art, Wq. 112 (Keyboard Excerpts): No. 13a, Symphony in G Major. I. Allegro di molto 04:56
• 16 Clavierstücke verschiedener Art, Wq. 112 (Keyboard Excerpts): No. 13b, Symphony in G Major. II. Largo 04:44
• 17 Clavierstücke verschiedener Art, Wq. 112 (Keyboard Excerpts): No. 13c, Symphony in G Major. III. Allegro assai 04:39
• 18 Clavierstücke verschiedener Art, Wq. 112 (Keyboard Excerpts): No. 15, Fantasia in F Major 03:02
• 19 Clavierstücke verschiedener Art, Wq. 112 (Keyboard Excerpts): No. 16, Minuets I & II in A Major 02:49
• 20 Clavierstücke verschiedener Art, Wq. 112 (Keyboard Excerpts): No. 17, Alla polacca in D Major 01:37
• 21 Clavierstücke verschiedener Art, Wq. 112 (Keyboard Excerpts): No. 18, Solfeggio in G Major 02:16
• 22 Clavierstücke verschiedener Art, Wq. 112 (Keyboard Excerpts): No. 19, Fugue in G Minor 04:52
• Total Runtime 01:18:42

Info for C.P.E. Bach: The Solo Keyboard Music, Vol. 39

On this amply filled album, Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach’s Clavierstücke verschiedener Art (Keyboard Pieces of various Kinds) is presented in its entirety, with the exception of three songs for voice and keyboard. This collection is the most diverse of Bach’s publications and includes multi-movement genres, a free fantasia, a learned fugue, and various short pieces of varying degrees of difficulty. The variety suggests that Bach did not want for his keyboard music to be strictly divided into ‘light’ and ‘serious’ pieces. But he also wished to demonstrate a wide range of techniques of keyboard composition and performance: orchestral writing in the symphony and the concerto, two-part textures in the sonata, polyphony in the fugue, and free and virtuosic composition in the fantasias and solfeggios. In order to bring a similar variety to his recording of the collection, Miklós Spányi has chosen to perform the pieces on a harpsichord built after the Antwerp maker Joannes Daniel Dulcken. To this double-manual harpsichord offering a wide range of possible registrations, Spányi has added a so-called swell device which facilitates quick dynamic changes. This makes it possible to bring out the contrasts between orchestral and soloistic textures in the Concerto in C major, but also to highlight the different characters in the contrasting pairs of Minuets.

Miklós Spányi, harpsichord

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