C.P.E. Bach: The Solo Keyboard Music, Vol. 33 Miklós Spányi

• Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714-1788):
• 1 Rondo in E Major, Wq. 57/1 09:02
• 2 Keyboard Sonata in A Minor, Wq. 57/2: I. Allegro 03:56
• 3 Keyboard Sonata in A Minor, Wq. 57/2: II. Andante 02:10
• 4 Keyboard Sonata in A Minor, Wq. 57/2: III. Allegro di molto 04:52
• 5 Rondo in G Major, Wq. 57/3 05:55
• 6 Keyboard Sonata in D Minor, Wq. 57/4: I. Allegro moderato 07:37
• 7 Keyboard Sonata in D Minor, Wq. 57/4: II. Cantabile e mesto 03:47
• 8 Keyboard Sonata in D Minor, Wq. 57/4: III. Allegro 02:46
• 9 Rondo in F Major, Wq. 57/5 06:03
• 10 Keyboard Sonata in F Minor, Wq. 57/6: I. Allegro assai 05:34
• 11 Keyboard Sonata in F Minor, Wq. 57/6: II. Andante 04:44
• 12 Keyboard Sonata in F Minor, Wq. 57/6: III. Andantino grazioso 05:58
• 13 Canzonetta with 6 Variations in F Major, Wq. 118/8 05:56
• Total Runtime 01:08:20

Info for C.P.E. Bach: The Solo Keyboard Music, Vol. 33

Issued between 1779 and 1787, the six collections of sonatas, rondos, and fantasias “für Kenner und Liebhaber” constitute Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach’s largest-scale publishing venture. Aimed at ‘Connaisseurs and Amateurs’, the first collection was a retrospective selection of six sonatas but when this became a commercial success Bach expanded and varied the scheme, adding rondos (a recently popular form) for the second and third collection and, in the final three collections, samples of his free fantasies.

On the previous two discs in his acclaimed series, Miklós Spányi combined pieces from Collection 1 and 2, performing them on the clavichord (Volume 31) and the tangent piano (Volume 32). For the present disc, Spányi has chosen to remain with the tangent piano, an early form of the piano with strings that are struck by small wooden slips (‘tangents’). The basic sound of the instrument is reminiscent of the harpsichord, but this can be modified in a number of ways through the use of various devices.

Miklós Spányi, tangent piano

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