Name: C.P.E. Bach: The Solo Keyboard Music, Vol. 39 by Miklós Spányi
Brand: Miklós Spányi
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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. © BIS Records

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

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1. Clavierstücke verschiedener Art, Wq. 112 (Keyboard Excerpts): No. 1a, Concerto in C Major. I. Allegro

2. Clavierstücke verschiedener Art, Wq. 112 (Keyboard Excerpts): No. 1b, Concerto in C Major. II. Largo

3. Clavierstücke verschiedener Art, Wq. 112 (Keyboard Excerpts): No. 1c, Concerto in C Major. III. Allegro

4. Clavierstücke verschiedener Art, Wq. 112 (Keyboard Excerpts): No. 2, Fantasia in D Major

5. Clavierstücke verschiedener Art, Wq. 112 (Keyboard Excerpts): No. 3, Minuets I & II in D Major

6. Clavierstücke verschiedener Art, Wq. 112 (Keyboard Excerpts): No. 4, Solfeggio in G Major

7. Clavierstücke verschiedener Art, Wq. 112 (Keyboard Excerpts): No. 5, Alla polacca in A Minor

8. Clavierstücke verschiedener Art, Wq. 112 (Keyboard Excerpts): No. 7a, Sonata in D Minor. I. Allegretto

9. Clavierstücke verschiedener Art, Wq. 112 (Keyboard Excerpts): No. 7b, Sonata in D Minor. II. Poco adagio e mesto

10. Clavierstücke verschiedener Art, Wq. 112 (Keyboard Excerpts): No. 7c, Sonata in D Minor. III. Allegro assai

11. Clavierstücke verschiedener Art, Wq. 112 (Keyboard Excerpts): No. 8, Fantasia in B-Flat Major

12. Clavierstücke verschiedener Art, Wq. 112 (Keyboard Excerpts): No. 9, Minuets I & II in D Major

13. Clavierstücke verschiedener Art, Wq. 112 (Keyboard Excerpts): No. 10, Solfeggio in C Major

14. Clavierstücke verschiedener Art, Wq. 112 (Keyboard Excerpts): No. 11, Alla polacca in G Minor

15. Clavierstücke verschiedener Art, Wq. 112 (Keyboard Excerpts): No. 13a, Symphony in G Major. I. Allegro di molto

16. Clavierstücke verschiedener Art, Wq. 112 (Keyboard Excerpts): No. 13b, Symphony in G Major. II. Largo

17. Clavierstücke verschiedener Art, Wq. 112 (Keyboard Excerpts): No. 13c, Symphony in G Major. III. Allegro assai

18. Clavierstücke verschiedener Art, Wq. 112 (Keyboard Excerpts): No. 15, Fantasia in F Major

19. Clavierstücke verschiedener Art, Wq. 112 (Keyboard Excerpts): No. 16, Minuets I & II in A Major

20. Clavierstücke verschiedener Art, Wq. 112 (Keyboard Excerpts): No. 17, Alla polacca in D Major

21. Clavierstücke verschiedener Art, Wq. 112 (Keyboard Excerpts): No. 18, Solfeggio in G Major

22. Clavierstücke verschiedener Art, Wq. 112 (Keyboard Excerpts): No. 19, Fugue in G Minor

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