C P E Bach - Complete Keyboard Concertos, Volume 19 - BIS: BIS1957 - CD or download

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Release Date: 29th Apr 2013
Catalogue No: BIS1957
Label: BIS
Series: C P E Bach - Keyboard Concertos
Length: 64 minutes

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Bach, C P E: Harpsichord Concerto in G major, Wq. 43 / 5 (H475)

Work length12:40

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Miklós Spányi
Concerto Armonico Budapest
Recorded: April 2012
Recording Venue: Phoenix Studios, Diosd

I. Adagio - Presto

Track length5:21

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II. Adagio

Track length2:04

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III. Allegro

Track length5:15

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Bach, C P E: Keyboard Concerto in C major, Wq. 43 / 6 (H476)

Work length19:11

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Miklós Spányi
Concerto Armonico Budapest
Recorded: April 2012
Recording Venue: Phoenix Studios, Diosd

I. Allegro di molto

Track length7:47

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II. Larghetto

Track length3:25

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III. Allegro

Track length7:59

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Bach, C P E: Keyboard Concerto in G major, Wq. 44 (H477)

Work length15:14

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Miklós Spányi
Concerto Armonico Budapest
Recorded: April 2012
Recording Venue: Phoenix Studios, Diosd

I. Allegretto

Track length6:32

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II. Andantino

Track length4:38

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III. Allegro

Track length4:04

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Bach, C P E: Keyboard Concerto in D major, Wq. 45 (H478)

Work length17:54

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Miklós Spányi
Concerto Armonico Budapest
Recorded: April 2012
Recording Venue: Phoenix Studios, Diosd

I. Allegretto

Track length7:00

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II. Andantino

Track length6:41

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III. Allegro

Track length4:13

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On the penultimate disc in his series of the complete keyboard concertos by C.P.E. Bach, Miklós Spányi completes the set of six concertos (Sei Concerti, Wq 43/1-6) begun on Volume 17. Bach finished working on the set in 1771, but had already advertised its coming publication. In a bid to reach as many potential subscribers as possible, he marketed the works as ‘easy’, and also included optional parts for wind instruments: two horns in all the fast movements, replaced by flutes in the slow movements. Bach’s aim was to make the works appealing to both players and listeners, and the result is a set of highly attractive pieces, with approachable melodies and dance rhythms but also displaying a new freedom with regard to conventional concerto form. With the expert support of the Hungarian period band Concerto Armonico, Miklós Spányi performs the solo parts of Wq 43/5 and 43/6 on a harpsichord, a copy of an instrument from 1745. Inspired by the English harpsichords that were imported in great number to Northern Germany during Bach’s time, this instrument has been fitted with a so-called ‘swell device’, enabling the performer to achieve dynamic shadings and crescendo-diminuendo effects consistent with the instructions in Bach’s scores. Some seven years after the Sei Concerti, Bach composed the concertos in G major (Wq 44) and D major (Wq 45) – two works which, although composed in the same year, are strikingly different in character, evidence of Bach’s continuing desire to give each new work a distinctive identity. This has led Miklós Spányi to choose to perform the Wq 44 concerto on a fortepiano from 1798, by the English maker Broadwood, returning to the harpsichord for the final work on the disc.

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