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CPE Bach: The Solo Keyboard Music, Vol. 37

Miklós Spányi (harpsichord)

CPE Bach: The Solo Keyboard Music, Vol. 37

Miklós Spányi (harpsichord)

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Described in Gramophone as ‘one of the most needed and important recording projects in progress today’, this series has up until now featured the clavichord (on 27 discs), the tangent piano (7 discs) and the fortepiano (2 discs). It is therefore something of an occasion when Miklós Spányi for his Volume 37 chooses to perform on a harpsichord. In doing so he reminds us of C.P.E. Bach’s own advice to keyboard players to have both a clavichord and a harpsichord in order to play ‘all sorts of things alternating’ (‘allerley Sachen abwechselnd’).

But the disc – which includes some of the composer’s earliest works – also features one of the very few, if not the only, compositions that Bach specifically dedicated to the harpsichord, namely the Sonata per il cembalo a 2 tastature. In it, Bach makes colourful use of the instrument by specifying various detailed and idiosyncratic harpsichord registrations. Spányi also performs two of the few fugues – in F and A major respectively –that Carl Philipp composed: besides the general shift in fashion away from intricate counterpoint to melodic simplicity, it is possible that he found father Johann Sebastian’s achievements in that particular genre too hard an act to follow…

Contents and tracklist

Minuet
Track length1:15
Var. 1
Track length1:08
Var. 2
Track length1:06
Var. 3
Track length1:05
Var. 4
Track length1:07
Var. 5
Track length1:21
II. Andante (Early Version)
Track length1:31
I. Allegro
Track length6:41
II. Largo
Track length3:51
III. Prestissimo
Track length3:49
Arioso
Track length1:25
Var. 1
Track length1:19
Var. 2
Track length0:59
Var. 3
Track length1:03
Var. 4
Track length1:22
Var. 5
Track length1:08
Var. 6
Track length1:08
Var. 7
Track length1:34
I. Allegro di molto
Track length5:44
II. Andante
Track length2:15
III. Presto
Track length2:08
II. Larghetto (Early Version)
Track length3:49
I. Allegro
Track length6:07
II. Andante
Track length3:33
IIIa. Theme. Allegretto
Track length1:08
IIIb. Var. 1
Track length1:05
IIIc. Var. 2
Track length1:01
IIId. Var. 3
Track length0:48
IIIe. Var. 4
Track length0:59
IIIf. Var. 5
Track length1:03
IIIg. Var. 6
Track length1:01
IIIh. Var. 7
Track length1:01
IIIi. Var. 8
Track length1:01
IIIj. Var. 9
Track length1:49

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