Browse: C P E Bach - Solo Keyboard Music (series)

The music, as so often with CPE Bach, is remarkable in its impact. At his most exploratory (the first movement of the Sonata in E minor), the questing spirit is fascinating. Possibly CPE’s last... — International Piano, March 2018, 5 out of 5 stars More…

the playing is ideally expressive and idiomatic. — BBC Music Magazine, January 2014, 4 out of 5 stars More…

These sonatas are neither short nor easy, but Spányi certainly has their measure on his resonant and (relatively) powerful copy of a German clavichord from the 1780s. This is a disc which should... — Gramophone Magazine, February 2008 More…

Spányi is, as ever, a fastidious player, keenly attuned to Bach's particular brand of Empfindsamkeit, especially in the quasi-improvisatory slow movements. — Gramophone Magazine, June 2015 More…

The liner notes are candid in admitting that ‘many of the pieces...demand little technical prowess or musical sophistication’. Prowess and sophistication, of course, a two attributes Spányi possesses... — BBC Music Magazine, December 2019, 4 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 5 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…