C P E Bach - Solo Keyboard Music

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…

The tangent piano has appeared in this series before but Spányi here used the variations as an excuse to explore the colours of its tone-altering stops, which are many, varied and delightful.... — Gramophone Magazine, January 2010 More…

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…