On this amply filled album, Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach's ClavierstÃ¼cke verschiedener Art (Keyboard Pieces of various Kinds) is presented in it's 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, MiklÃ³s SpÃ¡nyi 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, SpÃ¡nyi 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.

Tracklist:

Clavierstücke Verschiedener Art, Wq. 112 (Keyboard Excerpts): No. 1a, Concerto In C Major. I. Allegro
Clavierstücke Verschiedener Art, Wq. 112 (Keyboard Excerpts): No. 1b, Concerto In C Major. II. Largo
Clavierstücke Verschiedener Art, Wq. 112 (Keyboard Excerpts): No. 1c, Concerto In C Major. III. Allegro
Clavierstücke Verschiedener Art, Wq. 112 (Keyboard Excerpts): No. 2, Fantasia In D Major
Clavierstücke Verschiedener Art, Wq. 112 (Keyboard Excerpts): No. 3, Minuets I & II In D Major
Clavierstücke Verschiedener Art, Wq. 112 (Keyboard Excerpts): No. 4, Solfeggio In G Major
Clavierstücke Verschiedener Art, Wq. 112 (Keyboard Excerpts): No. 5, Alla Polacca In A Minor
Clavierstücke Verschiedener Art, Wq. 112 (Keyboard Excerpts): No. 7a, Sonata In D Minor. I. Allegretto
Clavierstücke Verschiedener Art, Wq. 112 (Keyboard Excerpts): No. 7b, Sonata In D Minor. II. Poco Adagio E Mesto
Clavierstücke Verschiedener Art, Wq. 112 (Keyboard Excerpts): No. 7c, Sonata In D Minor. III. Allegro Assai
Clavierstücke Verschiedener Art, Wq. 112 (Keyboard Excerpts): No. 8, Fantasia In B-Flat Major
Clavierstücke Verschiedener Art, Wq. 112 (Keyboard Excerpts): No. 9, Minuets I & II In D Major
Clavierstücke Verschiedener Art, Wq. 112 (Keyboard Excerpts): No. 10, Solfeggio In C Major
Clavierstücke Verschiedener Art, Wq. 112 (Keyboard Excerpts): No. 11, Alla Polacca In G Minor
Clavierstücke Verschiedener Art, Wq. 112 (Keyboard Excerpts): No. 13a, Symphony In G Major. I. Allegro Di Molto
Clavierstücke Verschiedener Art, Wq. 112 (Keyboard Excerpts): No. 13b, Symphony In G Major. II. Largo
Clavierstücke Verschiedener Art, Wq. 112 (Keyboard Excerpts): No. 13c, Symphony In G Major. III. Allegro Assai
Clavierstücke Verschiedener Art, Wq. 112 (Keyboard Excerpts): No. 15, Fantasia In F Major
Clavierstücke Verschiedener Art, Wq. 112 (Keyboard Excerpts): No. 16, Minuets I & II In A Major
Clavierstücke Verschiedener Art, Wq. 112 (Keyboard Excerpts): No. 17, Alla Polacca In D Major
Clavierstücke Verschiedener Art, Wq. 112 (Keyboard Excerpts): No. 18, Solfeggio In G Major
Clavierstücke Verschiedener Art, Wq. 112 (Keyboard Excerpts): No. 19, Fugue In G Minor

UPC: 7318590023709
Label: Bis
Release Date: 1.3.20
Format: CD

C Bach PE / Spanyi - Solo Keyboard Music 39 (CD)