C.P.E. Bach: The Solo Keyboard Music, Vol. 40 / Miklós

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Label
BIS
Release Date
May 21, 2021
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      BACH, C.P.E
    • PERFORMER
      Miklos Spanyi
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      May 21, 2021
    • UPC
      7318590023877
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      BIS-2387
    • LABEL
      BIS
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. Minuet in D Major, Wq. 116/35, H. 309

      Composer: Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

      Performer: Miklós Spányi

    2. Polonoise in A Major, Wq. 116/34, H. 308

      Composer: Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

      Performer: Miklós Spányi

    3. Allegretto grazioso in C Major, Wq. 116/57, H. 331

      Composer: Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

      Performer: Miklós Spányi

    4. Menuet in G Major, Wq. 116/29, H. 303

      Composer: Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

      Performer: Miklós Spányi

    5. I. Allegro

      Composer: Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

      Performer: Miklós Spányi

    6. II. Andante

      Composer: Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

      Performer: Miklós Spányi

    7. III. Presto

      Composer: Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

      Performer: Miklós Spányi

    8. Minuet in G Major, Wq. 116/31, H. 305

      Composer: Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

      Performer: Miklós Spányi

    9. March in D Major, Wq. 116/46, H. 320

      Composer: Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

      Performer: Miklós Spányi

    10. Menuet in D Major, Wq. 116/40, H. 314

      Composer: Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

      Performer: Miklós Spányi

    11. Polonoise in B-Flat Major, Wq. 116/43, H. 317

      Composer: Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

      Performer: Miklós Spányi

    12. Menuet in C Major, Wq. 116/47, H. 321

      Composer: Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

      Performer: Miklós Spányi

    13. Presto in A Minor, Wq. 116/39, H. 313

      Composer: Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

      Performer: Miklós Spányi

    14. Polonaise in A Major, Wq. 116/42, H. 316

      Composer: Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

      Performer: Miklós Spányi

    15. Allegro in C Major, Wq. 116/51, H. 325

      Composer: Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

      Performer: Miklós Spányi

    16. I. Allegro assai

      Composer: Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

      Performer: Miklós Spányi

    17. II. Larghetto

      Composer: Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

      Performer: Miklós Spányi

    18. III. Poco presto

      Composer: Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

      Performer: Miklós Spányi

    19. Allegro in B-Flat Major, Wq. 116/38, H. 312

      Composer: Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

      Performer: Miklós Spányi

    20. Polonaise in F Major, Wq. 116/41, H. 315

      Composer: Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

      Performer: Miklós Spányi

    21. Menuet in D Major, Wq. 116/33, H. 307

      Composer: Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

      Performer: Miklós Spányi

    22. Allegro di molto in A Major, Wq. 116/36, H. 310

      Composer: Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

      Performer: Miklós Spányi

    23. Langsam und traurig in A Minor, Wq 116/50, H. 324

      Composer: Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

      Performer: Miklós Spányi

    24. Polonaise in D Major, Wq. 116/49, H. 323

      Composer: Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

      Performer: Miklós Spányi

    25. I. Allegro assai

      Composer: Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

      Performer: Miklós Spányi

    26. II. Andante

      Composer: Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

      Performer: Miklós Spányi

    27. III. Allegro

      Composer: Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

      Performer: Miklós Spányi


This album features solo keyboard arrangements of works by Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach originally scored for other instruments. In the second half of the eighteenth century the demand for keyboard music increased rapidly, as musical skills became a social requisite for young ladies of the upper classes. To provide compositions for these new keyboard players was financially profitable, but Bach also had another reason for welcoming arrangements: the keyboard instruments were his favorite medium, and he devoted himself to making them into solo instruments as important as the violin and other melody instruments. The eighteen short pieces on this well-filled disc all exist in versions for various small groups of instruments or, in some cases, for mechanical instruments such as the barrel organ. Miklós Spányi has grouped them around three larger-scaled works, of which two are arrangements of symphonies while the Concerto in F major for solo keyboard may in fact be an original composition: a version for keyboard and orchestra exists, but is possibly a later development. In the case of several of the arrangements it is uncertain who made them – some of them only survive in the hand of one of Bach’s admirers. In his liner notes to the disc, Spányi proposes that they could in fact be the original versions, however, as he sees a striking similarity to Bach’s other, indisputably genuine small keyboard pieces.