Composer: Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
Performer: Miklós Spányi
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: BIS
Release: 2020
Size: 1.58 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
Clavierstücke verschiedener Art, Wq. 112 (Keyboard Excerpts) 1:
01. No. 1a, Concerto in C Major. I. Allegro
02. No. 1b, Concerto in C Major. II. Largo
03. No. 1c, Concerto in C Major. III. Allegro
04. No. 2, Fantasia in D Major
05. No. 3, Minuets I & II in D Major
06. No. 4, Solfeggio in G Major
07. No. 5, Alla polacca in A Minor
08. No. 7a, Sonata in D Minor. I. Allegretto
09. No. 7b, Sonata in D Minor. II. Poco adagio e mesto
10. No. 7c, Sonata in D Minor. III. Allegro assai
11. No. 8, Fantasia in B-Flat Major
12. No. 9, Minuets I & II in D Major
13. No. 10, Solfeggio in C Major
14. No. 11, Alla polacca in G Minor
15. No. 13a, Symphony in G Major. I. Allegro di molto
16. No. 13b, Symphony in G Major. II. Largo
17. No. 13c, Symphony in G Major. III. Allegro assai
18. No. 15, Fantasia in F Major
19. No. 16, Minuets I & II in A Major
20. No. 17, Alla polacca in D Major
21. No. 18, Solfeggio in G Major
22. No. 19, Fugue in G Minor
On this amply filled album, Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach’s Clavierstücke verschiedener Art (“Keyboard Pieces of various Kinds”) is presented in its 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, Miklós Spányi 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, Spányi 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.