Composer: Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
Performer: Miklós Spányi
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: BIS
Release: 2017
Size: 1.37 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
01. Rondo in A Major, Wq. 58 No. 1, H. 276
Keyboard Sonata in G Major, Wq. 58 No. 2, H. 273
02. I. Grazioso
03. II. Larghetto e sostenuto – Largo
04. III. Allegretto
05. Rondo in E Major, Wq. 58 No. 3, H. 274
Keboard Sonata in E Minor, Wq. 58 No. 4, H. 188
06. I. Allegretto
07. II. Andantino
08. Keyboard Sonata in E Minor, Wq. 58 No. 4, H. 188 – III. Allegro assai
09. Rondo in B-Flat Major, Wq. 58 No. 5, H. 267
10. Fantasy in E-Flat Major, Wq. 58 No. 6, H. 277
11. Fantasy in A Major, Wq. 58 No. 7, H. 278
Keyboard Sonata in F Major, Wq. 65 No. 19, H. 49
12. I. Presto
13. II. Andantino
14. III. Alla polacca
Arioso with 20 Variations in C Major, Wq. 118 No. 10, H. 259
15. Theme
16. Var. 1
17. Var. 2
18. Var. 3
19. Var. 4
20. Var. 5
21. Var. 6
22. Var. 7
23. Var. 8
24. Var. 9
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach had begun his series für Kenner und Liebhaber – ‘for Connaisseurs and Amateurs’ – with the traditional formula of a set of six sonatas, but became more unconventional in the second and third collection in which he alternated three sonatas with three rondos. With the fourth instalment, published in 1783, he went further still as he increased the number of pieces to seven and added ‘free fantasias’ to the sonatas and rondos.
Continuing his survey of Bach’s keyboard music – and the Kenner und Liebhaber series – Miklós Spányi performs the collection on a tangent piano, an early form of the piano with strings that are struck by small wooden slips (‘tangents’). The basic sound of the instrument is reminiscent of the harpsichord, but this can be modified in a number of ways through the use of various devices. Spányi rounds off the programme with two further works, of which the Sonata in F major, Wq 65/19 may be the very last keyboard composition that Bach completed during his lifetime.