C.P.E. Bach: The Solo Keyboard Music, Vol. 37 - Sonatas, Variations & Fugues from 1745-55 Miklós Spányi

• Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714 - 88): Minuet with 5 Variations in C Major, Wq. 118 No. 3, H. 44:
• 1 Minuet with 5 Variations in C Major, Wq. 118 No. 3, H. 44: Minuet 01:11
• 2 Minuet with 5 Variations in C Major, Wq. 118 No. 3, H. 44: Var. 1 01:08
• 3 Minuet with 5 Variations in C Major, Wq. 118 No. 3, H. 44: Var. 2 01:06
• 4 Minuet with 5 Variations in C Major, Wq. 118 No. 3, H. 44: Var. 3 01:05
• 5 Minuet with 5 Variations in C Major, Wq. 118 No. 3, H. 44: Var. 4 01:07
• 6 Minuet with 5 Variations in C Major, Wq. 118 No. 3, H. 44: Var. 5 01:19
• Fugue in F Major, Wq. 119 No. 3, H. 100:
• 7 Fugue in F Major, Wq. 119 No. 3, H. 100 04:21
• Keyboard Sonata in A Major, Wq. 65 No. 10, H. 19:
• 8 Keyboard Sonata in A Major, Wq. 65 No. 10, H. 19: II. Andante (Early Version) 01:29
• Fugue in A Major, Wq. 119 No. 4, H. 101:
• 9 Fugue in A Major, Wq. 119 No. 4, H. 101 05:42
• Keyboard Sonata in G Major, Wq. 65 No. 15, H. 43:
• 10 Keyboard Sonata in G Major, Wq. 65 No. 15, H. 43: I. Allegro 06:36
• 11 Keyboard Sonata in G Major, Wq. 65 No. 15, H. 43: II. Largo 03:50
• 12 Keyboard Sonata in G Major, Wq. 65 No. 15, H. 43: III. Prestissimo 03:45
• Arioso with 7 Variations in F Major, Wq. 118 No. 4, H. 54:
• 13 Arioso with 7 Variations in F Major, Wq. 118 No. 4, H. 54: Arioso 01:24
• 14 Arioso with 7 Variations in F Major, Wq. 118 No. 4, H. 54: Var. 1 01:19
• 15 Arioso with 7 Variations in F Major, Wq. 118 No. 4, H. 54: Var. 2 00:59
• 16 Arioso with 7 Variations in F Major, Wq. 118 No. 4, H. 54: Var. 3 01:03
• 17 Arioso with 7 Variations in F Major, Wq. 118 No. 4, H. 54: Var. 4 01:22
• 18 Arioso with 7 Variations in F Major, Wq. 118 No. 4, H. 54: Var. 5 01:08
• 19 Arioso with 7 Variations in F Major, Wq. 118 No. 4, H. 54: Var. 6 01:08
• 20 Arioso with 7 Variations in F Major, Wq. 118 No. 4, H. 54: Var. 7 01:34
• Keyboard Sonata in F Major, Wq. 65 No. 18, H. 48:
• 21 Keyboard Sonata in F Major, Wq. 65 No. 18, H. 48: I. Allegro di molto 05:42
• 22 Keyboard Sonata in F Major, Wq. 65 No. 18, H. 48: II. Andante 02:11
• 23 Keyboard Sonata in F Major, Wq. 65 No. 18, H. 48: III. Presto 02:07
• Keyboard Sonata in B-Flat Major, Wq. 65 No. 9, H. 18:
• 24 Keyboard Sonata in B-Flat Major, Wq. 65 No. 9, H. 18: II. Larghetto (Early Version) 03:49
• Keyboard Sonata in D Minor, Wq. 69, H. 53:
• 25 Keyboard Sonata in D Minor, Wq. 69, H. 53: I. Allegro 06:04
• 26 Keyboard Sonata in D Minor, Wq. 69, H. 53: II. Andante 03:32
• 27 Keyboard Sonata in D Minor, Wq. 69, H. 53: IIIa. Theme. Allegretto 01:06
• 28 Keyboard Sonata in D Minor, Wq. 69, H. 53: IIIb. Var. 1 01:05
• 29 Keyboard Sonata in D Minor, Wq. 69, H. 53: IIIc. Var. 2 01:01
• 30 Keyboard Sonata in D Minor, Wq. 69, H. 53: IIId. Var. 3 00:48
• 31 Keyboard Sonata in D Minor, Wq. 69, H. 53: IIIe. Var. 4 00:59
• 32 Keyboard Sonata in D Minor, Wq. 69, H. 53: IIIf. Var. 5 01:03
• 33 Keyboard Sonata in D Minor, Wq. 69, H. 53: IIIg. Var. 6 01:01
• 34 Keyboard Sonata in D Minor, Wq. 69, H. 53: IIIh. Var. 7 01:01
• 35 Keyboard Sonata in D Minor, Wq. 69, H. 53: IIIi. Var. 8 01:01
• 36 Keyboard Sonata in D Minor, Wq. 69, H. 53: IIIj. Var. 9 01:21
• Total Runtime 01:16:27

Info for C.P.E. Bach: The Solo Keyboard Music, Vol. 37 - Sonatas, Variations & Fugues from 1745-55

Described in Gramophone as ‘one of the most needed and important recording projects in progress today’, this series has up until now featured the clavichord (on 27 discs), the tangent piano (7 discs) and the fortepiano (2 discs). It is therefore something of an occasion when Miklós Spányi for his Volume 37 chooses to perform on a harpsichord. In doing so he reminds us of C.P.E. Bach’s own advice to keyboard players to have both a clavichord and a harpsichord in order to play ‘all sorts of things alternating’ (‘allerley Sachen abwechselnd’). But the disc – which includes some of the composer’s earliest works – also features one of the very few, if not the only, compositions that Bach specifically dedicated to the harpsichord, namely the Sonata per il cembalo a 2 tastature. In it, Bach makes colourful use of the instrument by specifying various detailed and idiosyncratic harpsichord registrations. Spányi also performs two of the few fugues – in F and A major respectively – that Carl Philipp composed: besides the general shift in fashion away from intricate counterpoint to melodic simplicity, it is possible that he found father Johann Sebastian’s achievements in that particular genre too hard an act to follow…

Miklós Spányi, tangent piano

Miklós Spányi
was born in Budapest, Hungary. He studied organ and harpsichord at the Ferenc Liszt Music Academy in his native city with Ferenc Gergely and János Sebestyén. He continued his studies at the Royal Flemish Conservatory (Koninklijk Vlaams Muziekconservatorium) in Antwerp with Jos van Immerseel and at the Hochschule für Music in Munich with Hedwig Bilgram.

Spányi has won first prize at international harpsichord competitions in Nantes (1984) and Paris (1987). He has given concerts in most European countries as a soloist on five historical keyboard instruments (organ, harpsichord, fortepiano, clavichord, tangent piano) as well as playing continuo with various chamber music groups and orchestras. He has been artistic director of the Hungarian baroque orchestra Concerto Armonico Budapest since its foundation in 1983. He has recorded an extensive discography for different labels as a soloist and with orchestra. Between 2006-9 Miklós Spányi was artistic director of the Finnish early music group Ensemble OpusX.

For some years Miklós Spányi's work as a performer and researcher has been focused on the oeuvre of Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach. Today he is one of the world’s most acknowledged C.P.E.Bach scholars and performers. For the Swedish label BIS he has been recording C.P.E.Bach’s Complete Keyboard Concertos as well as his Complete Solo Keyboard Music, of both series numerous cd's have already been issued. Hungaroton Records has launched the series Tangent Piano Collection with Miklós Spányi, mostly featuring chamber music with tangent piano. For Könemann Music Budapest Miklós Spányi has editied some volumes of C.P.E.Bach’s solo keyboard works. He has also worked intensively to revive C.P.E. Bach's favourite keyboard instrument, the clavichord. Miklós Spányi was teaching at the Oulu Conservatoire and the Sibelius Academy in Finland between 1990-2012. Currently he is associated as teacher with the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst in Mannheim, Germany, with the Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest, Hungary and with the Conservatorium van Amsterdam in the Netherlands. He has given masterclasses in the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, Switzerland, France, Portugal, Hungary and Finland.

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