C.P.E. Bach: The Solo Keyboard Music, Vol. 39 Miklós Spányi

• Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714 - 1788): Clavierstücke verschiedener Art, Wq. 112 (Keyboard Excerpts):
• 1 Clavierstücke verschiedener Art, Wq. 112 (Keyboard Excerpts): No. 1a, Concerto in C Major. I. Allegro 09:12
• 2 Clavierstücke verschiedener Art, Wq. 112 (Keyboard Excerpts): No. 1b, Concerto in C Major. II. Largo 07:28
• 3 Clavierstücke verschiedener Art, Wq. 112 (Keyboard Excerpts): No. 1c, Concerto in C Major. III. Allegro 06:33
• 4 Clavierstücke verschiedener Art, Wq. 112 (Keyboard Excerpts): No. 2, Fantasia in D Major 00:39
• 5 Clavierstücke verschiedener Art, Wq. 112 (Keyboard Excerpts): No. 3, Minuets I & II in D Major 02:37
• 6 Clavierstücke verschiedener Art, Wq. 112 (Keyboard Excerpts): No. 4, Solfeggio in G Major 00:47
• 7 Clavierstücke verschiedener Art, Wq. 112 (Keyboard Excerpts): No. 5, Alla polacca in A Minor 01:35
• 8 Clavierstücke verschiedener Art, Wq. 112 (Keyboard Excerpts): No. 7a, Sonata in D Minor. I. Allegretto 07:02
• 9 Clavierstücke verschiedener Art, Wq. 112 (Keyboard Excerpts): No. 7b, Sonata in D Minor. II. Poco adagio e mesto 02:46
• 10 Clavierstücke verschiedener Art, Wq. 112 (Keyboard Excerpts): No. 7c, Sonata in D Minor. III. Allegro assai 04:28
• 11 Clavierstücke verschiedener Art, Wq. 112 (Keyboard Excerpts): No. 8, Fantasia in B-Flat Major 01:03
• 12 Clavierstücke verschiedener Art, Wq. 112 (Keyboard Excerpts): No. 9, Minuets I & II in D Major 02:47
• 13 Clavierstücke verschiedener Art, Wq. 112 (Keyboard Excerpts): No. 10, Solfeggio in C Major 01:04
• 14 Clavierstücke verschiedener Art, Wq. 112 (Keyboard Excerpts): No. 11, Alla polacca in G Minor 01:46
• 15 Clavierstücke verschiedener Art, Wq. 112 (Keyboard Excerpts): No. 13a, Symphony in G Major. I. Allegro di molto 04:56
• 16 Clavierstücke verschiedener Art, Wq. 112 (Keyboard Excerpts): No. 13b, Symphony in G Major. II. Largo 04:44
• 17 Clavierstücke verschiedener Art, Wq. 112 (Keyboard Excerpts): No. 13c, Symphony in G Major. III. Allegro assai 04:39
• 18 Clavierstücke verschiedener Art, Wq. 112 (Keyboard Excerpts): No. 15, Fantasia in F Major 03:02
• 19 Clavierstücke verschiedener Art, Wq. 112 (Keyboard Excerpts): No. 16, Minuets I & II in A Major 02:49
• 20 Clavierstücke verschiedener Art, Wq. 112 (Keyboard Excerpts): No. 17, Alla polacca in D Major 01:37
• 21 Clavierstücke verschiedener Art, Wq. 112 (Keyboard Excerpts): No. 18, Solfeggio in G Major 02:16
• 22 Clavierstücke verschiedener Art, Wq. 112 (Keyboard Excerpts): No. 19, Fugue in G Minor 04:52
• Total Runtime 01:18:42

Info for C.P.E. Bach: The Solo Keyboard Music, Vol. 39

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.

Miklós Spányi, harpsichord

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.

Booklet for C.P.E. Bach: The Solo Keyboard Music, Vol. 39