Miklós Spányi - C.P.E. Bach - Solo Keyboard Music, Vol. 40 (2021) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

This recording 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 Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach also had another reason for welcoming arrangements: the keyboard instruments were his favourite medium, and he devoted himself to making them into solo instruments as important as the violin and other melody instruments.

The eighteen short pieces of this well-filled programme 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, 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.

TRACKLIST

1. Miklós Spányi - Minuetto in D Major (Attrib. C.P.E. Bach's Wq. 116/35, H. 309)
2. Miklós Spányi - Polonoise in A Major (Attrib. C.P.E. Bach's Wq. 116/34, H. 308)
3. Miklós Spányi - Allegretto grazioso in C Major, Wq. 116/57, H. 331
4. Miklós Spányi - Menuett in G Major (Attrib. C.P.E. Bach's Wq. 116/29, H. 303)
5. Miklós Spányi - I. Allegro
6. Miklós Spányi - II. Andante
7. Miklós Spányi - III. Presto
8. Miklós Spányi - Minuetto in G Major (Attrib. C.P.E. Bach's Wq. 116/31, H. 305)
9. Miklós Spányi - Marsch in D Major, Wq. 116/46, H. 320
10. Miklós Spányi - Menuett in D Major (Attrib. C.P.E. Bach's Wq. 116/40, H. 314)
11. Miklós Spányi - Polonoise in B-Flat Major (Attrib. C.P.E. Bach's Wq. 116/43, H. 317)
12. Miklós Spányi - Menuet in C Major, Wq. 116/47, H. 321
13. Miklós Spányi - Presto in A Minor (Attrib. C.P.E. Bach's Wq. 116/39, H. 313)
14. Miklós Spányi - Polonoise in A Major (Attrib. C.P.E. Bach's Wq. 116/42, H. 316)
15. Miklós Spányi - Allegro in C Major, Wq. 116/51, H. 325
16. Miklós Spányi - I. Allegro assai
17. Miklós Spányi - II. Larghetto
18. Miklós Spányi - III. Poco presto
19. Miklós Spányi - Allegro in B-Flat Major (Attrib. C.P.E. Bach's Wq. 116/38, H. 312)
20. Miklós Spányi - Polonoise in F Major (Attrib. C.P.E. Bach's Wq. 116/41, H. 315)
21. Miklós Spányi - Menuett in D Major (Attrib. C.P.E. Bach's Wq. 116/33, H. 307)
22. Miklós Spányi - Allegro di molto in A Major (Attrib. C.P.E. Bach's Wq. 116/36, H. 310)
23. Miklós Spányi - Langsam und traurig in A Minor, Wq. 116/50, H. 324
24. Miklós Spányi - Polonoise in D Major, Wq. 116/49, H. 323
25. Miklós Spányi - I. Allegro assai
26. Miklós Spányi - II. Andante
27. Miklós Spányi - III. Allegro



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