Miklós Spányi - C.P.E. Bach: The Solo Keyboard Music Vol. 41- Keyboard Transcriptions II (2024) [Digital Download 24/96]

This album 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. Providing compositions for these new keyboard players was financially profitable, but Bach also had another reason for welcoming arrangements: keyboard instruments were his favourite medium.

The seven short pieces on this well-filled disc all exist in versions for various small groups of instruments or, in some cases, for mechanical instruments. In his comments, Miklós Spányi suggests that they could in fact be the original versions, perhaps written down in keyboard notation as drafts for further versions, and later arranged by Bach on for various ensembles. Spányi has grouped these short pieces around four larger-scale works, of which two are arrangements of symphonies, probably not arranged by or for the composer himself. The solo keyboard arrangements of the two concertos, made by Bach himself and easier to play than the original concertos, were intended for amateurs. On this disc, Spányi uses an extremely versatile and colourful tangent piano, a very popular instrument in the second half of the 18th century. This particular instrument was built in 1998, after a model from 1799.

Tracklist:
01. Bach- Symphony in C Major, Wq. 174 (H. 649) [Arr. for Keyboard]- I. Allegro assai
02. Bach- Symphony in C Major, Wq. 174 (H. 649) [Arr. for Keyboard]- II. Andante
03. Bach- Symphony in C Major, Wq. 174 (H. 649) [Arr. for Keyboard]- III. Allegro
04. Bach- Allegro ma non troppo in E-Flat Major, Wq. 116-52 (H. 326)
05. Bach- Polonoise in E-Flat Major, Wq. 116-44 (H. 318)
06. Bach- March in F Major, Wq. 116-45 (H. 319)
07. Bach- Menuet in G Major, Wq. 116-48 (H. 322)
08. Bach- 6 Harpsichord Concertos, Wq. 43- No. 2 in D Major (H. 472) [Arr. for Solo Keyboard]- I. Allegro di molto
09. Bach- 6 Harpsichord Concertos, Wq. 43- No. 2 in D Major (H. 472) [Arr. for Solo Keyboard]- II. Andante
10. Bach- 6 Harpsichord Concertos, Wq. 43- No. 2 in D Major (H. 472) [Arr. for Solo Keyboard]- III. Allegretto
11. Bach- Allegro in E Major, Wq. 116-37 (H. 311)
12. Bach- Menuet in F Major, Wq. 116-32 (H. 306)
13. Bach- 6 Harpsichord Concertos, Wq. 43- No. 3 in E-Flat Major (H. 473) [Arranged for Solo Keyboard] - I. Allegro
14. Bach- 6 Harpsichord Concertos, Wq. 43- No. 3 in E-Flat Major (H. 473) [Arranged for Solo Keyboard]- II. Larghetto
15. Bach- 6 Harpsichord Concertos, Wq. 43- No. 3 in E-Flat Major (H. 473) [Arranged for Solo Keyboard]- III. Presto
16. Bach- Menuet in G Major, Wq. 116-30 (H. 304)
17. Bach- Symphony in E-Flat Major, Wq 179 (H. 654) [Arr. for Keyboard]- I. Prestissimo
18. Bach- Symphony in E-Flat Major, Wq 179 (H. 654) [Arr. for Keyboard]- II. Larghetto
19. Bach- Symphony in E-Flat Major, Wq 179 (H. 654) [Arr. for Keyboard]- III. Presto


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