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C.P.E. Bach: The Solo Keyboard Music Vol. 41: Keyboard Transcriptions II

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Catalogue numberBIS-2397 SACD
Release date2024-07-25
Discs1
Orig. sample rate96000 Hz

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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, 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. Miklós 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.
 
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  Composer: Bach, Carl Philipp Emanuel
  Symphony in C Major, Wq. 174: H. 649 10:56
01 I. Allegro assai 04:08 $ 0.62 USD
02 II. Andante 03:31 $ 0.53 USD
03 III. Allegro 03:17 $ 0.49 USD
 
04 Allegro ma non troppo in E-Flat Major 03:48 $ 0.57 USD
 
05 Polonoise in E flat Major 01:22 $ 0.21 USD
 
06 March in F major 01:56 $ 0.29 USD
 
  Menuet in G major 03:50
07 Menuet in G Major 01:06 $ 0.17 USD
 
  Harpsichord Concertos, Wq. 43 24:32
08 I. Allegro di molto 09:29 $ 1.42 USD
09 II. Andante 05:13 $ 0.78 USD
10 III. Allegretto 09:50 $ 1.48 USD
 
11 Allegro in E Major 02:29 $ 0.37 USD
 
12 Menuet in F Major 03:01 $ 0.45 USD
 
  Concerto in E flat major, Wq 43/3 17:08
13 I. Allegro 08:09 $ 1.22 USD
14 II. Larghetto 03:33 $ 0.53 USD
15 III. Presto 05:26 $ 0.82 USD
 
  Menuet in G major 03:50
16 Menuet in G major 02:44 $ 0.41 USD
 
  Symphony in E flat major (arr.), Wq 179 13:53
17 I. Prestissimo 04:54 $ 0.74 USD
18 II. Larghetto 03:41 $ 0.55 USD
19 III. Presto 05:18 $ 0.80 USD
 
  Album total 82:55
ComposerBach, Carl Philipp Emanuel
PerformerSpányi, Miklós

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