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C.P.E Bach – Keyboard Concertos, Volume 19

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Catalogue numberBIS-1957 CD
Release date2013-03-10
Discs1
Orig. sample rate96000Hz
Total time65:04

Recording of the Month, Musicweb International & Musicweb Int Download 05/2013
Nominated to the 2014 International Classical Music Awards (ICMA): Concerto category



On the penultimate disc in his series of the complete keyboard concertos by C.P.E. Bach, Miklós Spányi completes the set of six concertos (Sei Concerti, Wq 43/1-6) begun on Volume 17. Bach finished working on the set in 1771, but had already advertised its coming publication. In a bid to reach as many potential subscribers as possible, he marketed the works as ‘easy’, and also included optional parts for wind instruments: two horns in all the fast movements, replaced by flutes in the slow movements. Bach’s aim was to make the works appealing to both players and listeners, and the result is a set of highly attractive pieces, with approachable melodies and dance rhythms but also displaying a new freedom with regard to conventional concerto form. With the expert support of the Hungarian period band Concerto Armonico, Miklós Spányi performs the solo parts of Wq 43/5 and 43/6 on a harpsichord, a copy of an instrument from 1745. Inspired by the English harpsichords that were imported in great number to Northern Germany during Bach’s time, this instrument has been fitted with a so-called ‘swell device’, enabling the performer to achieve dynamic shadings and crescendo-diminuendo effects consistent with the instructions in Bach’s scores. Some seven years after the Sei Concerti, Bach composed the concertos in G major (Wq 44) and D major (Wq 45) – two works which, although composed in the same year, are strikingly different in character, evidence of Bach’s continuing desire to give each new work a distinctive identity. This has led Miklós Spányi to choose to perform the Wq 44 concerto on a fortepiano from 1798, by the English maker Broadwood, returning to the harpsichord for the final work on the disc.
 
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  Composer: Bach, Carl Philipp Emanuel
  Concerto in G major, Wq 43/5 (H 475) 12:27
01 I. Adagio – Presto 05:17 $ 0.63 USD
02 II. Adagio 02:04 $ 0.25 USD
03 III. Allegro 05:06 $ 0.61 USD
 
  Concerto in C major, Wq 43/6 (H 476) 19:01
04 I. Allegro di molto 07:46 $ 0.93 USD
05 II. Larghetto 03:25 $ 0.41 USD
06 III. Allegro 07:50 $ 0.94 USD
 
  Concerto in G major, Wq 44 (H 477) 15:02
07 I. Allegretto 06:29 $ 0.78 USD
08 II. Andantino 04:38 $ 0.56 USD
09 III. Allegro 03:55 $ 0.47 USD
 
  Concerto in D major, Wq 45 (H 478) 17:13
10 I. Allegretto 06:57 $ 0.83 USD
11 II. Andantino 06:37 $ 0.79 USD
12 III. Allegro 03:39 $ 0.44 USD
 
  Album total 65:04
ComposerBach, Carl Philipp Emanuel
OrchestraConcerto Armonico
HarpsichordSpányi, Miklós

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