Symphony No.2, Op.4 (1934 version)
Symphony No.4, Op.11
Romanza for violin and orchestra, Op.23a
Sumarnatt-Batsong (Barcarola d’una notte d’estate), Op.14 No.6
Cinquanta Variazioni Piccole, Op.8

For this recording three rather large-scale sonatas and a fantasia have been chosen. All three sonatas were composed in the period 1746-7. They may therefore be associated with the new Silbermann fortepiano, which so pleased Frederick the Great, King of Prusssia and C. P. E. Bach’s employer, when he first heard it in 1746 that he immediately ordered several such instruments. It is thus quite logic that Miklos Spanyi has chosen to perform these works on a copy of a 1749 Silbermann instrument. Since the keyboard instrument – the possibilities are many – featured in the series up to now has been the clavichord, the present volume will give the listener yet another perspective on the mastery of C.P.E. Bach – and of Spanyi himself.

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Release: Oct 2005