Concerto in C major, Wq 112/1 (H 190) Fantasia in D major, Wq 112/2 (H 144) Minuetto 1 & 2 in D major, Wq 112/3 (H 165) Solfeggio in G major, Wq 112/4 (H 145) Alla polacca in A minor, Wq 112/5 (H 166) Sonata in D minor, Wq 112/7 (H 179) Fantasia in B flat major, Wq 112/8 (H 146) Minuetto 1 & 2 in D major, Wq 112/9 (H 167) Solfeggio in C major, Wq 112/10 (H 147) Alla polacca in G minor, Wq 112/11 (H 168) Sinfonia in G major, Wq 112/13 (H 191) Fantasia in F major, Wq 112/15 (H 148) Minuetto 1 & 2 in A major, Wq 112/16 (H 169) Alla polacca in D major, Wq 112/17 (H 170) Solfeggio in G major, Wq 112/18 (H 149) Fugue in G minor, Wq 112/19 (H 101.5)
On this amply filled disc, Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach’s Clavierstücke verschiedener Art (Keyboard Pieces of various Kinds) is presented in its entirety, with the exception of three songs for voice and keyboard. This collection is the most diverse of Bach’s publications and includes multi-movement genres, a free fantasia, a learned fugue, and various short pieces of varying degrees of difficulty. The variety suggests that Bach did not want for his keyboard music to be strictly divided into ‘light’ and ‘serious’ pieces. But he also wished to demonstrate a wide range of techniques of keyboard composition and performance: orchestral writing in the symphony and the concerto, two-part textures in the sonata, polyphony in the fugue, and free and virtuosic composition in the fantasias and solfeggios.
In order to bring a similar variety to his recording of the collection, Miklós Spányi has chosen to perform the pieces on a harpsichord built after the Antwerp maker Joannes Daniel Dulcken. To this double-manual harpsichord offering a wide range of possible registrations, Spányi has added a so-called swell device which facilitates quick dynamic changes. This makes it possible to bring out the contrasts between orchestral and soloistic textures in the Concerto in C major, but also to highlight the different characters in the contrasting pairs of Minuets. Recording: July/August 2018 at the Christ the King Church, Rózsadomb, Budapest, Hungary. Instrumentarium: Double manual harpsichord built in 2007 by Michael Walker, after Joannes Daniel Dulcken, Antwerp 1745. Płyta wydana w opakowaniu BIS ekopak.
