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This recording 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. To provide compositions for these new keyboard players was financially profitable, but Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach also had another reason for welcoming arrangements: the keyboard instruments were his favourite medium, and he devoted himself to making them into solo instruments as important as the violin and other melody instruments.
The eighteen short pieces of this well-filled programme all exist in versions for various small groups of instruments or, in some cases, for mechanical instruments such as the barrel organ. Miklós Spányi has grouped them around three larger-scaled works, of which two are arrangements of symphonies while the Concerto in F major for solo keyboard may in fact be an original composition: a version for keyboard and orchestra exists, but is possibly a later development. In the case of several of the arrangements it is uncertain who made them – some of them only survive in the hand of one of Bach’s admirers. In his liner notes, Spányi proposes that they could in fact be the original versions, however, as he sees a striking similarity to Bach’s other, indisputably genuine small keyboard pieces. © BIS Records
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Miklos Spanyi, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Stephan Reh, Producer, SoundEngineer - Johann Jacob Heinrich Westphal, Composer
2021 BIS 2021 (P) BIS
Miklos Spanyi, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Stephan Reh, Producer, SoundEngineer - Johann Jacob Heinrich Westphal, Composer
2021 BIS 2021 (P) BIS
Miklos Spanyi, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Stephan Reh, Producer, SoundEngineer - Johann Jacob Heinrich Westphal, Composer
2021 BIS 2021 (P) BIS
Miklos Spanyi, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Stephan Reh, Producer, SoundEngineer - Johann Jacob Heinrich Westphal, Composer
2021 BIS 2021 (P) BIS
Symphony No. 2 in D Major, Wq. 176, H. 651 (Arr. for Harpsichord) (Johann Jacob Heinrich Westphal)
Miklos Spanyi, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Stephan Reh, Producer, SoundEngineer - Johann Jacob Heinrich Westphal, Composer
2021 BIS 2021 (P) BIS
Miklos Spanyi, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Stephan Reh, Producer, SoundEngineer - Johann Jacob Heinrich Westphal, Composer
2021 BIS 2021 (P) BIS
Miklos Spanyi, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Stephan Reh, Producer, SoundEngineer - Johann Jacob Heinrich Westphal, Composer
2021 BIS 2021 (P) BIS
Miklos Spanyi, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Stephan Reh, Producer, SoundEngineer - Johann Jacob Heinrich Westphal, Composer
2021 BIS 2021 (P) BIS
Miklos Spanyi, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Stephan Reh, Producer, SoundEngineer - Johann Jacob Heinrich Westphal, Composer
2021 BIS 2021 (P) BIS
Miklos Spanyi, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Stephan Reh, Producer, SoundEngineer - Johann Jacob Heinrich Westphal, Composer
2021 BIS 2021 (P) BIS
Miklos Spanyi, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Stephan Reh, Producer, SoundEngineer - Johann Jacob Heinrich Westphal, Composer
2021 BIS 2021 (P) BIS
Miklos Spanyi, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Stephan Reh, Producer, SoundEngineer - Johann Jacob Heinrich Westphal, Composer
2021 BIS 2021 (P) BIS
Miklos Spanyi, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Stephan Reh, Producer, SoundEngineer - Johann Jacob Heinrich Westphal, Composer
2021 BIS 2021 (P) BIS
Miklos Spanyi, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Stephan Reh, Producer, SoundEngineer - Johann Jacob Heinrich Westphal, Composer
2021 BIS 2021 (P) BIS
Miklos Spanyi, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Stephan Reh, Producer, SoundEngineer - Johann Jacob Heinrich Westphal, Composer
2021 BIS 2021 (P) BIS
Harpsichord Concerto in F Major, H. 242 (Johann Jacob Heinrich Westphal)
Miklos Spanyi, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Stephan Reh, Producer, SoundEngineer - Johann Jacob Heinrich Westphal, Composer
2021 BIS 2021 (P) BIS
Miklos Spanyi, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Stephan Reh, Producer, SoundEngineer - Johann Jacob Heinrich Westphal, Composer
2021 BIS 2021 (P) BIS
Miklos Spanyi, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Stephan Reh, Producer, SoundEngineer - Johann Jacob Heinrich Westphal, Composer
2021 BIS 2021 (P) BIS
Miklos Spanyi, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Stephan Reh, Producer, SoundEngineer - Johann Jacob Heinrich Westphal, Composer
2021 BIS 2021 (P) BIS
Miklos Spanyi, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Stephan Reh, Producer, SoundEngineer - Johann Jacob Heinrich Westphal, Composer
2021 BIS 2021 (P) BIS
Miklos Spanyi, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Stephan Reh, Producer, SoundEngineer - Johann Jacob Heinrich Westphal, Composer
2021 BIS 2021 (P) BIS
Miklos Spanyi, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Stephan Reh, Producer, SoundEngineer - Johann Jacob Heinrich Westphal, Composer
2021 BIS 2021 (P) BIS
Miklos Spanyi, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Stephan Reh, Producer, SoundEngineer - Johann Jacob Heinrich Westphal, Composer
2021 BIS 2021 (P) BIS
Miklos Spanyi, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Stephan Reh, Producer, SoundEngineer - Johann Jacob Heinrich Westphal, Composer
2021 BIS 2021 (P) BIS
Symphony in E Minor (Attrib. C.P.E. Bach's Wq. 122/3, H. 115) (Johann Jacob Heinrich Westphal)
Miklos Spanyi, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Stephan Reh, Producer, SoundEngineer - Johann Jacob Heinrich Westphal, Composer
2021 BIS 2021 (P) BIS
Miklos Spanyi, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Stephan Reh, Producer, SoundEngineer - Johann Jacob Heinrich Westphal, Composer
2021 BIS 2021 (P) BIS
Miklos Spanyi, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Stephan Reh, Producer, SoundEngineer - Johann Jacob Heinrich Westphal, Composer
2021 BIS 2021 (P) BIS
Album review
This recording 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. To provide compositions for these new keyboard players was financially profitable, but Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach also had another reason for welcoming arrangements: the keyboard instruments were his favourite medium, and he devoted himself to making them into solo instruments as important as the violin and other melody instruments.
The eighteen short pieces of this well-filled programme all exist in versions for various small groups of instruments or, in some cases, for mechanical instruments such as the barrel organ. Miklós Spányi has grouped them around three larger-scaled works, of which two are arrangements of symphonies while the Concerto in F major for solo keyboard may in fact be an original composition: a version for keyboard and orchestra exists, but is possibly a later development. In the case of several of the arrangements it is uncertain who made them – some of them only survive in the hand of one of Bach’s admirers. In his liner notes, Spányi proposes that they could in fact be the original versions, however, as he sees a striking similarity to Bach’s other, indisputably genuine small keyboard pieces. © BIS Records
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 27 track(s)
- Total length: 01:21:46
- 1 Digital booklet
- Main artists: Miklós Spányi
- Composer: Johann Jacob Heinrich Westphal
- Label: BIS
- Genre: Classical
2021 BIS 2021 BIS
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