The Solo Keyboard Music

With this recording, part 42 of the complete edition of Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach's music for solo piano, Miklós Spányi continues his exploration of transcriptions of concerti originally written for piano and orchestra, and adds some movements from early versions of sonatas (whose standard versions have appeared in earlier parts of this series). Four of the six concerti from the collection Wq 43 are heard here. When Bach published this collection of six concerti for keyboard instrument and orchestra in 1772, he also made a version for solo piano, intended for intermediate amateurs who could then play them at home without an orchestra and thus opened a much larger market. A clever move by the shrewd businessman Bach. On his decision to record these works on a clavichord instead of on a tangent piano, Spányi says that this offers "almost infinite possibilities for fine dynamic nuances" and that "the necessary dynamic contrasts can be emphasized even better than on other keyboard instruments from that era". Spányi adds that this release is a tribute to the clavichord, in particular to his own instrument, which was built by Joris Potvlieghe.