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C P E Bach - Complete Keyboard Concertos, Volume 18

Miklós Spányi (harpsichord)

Concerto Armonico

Playing a handsome-sounding copy of a mid-18th century Dulcken harpsichord, Spanyi is fastidiously responsive to Bach's chameleon changes of mood.

C P E Bach - Complete Keyboard Concertos, Volume 18

Miklós Spányi (harpsichord)

Concerto Armonico

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Playing a handsome-sounding copy of a mid-18th century Dulcken harpsichord, Spanyi is fastidiously responsive to Bach's chameleon changes of mood.

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Miklós Spányi continues his traversal of the keyboard concertos of Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, a series which in Gramophone has been called a ‘unique monument to one of the 18th century's most underrated composers’.

Spányi joins forces with the Hungarian period band Concerto Armonico, and together they offer us the first four works in a set of six, the Sei Concerti per il cembalo concertato.

Composed during the early 1770s, the Sei Concerti were among the few concertos that C.P.E. Bach didn’t write specifically for himself to play. Bach’s aim was to make the works appealing to both players and listeners

For these works, Miklós Spányi has chosen to perform the solo part on a harpsichord, a copy of an instrument from 1745 by the Antwerp builder Joannes Daniel Dulcken.

Contents and tracklist

I. Allegro di molto
Track length6:48
II. Andante
Track length3:32
III. Prestissimo
Track length5:14
I. Allegro di molto - Andante - Allegro di molto - Andante - Allegro di molto
Track length8:54
II. Andante
Track length4:56
III. Allegretto
Track length9:28
I. Allegro
Track length8:07
II. Larghetto
Track length2:58
III. Presto
Track length4:55
I. Allegro assai
Track length3:39
II. Poco adagio
Track length1:43
III. Tempo di minuetto
Track length2:47
IV. Allegro assai
Track length5:05

Awards and reviews

September 2012

Playing a handsome-sounding copy of a mid-18th century Dulcken harpsichord, Spanyi is fastidiously responsive to Bach's chameleon changes of mood.

January 2013

[Spanyi attaches] swell shutters to his instrument (don't worry, it's quite authentic!), thus making possible crescendos and diminuendos...The performances themselves are very good, with neat, crisp fingerwork from Spanyi expertly balanced with one-to-a-part orchestra which is clean and efficient
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