C.P.E. Bach: The Solo Keyboard Music: Keyboard Transcriptions I - Volume 40

PRODUKTBESCHREIBUNGEN
This album 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 Bach also had another reason for welcoming arrangements: the keyboard instruments were his favorite medium, and he devoted himself to making them into solo instruments as important as the violin and other melody instruments. The eighteen short pieces on this well-filled disc 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 to the disc, 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.

1: Minuetto in D Major
2: Polonoise in a Major
3: Allegretto Grazioso in C Major, Wq116/57, H331
4: Menuett in G Major
5: I. Allegro
6: II. Andante
7: III. Presto
8: Minuetto in G Major
9: Marsch in D Major, Wq116/46, H320
10: Menuett in D Major
11: Polonoise in B-flat Major
12: Menuet in C Major, Wq116/47, H321
13: Presto in a Minor
14: Polonoise in a Major
15: Allegro in C Major, Wq116/51, H325
16: I. Allegro Assai
17: II. Larghetto
18: III. Poco Presto
19: Allegro in B-flat Major
20: Polonoise in F Major
21: Menuett in D Major
22: Allegro Di Molto in a Major
23: Langsam Und Traurig in a Minor, Wq116/50, H324
24: Polonoise in D Major, Wq116/49, H323
25: I. Allegro Assai
26: II. Andante
27: III. Allegro

Composer: Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, Johann Jacob Heinrich Westphal

Number of Discs: 1

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