Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach explored new or unfamiliar genres and styles across his Kenner und Liebhaber series, adding idiosyncratic rondos and free fantasias to successive volumes.
Instruments
The tangent piano used on this recording, built in 1998 by Ghislain Potvlieghe, has bare wooden tangents that produce a harpsichord-like basic timbre, which can be modified by various stops.
Interpretation
The performer, Miklós Spányi, chose to use a tangent piano for this recording, as it represents the piano aesthetics in Germany during the 1770s and 1780s.
Performer Biography
Miklós Spányi, the performer, has concentrated his work as a performer and researcher on the oeuvre of Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, including recording all of Bach's keyboard concertos.
Compositional Technique
The fifth collection of Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach's Kenner und Liebhaber series shows an almost obsessive preoccupation with variation, where Bach varies parameters like texture, tonality, rhythmic pulse, and dynamics.
Historical Context
The period of publication for Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach's Kenner und Liebhaber collections was a vibrant time for keyboard instruments, with continued clavichord popularity, a harpsichord building surge, and the beginnings of the piano revolution.
Instruments
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach's own fortepiano was a 'clavecin royal', a term for large square pianos with bare wooden hammers and mutation stops for varied colors and effects.
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