The collection includes a wide range of genres, such as multi-movement works, a free fantasia, a learned fugue, and other short pieces of varying difficulty.
Composer's Artistic Vision
The title "verschieden" (various) for C. P. E. Bach's collection is significant, as it is his most diverse publication in content and appeal to clients of varying technical and musical sophistication.
Interpretation
The performer, Miklós Spányi, improvised elaborate figurations for the Fantasia in F major, Wq 112/15, based on C. P. E. Bach's suggestions in his treatise "Versuch über die wahre Art das Clavier zu spielen."
Composition History
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach's "Clavierstücke verschiedener Art" (Keyboard Pieces of various Kinds), Wq 112/1-19, was published in 1765 by Georg Ludwig Winter of Berlin.
Instruments
The harpsichord used for this recording was built in 2007 by Michael Walker, modeled after a 1745 instrument by Joannes Daniel Dulcken, and includes an additional swell device.
Performer Biography
Miklós Spányi has dedicated his career as a performer and researcher to the works of Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, completing a 20-volume recording of all Bach's keyboard concertos.
Composer Biography
C. P. E. Bach's father, Johann Sebastian Bach, and his older brother, Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, also composed unaccompanied keyboard concertos.
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