Miklos Spanyi - Solo Keyboard Music Vol. 30

Along with more than 150 sonatas, Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach composed a large number of single-movement pieces for solo keyboard. On the present disc Mikl�s Sp�nyi presents three sets intended primarily for didactic use: the two collections of Kurze und leichte Clavierst�cke and the 6 Sonatine nuove. Of the 28 pieces contained in them, only one has a duration of more than 3 minutes, and the majority are less than two minutes long. With a seemingly boundless imagination C.P.E. Bach managed to invest each piece with a distinct character, to a degree that makes Mikl�s Sp�nyi compare him to later master miniaturists including Schumann, Schoenberg and Bart�k. However, not all of Bach's shorter pieces were intended for study, and on this disc the closing Abschied has an almost private character - a rondo composed as a farewell to one of his favourite instruments.