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See Terms & Conditions for p&p rates. | |  | CPE Bach: Keyboard Sonatas Volume 2
Hyperion presents a second volume of CPE Bach’s startlingly original and inventive keyboard sonatas. This release spans the composer’s career, taking the listener from the highly expressive manner of his early works to his mastery of the Classical style—in which he still retains the distinctive characteristics, the fantastical changes of mood and tempo which both astounded and perplexed his contemporaries. Danny Driver proves a peerless guide to this fascinating music, performing with elegance and vigour. “Danny Driver is intimately in touch with the fluctuations of the musical language....His feel for the harmonic explorations in the slow movement [of the E major Sonata] and the rhythmic mischievousness of the finale likewise echoes the music’s spirit...Driver plays with an imagination and subtlety fully equal to Bach’s own.” The Telegraph, 2nd November 2012 ***** “Driver revels in Emanuel's idiosyncrasies, underlining the spontaneous and edgier qualities in the composer's Empfindsamer stil (sensitive style).” BBC Music Magazine, January 2013 **** | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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| |  | CPE Bach: Sonatas and Rondos
Bach, C P E: | Sonata in G minor, W. 65/17 (H. 47) Rondo I in A major, Wq. 58 Sonata in C minor, Wq65/31 (H121) Sonata I in D major, Wq. 61/6 Sonata in F sharp minor, Wq.52/4 (H.37) Rondo II in D minor, Wq. 61/6 Sonata in G major, H.119 (W.62/19) Rondo II in C minor, Wq. 59/5 Sonata I in E minor, Wq. 59/5 Sonata in A major, Wq65/32 (H135) |
“Pletnev's inspired 1998 celebration of CPE Bach proved a landmark, trailing translucent wit and mercurial poetry in its poised pianistic wake. Fresh and dazzling.” BBC Music Magazine, November 2012 ***** | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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| |  | C P E Bach - Solo Keyboard Music Volume 23Sonatas from 1750-58 and other pieces
Bach, C P E: | Clavierstück für die rechte oder linke Hand allein, Wq117/1 (H241) Fantasia in D minor, Wq117/12 (H224) Fantasia in G major, Wq117/11 (H223) Fantasia in D major, Wq 117/14 Fugue in D minor, Wq119/2 (H99) Sonata in G major, Wq62/11 (H63) Sonata in G major, Wq62/14 (H77) Sonata in C minor, Wq65/31 (H121) Sonata in A major, Wq65/32 (H135) Solfeggio in A major, Wq117/4 (H222) Solfeggio in E flat major, Wq117/3 (H221) Solfeggio in C minor, Wq117/2 (H220) |
In his acclaimed series of C.P.E. Bach's music for solo keyboard, Miklós Spányi has constructed a programme consisting of four sonatas from the 1750's, including the closing Sonata in A major (Wq65/32). The sonatas are interspersed with a number of shorter pieces: Solfeggios and Fantasias composed mainly to be used in the teaching of Bach's own students. Particularly interesting is the Fantasia in D major, Wq117/14, an example of Bach's ‘free fantasias’ which is completely unmeasured, requiring the performer to devise his or her own appropriate rhythm in the style of an improvisation. Of his most recent disc in the series, International Record Review wrote 'Anyone expecting a chaste, Dresden-china simplicity is in for a culture schock as Spányi probes beneath the surface of Bach's highly articulate musical surfaces with a temporal plasticity that creates the impression of living, breathing musical organisms.' “Spanyi's inspiring touch adds magic on this delicate instrument. Gentle tonal subtlety provides rich rewards.” BBC Music Magazine, March 2012 “Vol. 23 is a veritable box of delights...We can revel in the sheer variety of JSB's most outlandish son, with music from the frankly weird to the exultantly brilliant.” Gramophone Magazine, September 2012 | | | (also available to download from $10.50) | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. (Available now to download.) |
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