CPE Bach: 30 November – 4 December

[doversoul1]

This seems to the a new CoW

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06qjmfx

This was on in 2011 and 2014.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b011ckr5

[MickyD]

Very good that we are to have a whole week of my favourite member of the Bach family.

I just wish BIS would think again and give us the chance to buy all the Spanyi recordings in a big box - or two, one for the concerti and another for the solo keyboard works.

[gurnemanz]

I shall be tuning in. I don't know if this is of interest but the first contact with CPE's music that I can remember was keyboard music as a background to a Radio 3 production of Danton's Death in 1969 (yes, I found it in this Beeb archive). I was an undergraduate student of German and we were doing the Sturm und Drang including Büchner - famous of course for Woyzeck taken up by Alban Berg. Good cast including Ronald Pickup and Glenda Jackson, I note + CPE played by Lionel Salter, which really caught my ear at the time. No indication as to what music it was. Strangely, I didn't actually get around to acquiring a recording of his keyboard music until about 30 years later: this famous Pletnev disc which I am listening to now. I now have a few recordings including the marvellous 3 disc set of the Prussian & Württemberg Sonatas by Bob van Asperen

[Pianorak]

. . . the marvellous 3 disc set of the Prussian & Württemberg Sonatas by Bob van Asperen

An excellent set. I love those sonatas.

[MickyD]

The first time I heard CPE Bach was in a pioneering account of two of the harpsichord concertos by Trevor Pinnock and the English Concert - Wq14 is one of my absolute favourite concertos and this early performance still blows me away. Shortly after that LP, I quickly acquired Hogwood's 2 LP set of some symphonies, which again was such a revelation to me.

[oddoneout]

Just listening to the evening repeat - is that really a clavichord in the first item? I didn't hear DmcC's preamble so am going by what's in RT but I jumped at the crash as of something being dropped on the strings, and it continues to sound like a somewhat aggressive harpsichord.

[MickyD]

Just listening to the evening repeat - is that really a clavichord in the first item? I didn't hear DmcC's preamble so am going by what's in RT but I jumped at the crash as of something being dropped on the strings, and it continues to sound like a somewhat aggressive harpsichord.

I think it is far more likely to be a tangent piano rather than a clavichord - Spanyi has been using one for various discs in his series for BIS, including the concertos.

[richardfinegold]

Very good that we are to have a whole week of my favourite member of the Bach family.

I just wish BIS would think again and give us the chance to buy all the Spanyi recordings in a big box - or two, one for the concerti and another for the solo keyboard works.

Agreed. The full price of those discs is a bit daunting. For the price of about two of them I bought the Brilliant Classics C.P.E. Bach collection.