CPE Bach (Carl Philipp Emanuel)

[Mandryka]

https://static.qobuz.com/goodies/29/000173892.pdf

The booklet from Tom Beghin's Wq 50 recording.

[Anooj]

Opinions on this one? Quite cheap at JPC at the moment, but the reviews for it are all over the place in appraisal.

[Cato]

Here is a way to test the performance.  Unfortunately, each movement is on a separate YouTube page!

This page should allow you to find the entire performance:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAeAbBzytOkYyXRSAg6Kgvw

Here is the first movement of the First Prussian Sonata:

[André]

Opinions on this one? Quite cheap at JPC at the moment, but the reviews for it are all over the place in appraisal.

I love that pianist's Clementi sonatas series. Clementi and CP Bach share a similar inclination to inject dramatic gestures as well as a love of pathos that Beethoven would pick up later (Pathétique sonata).  I think she should be excellent in CPE as well.

[Mandryka]

I just listened to the andante of the first sonata - I thought she made it sound like an operatic recitative without words. I think that's pretty interesting.

[SonicMan46]

Keyboard Concertos w/ Miklós Spányi mainly on tanget piano; w/ two different orchestras - my collection is about complete! Vols. 14 & 15 eClassical MP3 DLs at half price with a coupon found online (burned to one CD-R); and Vols. 19 & 20 physical copies also at half price in the mail - CPE wrote over 50 of these KB concertos (believe Spanyi has added some extras on these 20 recordings) - NOW, he has also recorded 40 volumes of the composers solo keyboard works mostly on clavichord - list of compositions HERE, if interested.  Dave

 

[Jo498]

Not sure about the exact number, there are at least 2 double concerti, one of them for harpsichord and fortepiano/hammerklavier and a bunch of pieces called "sonata" but with orchestra and keyboard, not sure if or how they were/are distinguished from the bona fide concerti...
And some have also been played on organ, again not sure if this was specified or not. (AFAIK all the other concerti by CPE Bach (cello, flute, oboe) also have versions as harpsichord concerti.)

I am not sufficiently invested in the composer to get the whole lot but few I have from the BIS series seem very good to me.

[SonicMan46]

Not sure about the exact number, there are at least 2 double concerti, one of them for harpsichord and fortepiano/hammerklavier and a bunch of pieces called "sonata" but with orchestra and keyboard, not sure if or how they were/are distinguished from the bona fide concerti...
And some have also been played on organ, again not sure if this was specified or not. (AFAIK all the other concerti by CPE Bach (cello, flute, oboe) also have versions as harpsichord concerti.)

I am not sufficiently invested in the composer to get the whole lot but few I have from the BIS series seem very good to me.

Well, from his compositional link given in my previous post, his cello (3), flute (4), & oboe (2) concertos are arrangements of his KB concertos, as shown below.

The Spanyi concerto recordings with him mostly on an excellent sounding tangent piano are well done with great BIS engineering - was hard for me to decide when to stop, but kept finding these (took months) at good prices (BRO, Amazon MP, JPC, Prestomusic, and eBay) and just 2 are DLs although the booklets were available.  These are worth exploring - probably will not delve into the 40 CDs of Spanyi doing the solo works.  Dave

* H 430. Keyboard Concerto in A minor (Wq 26) (1750)
    * H 431. Flute Concerto in A minor (Wq 166) (1750) (arrangement of H.430)
    * H 432. Cello Concerto in A minor (Wq 170) (1750) (arrangement of H.430)
* H 434. Keyboard Concerto in B-flat major (Wq 28) (1751)
    * H 435. Flute Concerto in B-flat major (Wq 167) (1751) (arrangement of H.434)
    * H 436. Cello Concerto in B-flat major (Wq 171) (1751) (arrangement of H.434)
* H 437. Keyboard Concerto in A major (Wq 29) (1753)
    * H 438. Flute Concerto in A major (Wq 168) (1753) (arrangement of H.437)
    * H 439. Cello Concerto in A major (Wq 172) (1753) (arrangement of H.437)
* H 444. Keyboard Concerto in G major (Wq 34) (1755)
    * H 445. Flute Concerto in G major (Wq 169) (1755) (arrangement of H.444)
* H 465. Keyboard Concerto in B-flat major (Wq 39) (1765)
    * H 466. Oboe Concerto in B-flat major (Wq 164) (1765) (arrangement of H.465)
* H 467. Keyboard Concerto in E-flat major (Wq 40) (1765)
    * H 468. Oboe Concerto in E-flat major (Wq 165) (1765) (arrangement of H.467)