CPE Bach - Complete Keyboard Variations
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Label: Brilliant Classics
Cat No: 95305
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 2
Genre: Instrumental
Release Date: 19th February 2016
Contents
Works
Allegretto con Variazioni, Wq118/5 H65Arioso con variazioni in A major, for violin and harpsichord, Wq79 H535
Arioso mit 7 Variationen, Wq118/4 H54
Canzonetta (von der Grossherzogin von Gotha) mit 6 Variationen, Wq118/8
Menuett mit 5 Variationen, Wq118/3 H44
Minuetto (di Locatelli) mit 21 Variationen, Wq118/7 H14
Variationen uber ein Arioso mit veranderten Reprisen, Wq118/10 H259
Variations (12) in G major 'Romance', Wq118/6 H226
Variations (12) on 'Folie d'Espagne', Wq118/9, H263
Variations in F major on 'Ich schlief, da traumte mir', Wq118/1 H69
Variations on an Arietta in A major, Wq118/2 H155
Artists
Andrea Coen (fortepiano)Works
Allegretto con Variazioni, Wq118/5 H65Arioso con variazioni in A major, for violin and harpsichord, Wq79 H535
Arioso mit 7 Variationen, Wq118/4 H54
Canzonetta (von der Grossherzogin von Gotha) mit 6 Variationen, Wq118/8
Menuett mit 5 Variationen, Wq118/3 H44
Minuetto (di Locatelli) mit 21 Variationen, Wq118/7 H14
Variationen uber ein Arioso mit veranderten Reprisen, Wq118/10 H259
Variations (12) in G major 'Romance', Wq118/6 H226
Variations (12) on 'Folie d'Espagne', Wq118/9, H263
Variations in F major on 'Ich schlief, da traumte mir', Wq118/1 H69
Variations on an Arietta in A major, Wq118/2 H155
Artists
Andrea Coen (fortepiano)About
For his latest release Andrea Coen has turned to the eleven sets of keyboard variations which CPE Bach composed over a period of 45 years, centred round his service to the Court of Frederick the Great in the magnificent palace in Potsdam. The best known, thanks to its ubiquitous melody, is the La folia / Les folies d’Espagne set, but there are anonymous ariosi and Italian and German keyboard works from which CPE took ever‐inventive inspiration, indicating the cosmopolitan breadth of his interests, which is further illustrated by the variation sets themselves. They explore every facet of contemporary keyboard technique, including the developing style of legato on the fortepiano instruments newly developed by Gottfried Silbermann, the instrument‐maker most admired by CPE’s father – on this recording Coen plays a modern copy of a Silbermann model made by Kerstin Schwarz.
Dazzling runs and scales, hand‐crossing at speed, brief flourishes of contrapuntal intricacy, stately Andantes which often form the still centre of the variation sets: all are designed by CPE not to tax the brain but to give pleasure and demonstrate a musician’s skill. CPE’s contemporary Reichardt could justly remark of both his playing and his music that ‘he shows quite clearly the great knowledge of harmony and the immeasurable richness of rare and unusual turns of phrase that mark him as the greatest original genius.’
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