This album is part of a series, released on the Capriccio label in 1991 and devoted to the keyboard music of Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach. It was reissued on Phoenix Edition in 2011, by which time there were still very few choices for most of the music. Consider the two sets of Kurze und leichte Clavierstücke (Short and Easy Keyboard Pieces) recorded here. Student works, they represent C.P.E. Bach's musical thinking in miniature structures in some cases just a few seconds long. They're consistently intriguing. Various ...
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This album is part of a series, released on the Capriccio label in 1991 and devoted to the keyboard music of Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach. It was reissued on Phoenix Edition in 2011, by which time there were still very few choices for most of the music. Consider the two sets of Kurze und leichte Clavierstücke (Short and Easy Keyboard Pieces) recorded here. Student works, they represent C.P.E. Bach's musical thinking in miniature structures in some cases just a few seconds long. They're consistently intriguing. Various keyboardists are represented in the series; this one features Britain's Linda Nicholson playing a clavichord. That's an attraction in itself. The clavichord was quite common as a domestic instrument, and when one is used for sonatas like the three C.P.E. Bach works included here, there's no need to try to explain the dynamic markings that sometimes appear in his music, for the clavichord, unlike the harpsichord, was capable of dynamic gradations. Nicholson doesn't stint in applying them,...
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