CPE Bach’s solo keyboard compositions help to illuminate the transition from JS Bach to Haydn and Mozart. On this, Volume 33 of BIS’s ambitious project to release all CPE Bach’s keyboard works, Hungarian keyboardist and scholar Miklós Spányi presents work from the third collection of ‘für Kenner und Liebhaber’ (for connoisseurs and amateurs), published between 1779 and 1787.

Spányi performs on a Belgian-made tangent piano – a harpsichord-like early fortepiano – modelled on a late-18th century instrument. Bach himself had access to a wide range of keyboards during the late-18th century boom of clavichord and...