“There is in it something highly original. It has a special dynamism. He wrote extremely animated, vitamin C movements, packed with energy, that differ from the Baroque norm and even Mozart’s dynamism.” Miklós Spányi said this about the music of Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach in an interview on the 300th anniversary of the birth of the genius. Miklós Spányi, who teaches at the College of Music in Mannheim, the Conservatory in Amsterdam and the Budapest Liszt Academy, is approaching the end of recording a series (more than 40 albums for BIS Records) of works by the most talented of Johann Sebastian Bach’s sons. In 2011 he founded the Ensemble MiMaGe with violinist Márta Ábrahám and double-bass player György Schweigert, and they are sometimes joined by flutist János Bálint, as on this occasion. The opening concert of the Liszt Academy Concert Centre-organized C. P. E. Bach weekend gives a cross-section of the sonatas of the Bach boy: those very works that the composer’s patron Frederick the Great of Prussia enjoyed playing when he wanted to escape the intrigues of court life.