Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site alice.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!alice!ark From: ark@alice.UUCP (Andrew Koenig) Newsgroups: net.audio Subject: Re: Harpsichord music and records Message-ID: <4181@alice.UUCP> Date: Tue, 20-Aug-85 10:35:33 EDT Article-I.D.: alice.4181 Posted: Tue Aug 20 10:35:33 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 24-Aug-85 01:13:59 EDT References: <1159@teddy.UUCP> Organization: Bell Labs, Murray Hill Lines: 24 > Recordings of Bach harpsichord pieces are somewhat harder to find, strangely > enough. Most of what is available is played by Gustav Leonhardt and the like. > I find that the instruments they chose to be somewhat drier and less full > than the French tradition (Leonhardt uses a Dulken (Flemish) copy, I think) > There is a very good recording of the 6 harpsichord suites available from > the Smithsonian Institute, played by (I think, but could be wrong) Fenner > Douglas. The Smithsonian set is performed by James Weaver; and I agree it's a very good recording. You may also enjoy the recently-issued collections from Archiv. I think they cover just about all of JSB's harpsichord music. There are two boxes, ten records in each. I've seen them for sale at Tower Records at $34.40 a box. The recordings are from various times in the past ten years, and include the WTC played by Kenneth Gilbert and a lot of other stuff played, if I remember right, by Gilbert, Trevor Pinnock, and Huguette Dreyfus. Some of these are now also available on CD, coupled with Ton Koopman's excellent rendition of assorted organ works on a gutsy baroque organ. Huguette Dreyfus has also done a good recording of the Partitas on three CDs on the Denon label.