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From: ark@alice.UUCP (Andrew Koenig)
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Subject: Re: Harpsichord music and records
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Date: Tue, 20-Aug-85 10:35:33 EDT
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> 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.