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All four works offered here are among Bach’s most popular and frequently recorded keyboard compositions. Though Pieter-Jan Belder faces plenty of competition, even at Brilliant
It’s impossible today to listen to repertoire masterworks without filing–even unwillingly–through one’s mental catalogue of competing recordings and interpretations. Even the most cursory glance at
This live May 31, 1964 concert gives us “old Klemp” at his redoubtable best. Indeed, it’s hard to believe that Barbirolli’s disgusting Mahler recordings with
Cellist Phoebe Carrai performed with period-instrument ensemble Musica Antiqua Köln from 1983 to 1993, arguably the group’s eclectic heyday. Carrai’s spirit of adventure apparently hasn’t
Bach’s Goldberg Variations have played a central role in harpsichordist Pierre Hantai’s musical life since his early youth. At 28 he recorded the work for
Helmut Walcha’s sober, unselfregarding, and uncommonly clear Bach interpretations dominated the German organ school of the 1950s and ’60s, mirroring Otto Klemperer’s similar hold over
All three composers featured on Tatiana Nikolayeva’s August 18, 1987 Salzburg Festival recital were central to this pianist’s repertoire in concert and on disc. Once
Bach’s Sonatas and Partitas for solo violin work rather well on the guitar or lute, as Paul Galbraith’s recent guitar versions for Delos have demonstrated.
Originally issued on four single CDs, Linn Records bundles lutenist Nigel North’s transcriptions of the Bach unaccompanied violin and cello works together in a specially
These are excellent, modern-instrument performances flavored by a fine sense of period style. The St. Luke’s Chamber Ensemble boasts an impressive roster of talent, and
