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Deluxe 2CD set with detailed booklet.
J S BACH: CLAVICHORD WAS OUR FEATURED ALBUM FORJULY 2023
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After his landmark recording of some of Johann Sebastian Bachs most important keyboard music, one of the great Bach interpreters of our time turns his attention to the composers preferred instrument.
The sound of the clavichord is, says Andrs Schiff, an invitation into a new world, a quiet oasis in our noisy, troubled times. Thanks to the clavichord I now play and hear Bach differently. An intimate and personal instrument a most gentle creature, ideal for playing alone it can also be, as Schiff notes, a demanding and unforgiving teacher. On the clavichord we have only our fingers at our disposal, they must create the music with the finest gradations of touch.
The early keyboard works are emphasized here, bringing us closer to the sounds of Bachs day, and the cantabile art of the clavichord. The album opens with theCapriccio sopra la lontananza del fratro dilettissmo,journeys throughInventionsandSinfonias,and concludes with an extraordinary account of theChromatic Fantasia and Fugue.
On this recording, Schiffs first on the clavichord, he plays a replica of a 1743 Specken instrument, built by Belgian craftsman Joris Potvlieghe. The album was recorded in the Kammermusik Saal of Bonns Beethoven-Haus and produced by Manfred Eicher.
ECM4857948 Released 2023
