Customer Reviews

Puyana Plays Bach

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"Great" is an over-used word, but I have no hesitation about using it three times in the title of this review.

Puyana's performances here are an impeccable combination of authentic performance style, energy, and thoughtful phrasing. The pieces themselves are wonderful, and it is likely that at least one of them will be new to the listener. The sound itself, a product of the early days of stereo recording, is crystal clear, and the limitations in dynamic range inherent in analog recording are not as evident in a harpsichord recording as they might be elsewhere.

This would be one of my favorite CDs at premium price; the fact that it is a mid-priced CD makes it a great bargain, as well.

Marvelous Bach - full-blooded renditions of some of his best works for harpsichord. Puyana's scholarship is evident, but there's no 'proper' tinkling here. Some may find these recordings a bit over the top, but not me. Grab it before Universal trashes it, as it has done with Puyana's Soler and Couperin (the Soler is possibly the most exciting harpsichord recording ever made). Highly recommended.

Born in Bogota, Colombia, Raphael Puyana has been a major player in the world of harpsichords for a long time now. He was a student of Wanda Landowska, and his crisp, scintillating performances really grab the ear.
I tried to get this particular recording from another website and they were unable to get a copy for me. Then I tried Amazon, and they got it to me right away. And to think I might have missed out hearing these brilliant renditions of Bach if I had not tried to find it here.

Rafael Puyana displays the variety of tones that are possible with the harpsichord. He is joined by Genoveva Galvez on the Concerto a Duoi Cembali Concertati and the richness of sound will blow the roof off. I wish the liner notes listed the instruments that Puyana played. It sounds as if he playing a different instrument on the Johann Christian work. I recommend this CD for anyone who loves the harpsichord.

Certainly one of the best harpsichord collections ever made-energetic, exciting, flawless. I cannot understand why Puyana is not more well known.

I listened to this album when I was a kid. I loved it then, and I love it now. It is simply the best harpsichord music you'll ever find. (It was out of print and impossible to find for the longest time.) The pieces by two of the Bach sons -- Johann Christian and Wilhelm Friedrich -- are almost never performed. LISTEN AND ENJOY!!!

I don't know this particular recording yet - I'm ordering it now....I know many recordings of Puyana and I've heard him live at the Met Mus of Art in Bach Eng Suites and Scarl. Sonatas. - amazing!!!! Besides Landowska and some Valenti recordings, Puyana is my GODHARPSICHORDIST!!!!!! Where is he??!!! Wht does he not perform more in the USA??!! Please, someone, tell me?????!!!!!!