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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
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beautiful,
By Matthew D Kerr (Princeton, NJ United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Well Tempered Clavier, Part 1 (Audio CD)
I own a few really outstanding recordings of this: among them richter, wanda landowska, friedrich gulda, gould. This is now my favorite. It may actually be more expressive and nuanced than all of the above (with the exception of gulda), while being less mannered. You can hear everything; the clavichord makes it all transparent. This is an incandescent recording.
11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
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Part I of Kirkpatrick's Great Clavichord Performance of Bach,
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This review is from: Well Tempered Clavier, Part 1 (Audio CD)
I've waited a long time to find the first half of Kirkpatrick's Clavichord performance of J. S. Bach's "The Well-Tempered Clavier"; it was surely well worth waiting. Kirkpatrick offers lively, emotionally stirring performances on the clavichord, opening with the familiar bars of the "Ave Maria" in the first brief piece. I concur with a previous reviewer who remaked that this is an incandescent recording. I think it is now my favorite keyboard performance of Bach's music, easily surpassing any I've heard from the likes of Gould or Perahia. The sound quality is exceptional for these vintage recordings, some of which are over forty years old.
9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
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I wore out the grooves on my Archiv copy,
By Werner "Troodon" (Lake Forest, IL United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Well Tempered Clavier, Part 1 (Audio CD)
Kirkpatrick's performance stands apart from all the rest. I owned Archiv 33 1/3 copies of Teil 1 & 2 when at university, and his virtuosity helped me through many a tense night. I survived, but the vinyl eventually failed.The unique sound of the Clavichord (clavier refers generally to all keyboard instruments) presents challenges in presentation which Ralph Kirkpatrick easily masters to create an unparalled sound experience. Bach would be proud.
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