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...BACH: THE WELL-TEMPERED CLAVIER, PART 1 (2 LPs; Archiv). "Clavier" means keyboard, and no one knows whether these preludes and fugues were written for harpsichord, organ or clavichord. Ralph Kirkpatrick is recording them on the clavichord, preferring its subtlety. Infinitely varied within their small compass, like snowflakes, the pieces have a severe fascination when played on the soft, monochromatic instrument. The late Wanda Landowska chose the harpsichord as her clavier, and her performances (RCA Victor) will be preferred by listeners who demand greater contrast and majesty...
...goes on a busman's holiday in Germany and Holland, playing with artistry the twelve surviving baroque organs of Master Builder Arp Schnitger (1648-1719). The tones of Schnitger's organs are exceptionally bright and buoyant, wrong for the romantics but wonderful for the music Biggs plays: Bach (including the Dorian Toccata and Fugue in D Minor) and chorale preludes by the modern Berlin composer Ernst Pepping...
...program will consist of Sonata No. 6 in G Major by J.S. Bach; Sonata in F Minor, Opus 80 by Prokofleff; Sonata in E by Hindemith; and Fantasia in C Major, Opus 159 b Schubert...
...Unearthed. Pre-Bach compositions, Greenberg insists, are "not little delicate museum pieces. This was music of an exciting time, full of violent contrasts." The Tanglewood program presented by Pro Musica ranged from the solemn Lamentations of Jeremiah to the sprightly "hey ding a ding" of It Was a Lover and His Lass, an exquisitely chiseled duologue for recorder and flute, a blatantly comic Tobacco Is Like Love, and a spirited London Street Cries, alive with the calls of street vendors and town criers...
Exotic Wildlife. The problem with pre-Bach music, explains Greenberg, is that "you're never certain exactly what scoring the composer has in mind. All the notes are there, but the composer very rarely put down who was to sing or play them." To the formidable task of determining the tempo, dynamics and instrumentation of the worm-eaten scores, Greenberg brings a composer's skill, a musicologist's interest in research and instinctive good taste. He searches for clues to instrumentation by digging through such obscure miscellanea as the purchasing orders for a 16th-century English town...