Word: clavier
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...works, completed in 1900 (a new, even more complete edition is now under way). But they contained few indications of tempo, dynamics or phrasing, so many publishers continued to issue altered, expanded and "improved" editions. Gounod thought nothing of using the C Major Prelude from The Well-Tempered Clavier as a mere accompaniment to his saccharine melody for Ave Maria...
...told-were pouring forth like gabby world travelers, which indeed they are. Four years after his withdrawal from public concert life, Pianist Gould is still pursuing one of the most remarkable careers in recording history. First, there is his initial installment of Book 2 of The Well-Tempered Clavier, dazzlingly executed, imaginatively shaped, proving more than ever that while Gould's Bach is invariably different from anybody else's, it invariably has its own kind of rightness. Then there are Mozart's first five piano sonatas, which he spins out in enthusiastic, masculine, superclassical style. This performance...
...chaos to produce his searching remembrance of things past. Now Konrad Adenauer is onstage with the first volume of his memoirs, covering the period from 1945, when Germany lay in ruins, to 1953, when the postwar Wirtschaftswunder dawned. Adenauer's instrument, not surprisingly, is a brisk and Bachlike clavier, well tempered by the author's 90 years...
BACH: THE WELL-TEMPERED CLAVIER, BOOK 1 (3 LPs; Columbia). Glenn Gould is now halfway through Bach's magnificent "exercises," performing the first 24 preludes and fugues on the piano. There are times when Gould hams it up, and there are certainly too many of his infamous hums, but he makes the pieces spring to life with bold overall conceptions, marvelous technique and vaulting lines...
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...