Word: harpsichordist
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...determination to present music the way it was played in Bach's own day, Erwin Bodky--conductor, harpsichordist, and co-founder of the group--has sacrificed much of the tonal richness which characterizes modern performances. Comparing the group's playing of the opening Triple Concerto with the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra's performance of the same work last May makes this fact obvious. The Collegium, by reducing the number of players from eighty to eight and by substituting a harpsichord for the piano, gave us a rendition which, although atmospheric, did not even come close to the Orchestra's full-bodied...
...festival in Prades (TIME, Jan. 30, et seg.), Columbia Records began setting the stage to record it. Among other things, canny Columbia saw to it that only Columbia (or entirely unaffiliated) artists were invited to take part. This guaranteed some fine artists, but excluded such notable Bach interpreters as Harpsichordist Wanda Landowska, who happens to make records for Victor...
Bach: Well-Tempered Clavier (Wanda Landowska, harpsichord; Victor, 2 sides LP). The second installment (Preludes and Fugues 9-16) of 71-year-old Harpsichordist Landowska's definitive "last will and testament" (TIME, June 20, 1949). Recording: excellent...
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Daniel Pinkham, harpsichordist for the Boston Symphony, and Gerald Goguen, clarion trumpeter, will handle the special instrumentation called for by Bach...