Bach: Complete Partitas For Harpsichord
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Free Music Notes for Bach: Complete Partitas For Harpsichord
Free Music Review: With my best wishes !
Hit: 5 Stars
If you enjoy listening Harpsichord the real ''baroque'' way this is the CD to acquire. The unique sound of the older Harpsichord played by Blandine Verlet transforms the experience into a marvelous journey in time.
Cheers !
Free Music Review: Simply Awful!
Hit: 1 Stars
I've bought 200+ CD's over the years, and this is the only CD in my collection that I cannot listen to. There is a rythmic instability in the playing that is atrocious. I've learnt a number of these partitas, heard numerous recordings of them, and cannot fathom why this performer tries to contort the rhythms as she does. Obviously as a musician one must decide when to bend the rhythm a little - a la Casals or other great Bach interpreters, but in this recording the distortions are that bad that the music has completely lost its meaning and continuity.
Listen to the opening line of the first partita before buying this CD - a simple phrase is completely distorted. Also, be sure to listen to the gigue of this same first partita - it sounds like a child practicing! Listen to Richard Goode or numerous others play this gigue and you'll wonder how this CD was ever released.
Free Music Review: Bach played with astonishing artistry and virtuosity.
Hit: 5 Stars
Virgil Thomson once described a recital of Wanda Landowska playing Bach on the harpsichord as being "as stimulating as a needle shower." Well, the same applies to another female master of the harpsichord, Blandine Verlet, who here performs Bach's "Partitas," among the most intricate, demanding works ever composed for the keyboard, with a mixture of white-knuckled control and breathtaking expression heard only in the performances of people who are in absolute control of their instruments, on every level. And Verlet is indeed, since the death of Landowska, sans peer as an interpreter of Bach on the harpsichord. This is music of surpassing sublimity, performed with grace, wit (yes, wit), passion and even restraint by a truly astounding musician. Bach performed to perfection--could there be a better reason to buy this CD?