Clavichord recordings you like.

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premont

Quote from: milk on October 01, 2020, 02:46:52 AM
I didn't like those John Paul recordings when I first heard them but I listened to them recently and thought they were better than I'd thought.

Some years ago I purchased four John Paul CDs with different Bach suites and partitas and listened several times to these. My impression was invariably the same, finding his playing rough and unrefined. The contrast to Rübsam's later released recordings is striking. However I haven't parted with the John Paul recordings, maybe because I intended to give them another try.
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Quote from: (: premont :) on October 01, 2020, 03:32:18 AM
Some years ago I purchased four John Paul CDs with different Bach suites and partitas and listened several times to these. My impression was invariably the same, finding his playing rough and unrefined. The contrast to Rübsam's later released recordings is striking. However I haven't parted with the John Paul recordings, maybe because I intended to give them another try.
It does have a rough quality. I like the instrument he plays which sounds much more uneven than Rubsam's. Of course Rubsam's playing is another world entirely. I didn't like them a few years ago but the other day I gave them a listen. 
ETA: Paul's series doesn't seem to have completed either. This label tends to cut projects off?

Mandryka

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Just found this by accident though it seems to have been around for a year or more - Waldner's always exceptional IMO and this is no exception (sorry! Is that a pleonasm?) Listening with great pleasure to a French Suite, or rather 818a,  now.
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mabuse

Quote from: Mandryka on June 13, 2021, 10:06:04 AM


Just found this by accident though it seems to have been around for a year or more - Waldner's always exceptional IMO and this is no exception (sorry! Is that a pleonasm?) Listening with great pleasure to a French Suite, or rather 818a,  now.

Thanks so much for reporting this, Mandryka!  :)

I ordered the 2 cds on the label's website:
https://organroxx.com/en_US/shop/category/cds-chamber-music-organroxx-38

mabuse

Quote from: Mandryka on August 04, 2018, 11:44:10 PM
Tsalka's recording is sensual, spontaneous, and emotional. It's a hoot! One has the impression of a young virtuoso relishing entertaining his audience with a lively bit of music. He uses two clavichords, both characterful, colourful and twangy, played with gusto.

:)

This record had me very enthusiastic !




mabuse

In a different genre, I also really enjoyed this old recording of Thurston Dart that Eloquence reissued last year:

https://www.eloquenceclassics.com/releases/bach-french-suites/

With fast tempos and no repeat, everything fits on one CD in just 52 minutes!

Mandryka

Quote from: mabuse on June 16, 2021, 04:25:46 AM
In a different genre, I also really enjoyed this old recording of Thurston Dart that Eloquence reissued last year:

https://www.eloquenceclassics.com/releases/bach-french-suites/

With fast tempos and no repeat, everything fits on one CD in just 52 minutes!

Try his Froberger.
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mabuse

About Froberger, it is especially this recording that I would like to come back to:
 
Froberger : Complete Fantasias and Canzonas
Terence Charlston, clavichord
Divine Art (2020)
https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_kbkYMq_O49O-MQBXhyeep9t7VNKQA5No4

The very stripped down music is played with great sensitivity ...
I'll get the CD.

mabuse

Quote from: Scarpia on October 25, 2010, 11:15:31 AM
Here's an interesting thing that I used to have on vinyl.


Oscar Peterson playing clavichord !!!

I love it  8)
https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_lD535pKI6_3QCNxyk_e1gl6D1KiYCM_8U

liner notes :
« No other version of the music from Porgy and Bess casts a spell like the one created here by Oscar Peterson and Joe Pass. Enchanted by the tonal qualities of the clavichord, a predecessor of the piano, Peterson determined to use it as a jazz instrument.
To balance and complement the sound of the clavichord, he enlisted his frequent colleague Joe Pass, who set aside his amplifier to play acoustic guitar. As repertoire, Peterson chose Gershwin's 20th century opera and crafted arrangements that make it seem as if the music had been composed for clavichord and guitar. The result is a chamber music recording of timelessness and charm. »


Mandryka

Quote from: mabuse on June 17, 2021, 11:27:50 AM
About Froberger, it is especially this recording that I would like to come back to:
 
Froberger : Complete Fantasias and Canzonas
Terence Charlston, clavichord
Divine Art (2020)
https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_kbkYMq_O49O-MQBXhyeep9t7VNKQA5No4

The very stripped down music is played with great sensitivity ...
I'll get the CD.

I agree totally, I think it's a tremendous recording.
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Mandryka

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https://www.youtube.com/v/38hgCCoGxgE&ab_channel=NetherlandsBachSociety


Menno van Delft playing the chromatic fantasy and fugue on a clavichord. If you'd have asked me I'd have said that this shouldn't work because the music demands the brilliance of a harpsichord, like the toccata of the 6th partita. But I think they've cheated by recording the clavichord closely -- so it sounds more brilliant than the recording of the Partitas he made.


QuoteAn exceptional performance!
I'm eager to know how this was recorded? Was the sound amplified during the performance too? I know how quiet the sound of a clavichord is. I remember doing a clavichord course 2 years ago and you can barely hear it from a distance of 10+ meters

In this video he seems to be using the same instrument, and when he plays (about 2 and a half minutes in)  it it sounds more natural, less amplified

https://www.youtube.com/v/NrKyzvMEKxE&ab_channel=NetherlandsBachSociety


Anyway, he's a good musician I think and so worth hearing.
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milk

Quote from: Mandryka on July 17, 2021, 07:52:10 AM
https://www.youtube.com/v/38hgCCoGxgE&ab_channel=NetherlandsBachSociety


Menno van Delft playing the chromatic fantasy and fugue on a clavichord. If you'd have asked me I'd have said that this shouldn't work because the music demands the brilliance of a harpsichord, like the toccata of the 6th partita. But I think they've cheated by recording the clavichord closely -- so it sounds more brilliant than the recording of the Partitas he made.

Anyway, he's a good musician I think and so worth hearing.
Robert Hill has a recording of this that I absolutely loved. It's hard for me to find it though because he put out a bunch of compilations of sort-of non-standard Bach keyboard music with particular titles. But I remember it being bright and hallucinogenic.

Mandryka

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premont

Quote from: Mandryka on July 29, 2022, 04:37:10 AM
A Kirkpatrick Bach clavichord recording I wasn't aware of

https://open.spotify.com/album/0FMLoTOnNYVe45kJKhCtQU?highlight=spotify:track:5ksDXgjgqKq0SBmIo0EPGM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSKQWiolNhE&ab_channel=RalphKirkpatrick-Topic
https://play.qobuz.com/album/3610159299377

In the 1960es he recorded a number of Bach keyboard pieces on clavichord for Archiv. Of course WTC I and II, but also the inventions and sinfonias, the suites BWV 818, 819 and most of the small preludes from WF Bach's clavierbuchlein and even the applicatio among them.
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Features the big bad chaconne on a clavichord, which seems a reasonable thing to do.
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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rOEXQ1IpiKY

Hakkinen plays a Haydn sonata - I like it, I will have to check his Haydn CD.
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A Frescobaldi toccata! Who would've thunk it? -- Another wonderful Jap musician -- Kanji Daito.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5MnWBNgvvE&ab_channel=KanjiDaito%E5%A4%A7%E8%97%A4%E8%8E%9E%E7%88%BE
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Mandryka

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Quote from: mabuse on June 17, 2021, 11:27:50 AMAbout Froberger, it is especially this recording that I would like to come back to:
 
Froberger : Complete Fantasias and Canzonas
Terence Charlston, clavichord
Divine Art (2020)
https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_kbkYMq_O49O-MQBXhyeep9t7VNKQA5No4

The very stripped down music is played with great sensitivity ...
I'll get the CD.


It's very good - I'm listening to the canzonas tonight and it's very good!  And as was the case with Joseph Payne's Bull Pavans - having all the Froberger Canzonas collected together like this reveals a fabulous cycle. For some reason (which I'll check tomorrow) Asperen didn't present then like that. Neither did Egarr.
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Mandryka

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More Kanji Daito -- this kid's the biz until you start to think about it. When you do you realise that he's playing clavichord like a harpsichord -- no real use of dynamics for example, or vibrato, and the liaisons between the notes is harpsichord like. But still, nice harpsichord performances using a clavichord.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1tsCOUBu2I&list=PLhcJddblbx4G2c4RDkWO_enPD-30JQoAs&index=16&ab_channel=KanjiDaito%E5%A4%A7%E8%97%A4%E8%8E%9E%E7%88%BE

Louis Couperin prelude -- nice to get a glimpse of that score!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24oo5A4-Fd0&list=PLhcJddblbx4G2c4RDkWO_enPD-30JQoAs&index=7&ab_channel=KanjiDaito%E5%A4%A7%E8%97%A4%E8%8E%9E%E7%88%BE

Froberger Toccata


Here's Siegbert Rampe playing Froberger on clavichord -- I think he's more connected to the instrument's potential.


https://open.spotify.com/track/39bG8QUv2IHPk3DfZ6QhAk?si=e5d336e20dae438f
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