Bach on the harpsichord, lute-harpsichord, clavichord

[AnotherSpin]

is it this? https://open.qobuz.com/album/bf4z38yfccc9b

[prémont]

is it this? https://open.qobuz.com/album/bf4z38yfccc9b

Yes, this is their first recording (from 1963) according to the cover.

So here is a Youtube link to the 1963 recording:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jWdx6Mt51g&list=PL8mrHndLac0pEFtfW-iYos4z0V4JGhOZC

[AnotherSpin]

This picture on YouTube definitely looks familiar — I most likely had this vinyl back in the '70s.

[prémont]

This picture on YouTube definitely looks familiar — I most likely had this vinyl back in the '70s.

The Supraphon LPs I acquired 1964 had the same cover as your Qobus link above. I don't know about the YouTube photo.

At the Bach.cantatas webpage you can read about their four different recordings of these sonatas.

[AnotherSpin]

The Supraphon LPs I acquired 1964 had the same cover as your Qobus link above. I don't know about the YouTube photo.

At the Bach.cantatas webpage you can read about their four different recordings of these sonatas.

You're absolutely right. The photo on YouTube is taken from a different album featuring Handel's music. Here's the full-size photo from Discogs below. I most likely bought this vinyl many years ago, which is why the image looked instantly familiar.

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Have you heard Malcolm's recording of Bach's Chromatic fantasy and fugue (the mono recording - Decca- from the mid 1950es)?

I think Kirkpatrick may sometimes sound a bit nervous - like e.g. Michel Chapuis in his Bach organ integral. But Kirkpatrick has got a lot of rhytmical energy and  colorfullness, which fascinates me.

Picht-Axenfeld is far too old style to me. Her latest Bach recordings (from about 1980) sound surprisingly more old style than Isolde Ahlgrimm's recordings from 1952. Only the recorded sound is of course better.

Zuzana Růžičková's complete Bach set for Erato seems to be OOP, but it can - as so much else - be had as lossless download from Presto.

https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/8179495--js-bach-the-complete-keyboard-works

I love Malcolm's Chromatic fantasy and fugue. Sounds gorgeous. I always liked Walcha's harpsichord, but I remember that several members here were not enthusiastic about the sound. As for Walcha's execution, I like it most of the time, but he's fast on some pieces. Probably it's just my personal preference. I will get the digital box of ZR.

[Mandryka]

I think the embellishments Alard uses on the trio sonatas here are really fine - basically they work well on a single pedal harpsichord/clavichord. A really significant recording IMO. His organ recording of these sonatas was excellent - but this is excellentissimus.