Clavichord recordings you like.

[Mandryka]

Concomitantly I also have listened to Alard's new trio sonatas recording. I think the three sonatas played on clavichord hardly could be bettered. His playing here is well-articulated, intimate and expressive. But also the sonatas played on the harpsichord are relatively successful. The joyful air of the fifth sonata is particularly well captured. And Bach may himself be partly responsible for the somewhat joyless air of the first movement of the first sonata.

Taken as a whole I find Alard's ongoing Bach project to be a mixed bag, but never-the-less most often interesting in one way or the other, for example in his choice of instruments as exemplified in the trio sonatas. This doesn't change the fact that I anytime shall prefer these works played on the organ.

Listening again to the trio sonatas, I would say "serious" rather than "joyless." I've reframed it - I now see it as a strength rather than a weakness!