The Harmonious Blacksmith: Favourite Harpischord Pieces
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Composer: Johann Sebastian BachComposer: Claude-Beninge Balbastre
Composer: Francois Couperin
Composer: Louis-Claude Daquin
Composer: Joseph-Hector Fiocco
Composer: Johann Caspar Ferdinand Fischer
Composer: George Frederick Handel
Composer: Jean-Philippe Rameau
Composer: Domenico Scarlatti
Performer: Trevor Pinnock
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1990-10-25
Music Label: Polygram Records
Music reviews of The Harmonious Blacksmith: Favourite Harpischord Pieces
Music Review: Pinnock cracker
Rating: 5 Stars
This is still one of the finest harpsichord recordings you can buy as an introduction to the harpsichord. In 1984 this was one of the first recordings that was released on cd instead vinyl (perhaps that was the reason it was recorded all the way in Japan?). Great instrument (David Way 1983 after Hemsch), wonderful player and a repertoire that is broad and very representative for the very best harpsichord compositions of the Baroque era. The Gavotte avec 6 Doubles by Rameau, the Passacaglia in d minor by Fischer and the Italian Concerto by J.S. Bach are hard to overlook. I would have exchanged the two D. Scarlatti sonatas (K.380 and 381) for any piece of Pachelbel's Hexachordum Apollinis and the lacking of any virginalist (Byrd!) is rather painful but there is a lot to enjoy.
General CDs
- Styles > Classical
- Ballets & Dances > Gavottes
- Featured Composers, A-Z > ( B ) > Bach, Johann Sebastian
- Bolcom, William
- ( C ) > Couperin, Fran?ois
- ( R ) > Rameau, Jean Philippe
- ( S ) > Scarlatti, Domenico
- Featured Performers, A-Z > ( P ) > Pinnock, Trevor
- Forms & Genres > Sonatas > Sonatinas
- Suites
- Variations > Passacaglias
- Historical Periods > Baroque (c.1600-1750) > General
- Bach, Johann Sebastian - Works by J.S. Bach
- Classical - Featured Composers, A-Z - ( C ) - Couperin, Fran?ois - General
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