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from notes by Angela Hewitt © 2001
Bach: Angela Hewitt plays Bach Angela Hewitt’s acclaimed recordings of Bach on the piano have received the highest critical acclaim and found their way into thousands of homes, selling nearly 400,000 copies since her recording of the Inventions burst onto the scene in 1994. Now ...» More |
Bach: Clavier-Übung III Jeremy Filsell (organ), The Saint Thomas Choir of Men and Boys, Fifth Avenue, New York, Jeremy Filsell (conductor) Comprising twenty-one chorale preludes as well as the four duets, and opening and closing with the mighty 'St Anne' Prelude and Fugue, the third book of Bach's 'Clavier-Übung' is so much more than its somewhat prosaic title ('Keyboard Practice') m ...» More |
Bach: Italian Concerto & French Overture A second volume of Lucy Carolan's recordings of Bach's keyboard music, including unique and constrasted pieces such as the Italian Concerto and the French Overture.» More |
Bach: Italian Concerto & French Overture ‘Hewitt remains today's finest exponent of Bach's keyboard music’ (Gramophone) ‘One of the most convincing Bach pianists at the present time. These performances rate highly in my league table and deserve ‘benchmark’ status’ (BBC ...» More |
Bach: Italian Concerto & French Overture Mahan Esfahani again highlights the radicalism, virtuosity and sheer joyousness of all the works recorded here.» More |
Bach: Organ Miniatures ‘Just as, in my youth, I almost preferred to lick the scrapings from the bowls in which my mother had prepared cakes than to savout the finished produ ... ‘An attractive way of gathering up some of Bach's less obvious masterpieces, and they are all splendidly played, and recorded on a fine Swiss organ’ ( ...» More |
Bach: The Complete Organ Works ‘Let me say without hesitation that Herrick’s performances are models of clarity, accuracy, precision and musicality … this is a complete Bach th ... ‘Herrick is one of the few organists who does justice to these difficult, elusive pieces … What a singular joy to hear the organ played with such ...» More |
Bach: The Complete Organ Works, Vol. 14 This album presents the complete Clavierübung III of 1739. In many ways the crowning achievement of his organ works, Bach's compositional ingenuity is here unleashed on twenty-one Lutheran chorales in the first collection he prepared for publicati ...» More |