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The Goldbergs<\/p>\n
This release concludes Ketil Haugsand\u2019s recordings of all Bach\u2019s \u201cClavier\u00fcbung\u201d on harpsichord for Simax Classics. The two earlier releases became reference recordings over-night, and Goldberg really is the jewel of the crown. As always Haugsand\u2019s interpretation is no scratching the surface, but taking you through to the deeper layers of this music in breathing and singing phrases, along the map drawn up by Bach.<\/p>\n
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The title alone is enough to make the heart beat a little faster. It is not coincidental that many music lovers have just this work as a centre in their private musical universe, a piece they return to again and again, always to find something new. A set of variations which stretches the limits; old man Bach with the powers to make the variation-form a display of pure music.<\/p>\n
Haugsand is professor of harpsichord at the Hochschule f\u00fcr Musik in Cologne, and is regarded as one of the great harpsichordists and Early Music personalities of today. The Norwegian born musician studied with Gustav Leonhardt at the Amsterdam Conservatory, where he was awarded the coveted \u2018Prix d\u2019Excellence\u2019 in 1975. Later he was a prize winner at international harpsichord competitions in Paris and Bruges<\/p>\n
Although himself placed right in the middle today\u2019s constant stream of newly found sources, historically informed performance practice ideologies and theories, Haugsand reminds us that Bach wrote these works for \u201cthe spiritual fulfilment of music lovers\u201d
\n– That leaves me, the music lover, free to relish in the perfect beauty of these works, fully enjoying an extremely rich and dynamic espressivo; honing some hair-raising technical challenges, or simply having fun (albeit of a tricky kind) in playing them with good conscience, even if words like \u201cbeauty,\u201d \u201cenjoyment\u201d and \u201csimple fun\u201d represent a rather uncommon lingo in the context of \u201chistorical evidence\u201d or \u201cfindings in sources\u201d..<\/p>\n
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