Fantasias: Colin Tilney, clavichord

J. S. Bach: Chromatic Fantasia and Fugue in d
C.P.E. Bach: Fantasia in c, Fantasia in C
W. F. Bach: Fantasia in d
C.P.E. Bach: Fantasia in C
Mozart: Fantasia in d

Tilney took Ralph Kirkpatrick's advocacy for obsolete instruments one step further by promoting the use of original instruments. This recording, from 1976, was performed on a clavichord from 1742 in the collection of the Museum für Hamburgische Geschichte. The program is interesting in that it gives representative examples of a loose compositional form from its inception in the Baroque to the Classical.

Fantasias for clavichord
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The Well-Tempered Clavichord, Ralph Kirkpatrick

Fourteen preludes and fugues from the Well-Tempered Clavier

Before Kirkpatrick, the Well-Tempered Clavier was performed on Bösendorfer pianos and on harpsichords with thirty-two-foot registers. Ralph's clavichord caught everyone off guard - even his engineers didn't understand how to record it. The sound of the nine pieces from Book One recorded in 1961 is different from that of the five pieces from Book Two recorded in 1969 and yet the microphones were jammed next to the tangents during both sessions. Kirkpatrick held up well under that scrutiny.

The Well-Tempered Clavichord
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