Christophe Rousset - Johann Sebastian Bach: Partitas, BWV 825-830 (1993)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 1.0 Gb | Total time: 154:11 | Scans included
Classical | Label: L'oiseau Lyre | 440 217-2 | Recorded: 1992
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 1.0 Gb | Total time: 154:11 | Scans included
Classical | Label: L'oiseau Lyre | 440 217-2 | Recorded: 1992
Recent issues of the Bach partitas on the harpsichord have provoked reservations about the quality of the recordings: the set by Kenneth Gilbert so uncomfortably close to the microphone as to pick up distracting action noise from the instrument, Trevor Pinnock's somewhat fuzzy, Scott Ross's too reverberant to be ideal. So perhaps I may start by commending the admirably warm but clean and natural sound secured by the producer (Chris Sayers)—even in a church (not far from Toulouse)—of the very fine Hemsch harpsichord of 1751 that Rousset has used before.