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Bach, J S - The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1
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Instrumental » Piano Solos
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Hewitt…take full advantage of the piano's potential, including its middle (sostenuto) pedal; for that mighty tonic pedal below the final harmonies of Fugue in A minor. Her quiet sustained... —
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2009, Editor's Choice
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more like an than a rejection of his youthful preoccupations...Schiff's Bach sings and dances, and has a clarity derived from a mesmerising touch and an aversion to the sustain pedal. The crucial... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 17th December 2012
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Wary as I am of superlatives, I can claim without hesitation that Ewa Pobłocka’s Well-Tempered Clavier Book 1 encompasses some of the greatest and most fulfilling Bach pianism on record...Her... —
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2019, Recording of the Month
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Time and again you are left to admire the way he never burdens Bach's transparency and profundity with a portentous or heavy air of significance. Touchingly and admirably, he always allows... —
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BBC Music Magazine, May 2006, Disc of the month
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The harpsichord is a particular delight, a modest instrument, with only two eight-foot manuals. Built by Christian Vater and preserved in Nuremberg, it has a precise, silvery tone, mixed with... —
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There are myriad good things to say about this album...Pilsan, at only 26 years old, is already a fine communicator of Bach’s rhetoric. —
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2021
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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His Bach is resolutely head-driven - and it's curious. His preeminently ascetic use of the sustaining pedal creates clarity tinged with dryness, yet he's prone to Romantically portentous rallentandos. —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 18th August 2014
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International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Baroque Instrumental
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