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Scott Morrison <[log in to unmask]>
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Sat, 23 Sep 2000 07:33:45 -0500
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The late 1980s recordings by harpsichordist Davitt Moroney of three
crowning keyboard works of Bach - the two books of the Well-Tempered
Clavier, the Art of Fugue, and the Musical Offering - are gathered together
in a 7-CD set from Harmonia Mundi, and are now available at Berkshire
Record Outlet for the incredible price of about $21, $3 per disc.  This
collection had been mentioned a year ago, favorably, by Ulvi Yurtsever,
when it was still at full-price.

The performances are sterling.  I'd first come to admire Moroney in his
first William Byrd set probably twenty years ago.  (He's since re-recorded
that music, fairly recently.)

He uses a 1980 harpsichord made by John Phillips.  It has a gentle,
non-nasal tone.

Run, do not walk.  Berkshire Record Outlet is at

   http://www.broinc.com/

Scott Morrison

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