Mahan Esfahani's extremely ambitious project to record the complete keyboard works of Bach for Hyperion reaches its peak with the Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1: a rare opportunity to hear it as it was conceived. Bach indeed composed it with a harpsichord or clavichord in mind, having only encountered the sound of a modern piano at the end of his life. Recorded on a German two-manual harpsichord built by Huw Saunders and based on an instrument that supposedly belonged to Bach.
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