Bob van Asperen is never going to set the world on fire. First, of course, he is a classical musician. Second, he is a harpsichordist. Third, he specializes in historically informed performance practices. Fifth and most importantly, van Asperen, for all the brilliance of his technique and the depth of his performances, is no firebrand. He is a ...
You can be sure that infants aren't fussy about their classical collections, but grownups may feel that Bach for My Baby is a bit much to give to their offspring, considering the sophistication of the performances, the substantial length of the selections, and the seriousness of the music. Assembled from EMI's back catalog, dating between 1965 and ...
Gustav Leonhardt has recorded Bach's Concertos for 2 harpsichords, BWV 1060-1062, twice: first in the early '70s with harpsichordist Eduard Muller on Telefunken and then again 20 years later with harpsichordist Bob van Asperen. The earlier recording was the first complete recording of the work on period instruments and in a historically informed ...
Here once more are Dutch harpsichordist Bob van Asperen's early '90s recordings of the complete solo harpsichord concertos of J.S. Bach. Accompanied by the one-player-to-a-part Melante Amsterdam ensemble and recorded by Virgin, these were superb performances in their time and they still sound superb in this 2008 two-disc Virgin Veritas set. ...
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