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J.S. BACHTHE WELL-TEMPERED CLAVIER, Book 1 (BWV 846-869)KIMIKO ISHIZAKA, PIANO

  • THE OPEN WELL-TEMPERED CLAVIER
  • REVIEWS
  • KIMIKO ISHIZAKA
  • CONCERTS
  • PRELUDES & FUGUES
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  • A gifted and obviously devoted Bachian
    James Oestreich, New York Times
  • She has a very poetic touch, and seems to have a wide variety of colours at her fingertips
    Robert Hugill
  • Ishizaka plays the 24 preludes and fugues with impeccable taste and technique
    Donald Rosenberg, Gramophone Magazine
  • I have never heard "Book 1" done better. You hear Bach with new ears.
    Grego Applegate Edwards
  • The Well-Tempered Clavier, with the notes, for those who truly love music.
Robert Cummings, Classical.net

In his review of Kimiko Ishizaka's recording of J.S. Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1, Robert Cummings heaps on ample praise while comparing Ishizaka directly to Glenn Gould and Sviatoslav Richter. He enumerates many of the individual preludes and fugues as a means of finding specific aspects of Ishizaka's playing to compliment. Here is a fitting sample of his impressions:

"I could thus go on citing further examples of her superior skills, but let me draw your attention to just one more: try the Prelude and Fugue, in B minor, that close the set. Tension builds subtly in the agitated Prelude and is left unresolved. The same unsettled manner remains in the massive Fugue, but here Ishizaka imparts a more animated and tortured sense to the music with an insistent, almost mechanical style that brims with tension."

"elegant, spirited, technically impressive, and ever sensitive to the expressive character of the music"

"Ishizaka subtly employs various shadings of dynamics, uses a fair amount of legato, and phrases the music with a keen sense for Bach's expressive soul."

"A brilliant performance and brilliant set all around!"

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