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Kenneth Gilbert - Johann Sebastian Bach: Les Suites Françaises (1992)

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Kenneth Gilbert - Johann Sebastian Bach: Les Suites Françaises (1992)

Kenneth Gilbert - Johann Sebastian Bach: Les Suites Françaises (1992)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 629 Mb | Total time: 44:54+50:11 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Harmonia Mundi | # HMC 90437.38 | Recorded: 1975

Kenneth Gilbert has been a leading early music keyboard specialist for decades. His 1975 recording of the French Suites represents "Basic Bach" in the best sense: no frills or intervention, just a respectful adherence to the music in order to convey the emotional content. With unerring accuracy, Gilbert strikes to the essence of each movement. Given exceptional sonics for the time, this is a version that most folks should find highly satisfying. Essentially, Gilbert is a most reliable guide into Bach's sound-world.

Kenneth Gilbert - Johann Sebastian Bach: Capriccio, Prelude & Fugue, Aria, Toccatas (1993)

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Kenneth Gilbert - Johann Sebastian Bach: Capriccio, Prelude & Fugue, Aria, Toccatas (1993)

Kenneth Gilbert - Johann Sebastian Bach: Capriccio, Prelude & Fugue, Aria, Toccatas (1993)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 525 Mb | Total time: 69:37 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Archiv Produktion | # 437 555-2 | Recorded: 1992

Bach had written all the music on this disc by his early thirties, and it’s immediately striking for its spontaneity and expansiveness compared with the terse craftsmanship of his later years. Kenneth Gilbert is a thoroughly persuasive advocate, binding together the sectional toccatas and sustaining momentum through the long, potentially rambling, fugues. A high spot is the C minor Toccata with a final fugue so long that its pulse becomes hypnotic: you simply never want it to end.

Kenneth Gilbert - Johann Sebastian Bach: Kleine Praludien (1986)

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Kenneth Gilbert - Johann Sebastian Bach: Kleine Praludien (1986)

Kenneth Gilbert - Johann Sebastian Bach: Kleine Präludien (1986)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 386 Mb | Total time: 55:34 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Archiv Produktion | # 419 426-2 | Recorded: 1984

Everyone who has sat at a piano stool at a tender age will find old friends amongst the pieces comprising this delightful anthology. Kenneth Gilbert has arranged his programme in four parts. First he plays the eight Preludes, BWV924-31, of the Clavier-Buchlein which Bach compiled in 1720 for his eldest son, Wilhelm Friedemann, then aged ten; he follows these with the Six Little Preludes, BWV933-8, and five further Preludes, BWV939-43. A sixth in C minor, BWV999, is also included but was evidently intended for lute.

Kenneth Gilbert - Johann Sebastian Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I (1984) 2CD [Reissue 2003]

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Kenneth Gilbert - Johann Sebastian Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I (1984) 2CD [Reissue 2003]

Kenneth Gilbert - J.S. Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I (1984) 2CD [Reissue 2003]
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 748 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 256 Mb | Scans included
Genre: Classical | Label: Archiv Produktion | # 474 221-2 | Time: 01:51:00

Although not quite at the level of profundity of his teacher Gustav Leonhardt's recording, Kenneth Gilbert's 1983 recording of Book 1 of Bach's The Well-Tempered Clavier does have a style and polish that Leonhardt's too often lacked. Thus, while Leonhardt goes further into some of the minor-key fugues to find intellectual and spiritual depths that Gilbert does not plumb, Gilbert's playing is so much more elegant and graceful than Leonhardt's that it is difficult to choose between them. For listeners who approach The Well-Tempered Clavier as a volume of virtuoso works whose success depends on the effortless refinement of the player, the Gilbert, with its superbly remastered sound, will be the one to get. For listeners who approach The Well-Tempered Clavier as a volume of prayers written as preludes and fugues, the Leonhardt will be preferable. Both are superb and both belong in any Bach collection.

Kenneth Gilbert - Johann Sebastian Bach: Die Kunst der Fuge (1989)

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Kenneth Gilbert - Johann Sebastian Bach: Die Kunst der Fuge (1989)

Kenneth Gilbert - Johann Sebastian Bach: Art of the Fugue (1989)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 410 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 142 Mb | Scans included
Genre: Classical | Label: Archiv Produktion | # 427 673-2 | Time: 00:58:41

The Art of Fugue or 'complete practical fugal work', as C. P. E. Bach described his father's giant contrapuntal achievement, is well represented in the current recording catalogue. The approaches to it vary considerably with performances on solo keyboard—harpsichord and organ—and mixed ensembles with markedly different shades of instrument colour. Varied too, is the sequence in which the performers play the fugal parts which comprise the whole. Some complete the final fugue, some do not; some find a place for all the pieces included in the posthumous original edition of 1751, others have given reasons for omitting those which seem not to play a directly relevant part in Bach's scheme. Kenneth Gilbert leads us down another fascinating path his performance on a solo harpsichord follows not the 1751 printed edition but Bach's own autograph material differing from the other both in content and layout.

Kenneth Gilbert - François Couperin: Premier Livre de Clavecin (1989)

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Kenneth Gilbert - François Couperin: Premier Livre de Clavecin (1989)

Kenneth Gilbert - François Couperin: Premier Livre de Clavecin (1989)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 1.18 Gb | Total time: 70:23+62:17+58:50 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Harmonia Mundi | # HMA 190351.53 | Recorded: 1970

Kenneth Gilbert’s complete recording of François Couperin’s Pièces de clavecin in 1970 was much more than a pioneering venture; he offered interpretations as virtuosic as they were elegant – and on a historical harpsichord. This first volume, devoted to the first three Ordres of the Premier Livre, conveys the infinite nobility of the immediately recognisable language forged by the most poetic French composer of the Grand Siècle. A thrilling step back in time with this great artist, who was to exert considerable influence on an entire generation of harpsichordists that followed.

Kenneth Gilbert - Johann Sebastian Bach: The Two-Part And Three-Part Inventions (Inventionen & Sinfonien) (1985) [Re-Up]

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Kenneth Gilbert - Johann Sebastian Bach: The Two-Part And Three-Part Inventions (Inventionen & Sinfonien) (1985) [Re-Up]

Kenneth Gilbert - J.S. Bach: The Two-Part And Three-Part Inventions (1985)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 362 Mb | Scans included | Time: 00:50:54
Genre: Classical | Label: Archiv Produktion (DG) | # 415 112-2

This is a superb recording of the Two-Part and Sinfonias (Three-Part Inventions) of Johann Sebastian Bach. Kenneth Gilbert is a wonderful interpreter of Bach's keyboard music and in this recording plays an instrument made in 1671 by Jan Couchet that was subsequently enlarged in 1778. The Two-Part Inventions and Sinfonias consist of 15 parts; they were written as technical exercises and as composition demonstration pieces originally for his son Wilhelm Friedemann. The various pieces were probably written separately and were gathered together by Bach in major/minor key sequence and published in 1723. The recording is clear and well balanced. Kenneth Gilbert plays beautifully; the music is lively without being ostentatious.

Kenneth Gilbert - Johann Sebastian Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book II (1984) 2CDs, Reissue 2003[Re-Up]

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Kenneth Gilbert - Johann Sebastian Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book II (1984) 2CDs, Reissue 2003[Re-Up]

Kenneth Gilbert - J.S. Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book II (1984) 2CDs, Reissue 2003
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 987 Mb | Scans included | Time: 02:24:50
Genre: Classical | Label: Archiv Produktion | # 474 546-2

Kenneth Gilbert's vital rhythmic sense and love of refinement are qualities which can be strongly felt throughout this set.

Kenneth Gilbert - Johann Sebastian Bach: Partiten / Partitas - Clavierübung I (1985)

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Kenneth Gilbert - Johann Sebastian Bach: Partiten / Partitas - Clavierübung I (1985)

Kenneth Gilbert - Johann Sebastian Bach: Partiten / Partitas - Clavierübung I (1985)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 978 Mb | Total time: 71:57+72:52 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Harmonia Mundi | # HMC 901144.45 | Recorded: 1984, 1985

The publication of the Partitas led to some ferment among music lovers in Germany. Some praised the works, others criticised them, but always in terms which suggest that they represented a turning point in harpsichord composition. Following the lead of the theoretician Johann Mattheson, the critics' principal complaint was the extreme technical demands, and the complexity of writing. In his biography of Bach, Johann Nikolaus Forkel writes of the Partitas: »One has hitherto seldom seen or heard harpsichord compositions of such excellence. He who learned to play some of these pieces well, was able to do well with them in the world; and even in our time a young artist can gain honour with them - brilliant, pleasing, expressive, and constantly fresh as they are.«

Kenneth Gilbert - Johann Sebastian Bach: Goldberg Variations (1999)

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Kenneth Gilbert - Johann Sebastian Bach: Goldberg Variations (1999)

Kenneth Gilbert - Johann Sebastian Bach: Goldberg Variations (1999)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 441 Mb | Total time: 66:46 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Harmonia Mundi | HMA 1901240 | Recorded: 1986

The best qualities of Gilbert’s account are its spirit and energy, and (even more pleasing in some ways) its fertile imagination. That’s evidenced in his handling of the repeats and in the astonishing range and ingenuity of voicings and dynamic gradations, which helps to ensure that your interest and attention remain focused throughout. Where some interpreters make pretty heavy weather of the work, Gilbert often approaches it with a rare sense of fun and vitality: hear for yourself in Variations 7 or 11. That’s not to suggest there’s anything flippant that could gloss over the formal mastery and intellectual concentration of these Goldbergs.

Kenneth Gilbert - Johann Sebastian Bach: Concerto Italien, Ouverture à la Française (1992)

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Kenneth Gilbert - Johann Sebastian Bach: Concerto Italien, Ouverture à la Française (1992)

Kenneth Gilbert - Johann Sebastian Bach: Concerto Italien, Ouverture à la Française (1992)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 401 Mb | Total time: 56:18 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Harmonia Mundi | HMA 1951278 | Recorded: 1988

Kenneth Gilbert is one of today's most outstanding harpsichordists. On this recording of works by J.S. Bach, he uses two different instruments by a modern maker based on period examples. The difference in the sound accentuates the contrasts between the two large-scale works and the more intimate pieces.

Kenneth Gilbert - Rameau: Les Indes Galantes, Transcriptions originales pour clavecin (1992)

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Kenneth Gilbert - Rameau: Les Indes Galantes, Transcriptions originales pour clavecin (1992)

Kenneth Gilbert - Rameau: Les Indes Galantes, Transcriptions originales pour clavecin (1992)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 297 Mb | Total time: 43:10 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Harmonia Mundi | HMA 1901028 | Recorded: 1979

Beautiful, flawless performance by Kenneth Gilbert of a hitherto unknown work, one that deserves far more promimence in the body of Baroque keyboard music that is performed, recorded, and heard today. While there have been numerous recordings of the opera ballet itself, hearing the harpsichord transcriptions is a rare treasure trove.