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Haggin, B. H. | January 20, 1951 issue

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With everyone around falling on his knees before God's word embodied in the Landowska recording of Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier, the author can only report concerning the second group of eight Preludes and Fugues on an RCA Victor LP record that the works themselves, though composed by Bach, include a large number of dull pieces of music along with a few engaging Preludes and things as fine as Fugue No. 10, Prelude and Fugue No. 16, and the beautiful Prelude and magnificent Fugue No. 12; and that all including some which call for lightness and grace, are relentlessly pounded out on the harpsichord with occasional emphatic distentions of tempo that are not accounted for by what is happening in the music.

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WELL-Tempered Clavier, The (Music); CANONS, fugues, etc.; ELECTRONIC music; INSTRUMENTAL music; TEMPO (Music); MUSICAL meter & rhythm; MUSIC
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