1939 Ralph KIRKPATRICK HARPSICHORD Recital Musicraft 25 Chromatic Fantasia 78

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RALPH KIRKPATRICK, US Harpsichordist Extraordinaire, in his SECOND , 1938 recording for MUSCRAFT of 17th and 18th century harpsichord literature on a wonderfully sonorous Arnold Dolmetsch Chickering Harpsichord:

Johann Sebastian Bach: Chromatic Fantaisie and Fugue 3 sides

Side 4: Domenico Scarlatti: Sonata in D (282), Sonata in A MInor(429)

Gibbons The Lord of Salisbury, The Queens Command/Morley: Goe from my Window

Purcell: Suite No 1 in G maj, Suite No 2 in G Minor/Couperin: Les Verges Fleuris, Le Carillon de Cithere

Purcell Suite 2 concluded/Couperin: Les Ombres Errantes, Les Baricades Misterieuses

on 6x 12" Musicraft records 78 rpm. in original album 25 ORIGINAL 1938 Issue with the printed cover and the blue and grey label

Condition:EXCELLENT  minus, scuffs, rare fine scratches, needs cleaning, rare scuffs, album like new

The original 2/6/1939 Times Announcement:

Harpsichord Recital" (Ralph Kirkpatrick; Musicraft: 12 sides). U. S. Harpsichordist Kirkpatrick, an authority on 17th and 18th Century composers, plays a representative anthology, including Bach's Chromatic Fantasy and Fugue, two Scarlatti sonatas, two Purcell suites.

Now for all of us, who have reservations of the pre-war harpsichord sound, as exemplified by Landowskas Pleyel, need to listen to these recordings:

A 1910 Arnold Dolmetsch Chickering Harpsichord, with a wonderful sonority, and a sharp nasal register. It sounds nothing but miraculous, and fulfills Johann Sebastian Bachs dictum (of the organ) of Gravitas, Lieblichkeit und Schaerfe (Gravitas, Sweetness and Sharpness)

A harpsichord expert gave me the following information on the Dolmetsch-Chickering:

Condition: EXCELLENT MINUS, unworn, but rubs and scuffs throughout, album great with faint print on spine, rough edges. some sleeves split

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