Suite No.5 E minor BWV810 - II. Allemande

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Johann Sebastian Bach

Six English Suites
BWV 806-811

Edward Parmentier, harpsichord
The instrument has the standard late-18th-century French disposition: two manuals with compass FE to f3; lower manual with quilled 8'; a peau de buffle 8' (plucking the same set of strings as the quilled 8'); and 4'; upper manual with 8'; buff to the upper 8'; and shove coupler. Presumably, the registers were originally controlled by genouilleres (knee pommels). Althought the instrument was unsympathetically rebuilt in the early 1950s, these alterations were reversed by Hugh Gough, from whom the Museum acquired the instrument. The soundboard, with its beautiful original decorative painting, is in an excellent state of preservation, as are the keyboards and the major components of the case. The Louis XV-style case is original while the painted decoration on the exterior and on the lid are modern. Most importantly, the instrument retains the superb, refined tone that is so characteristic of the 18th-century French harpsichord.

Recorded summer 1993 in America's Shrine to Music Museum in Vermilion, South Dakota.

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