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All I have really is Bach's English Suites and Partitas. I downloaded Rameau's 'Complete Harpsichord Works' and it sounds great. Much more accessible than the Bach I mentioned. That stuff is all over the place!

Any other recommendations? And you don't have to limit yourself to Baroque music.

― Patrick South (Patrick South), Sunday, 29 May 2005 20:39 (twenty-one years ago)

the stranglers, "golden brown".

ahem.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Sunday, 29 May 2005 20:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Joanna Newsom, "Peach, Plum, Pear"

Yeah, I said it. Now what?

― Brock! (Brock!), Sunday, 29 May 2005 21:03 (twenty-one years ago)

György Ligeti, "Continuum." My preferred version is Antoinette M. Vischer's performance. It's hard to believe an actual human being played this.

― Salvador Saca (Mr. Xolotl), Sunday, 29 May 2005 22:07 (twenty-one years ago)

more into modern than baroque, and poular-music oriented at that. i would have to agree with brock! (above) on this one

― Robin Samples, Monday, 30 May 2005 05:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Rick Wakeman to thread...

― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Monday, 30 May 2005 05:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh, and "I Haven't Got the Nerve" by The Left Banke.

― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Monday, 30 May 2005 05:25 (twenty-one years ago)

"I Haven't Got the Nerve" by The Left Banke.

― Zed Szetlian (Finn MacCool), Monday, 30 May 2005 06:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Arovane - Tides

― willem (willem), Monday, 30 May 2005 07:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Left Banke albums are really hard to find, but I like what I've heard of them.

― Patrick South (Patrick South), Monday, 30 May 2005 08:29 (twenty-one years ago)

György Ligeti, "Continuum."

Somebody beat me to it! Plus there's quite a few rockin' Xenakis pieces which are, errrrrrrrrrrrrr, not baroque

― Vicious Cop Kills Gentle Fool (Dada), Monday, 30 May 2005 11:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Scarlatti, Couperin. For accessible Bach, try the Two-Part and Three-Part Inventions.

― Curt (cgould), Monday, 30 May 2005 13:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Seriously, I don't know how anyone can listen to baroque keyboard works on harpsichord. I have the Maggie Cole version of the Goldbergs, pretty much unlistenable to me.

― Masked Gazza, Monday, 30 May 2005 15:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Bach's partitas are my favorite harpsichord works. I like the recording by Parmentier, though I've only heard a few others.

― RS (Catalino) LaRue (RSLaRue), Monday, 30 May 2005 15:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Aren't the Goldberg variations quite repetitive though?

― Patrick South (Patrick South), Monday, 30 May 2005 16:01 (twenty-one years ago)

The Left Banke to thread! :)

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Monday, 30 May 2005 17:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Reading the thread to thread!

― Paul in Santa Cruz (Paul in Santa Cruz), Monday, 30 May 2005 18:52 (twenty-one years ago)

six years pass...

harpsichord kinda eats it overall :/

― wack nerd zinging in the dead of night (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 19:02 (fourteen years ago)

i mean piano came up and put the whole harpsichord scene on blast IMO

― wack nerd zinging in the dead of night (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 19:03 (fourteen years ago)

I like the Wanda Landowska version of Goldberg Variations. It's the only one I ever feel like listening to other than Gould.

― this guy's a gangsta? his real name's mittens. (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 19:12 (fourteen years ago)

No way man. Scarlatti Scarlatti Scarlatti. Thee soul of harpsichord.

― Hierophantiasis (Jon Lewis), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 19:17 (fourteen years ago)

I admit that I listen to much more Bach on piano, but Scarlatti is a different story.

― Hierophantiasis (Jon Lewis), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 19:18 (fourteen years ago)

it's so plinky! i like classical piano way more. harpsichord can be ok for rap samples or as a fancy-pants signifier in certain types of soft psych

― wack nerd zinging in the dead of night (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 20:21 (fourteen years ago)

Here's the thing. Harpsichord REALLY sucks in low fi. You need enough bitrate to really soak in the timbre of those notes. Otherwise there's just... no interest. Dunno what res spotify streams at...

― Hierophantiasis (Jon Lewis), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 20:39 (fourteen years ago)

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