PUBLISHED: Feb 12, 2014
DESCRIPTION:
Suite in g minor: Prélude - Allemande - Courante - Sarabande - Gigue en Rondeau- Chaconne en Rondeau
I have not recorded the final movements (Rondeau, Gavotte en Rondeau, Menuet en Rondeau, Menuet 1, Menuet 2)
Single Manual Harpsichord after Couchet / Ruckers 1679, Smithsonian Institution, Washington Dc., built by Titus Crijnen, Holland, 1999.
There are only two sets of strings, one at 8' and one at 4', and the two rows of 8' jacks pluck the same string;
Played by Andreas Zappe, a= 415 Hz;
Picture: Painting by Jessica Zappe (Atelier Zappe) 2011