what do we have here? it is an old cassette live-recording of a cembalo concert, that took place November 1987 in my parents house. They invited a musician, wo dedicated his live to the full exploration of Johan Sebastian Bachs "Kunst der Fuge". He not only learned to perform this difficult and complexe piece of music, he also constructed the cembalo on this own, to get get the best sound he could have for Bachs music interpretations.
I remember very well how he came that day with his Mercedes 200E and his cembalo in the trunk. We had to carry the instrument carefully in the livingroom, where he had to retune it for a whole day. this was as tiring as important.
In the evening, when the guests came, he became nervous, because the rising of the temparature and the humidity could cause a detuning again. Nevertheless he played beautifully and the cembalo sounded divinely good.
I could make the recording with an Aurex Toshiba System 10 and only one stereomic.(!!) I used to play violin at this time, knew a little bit about classical music and was blown away by the performance and the sound of this cembalo. It was a lasting impression, how far an artist can go for his will to achieve his goal. Many people who were in the audience, thought he was an autist or a nerdy freak, but they did not understand the spiritual and intellectual level he was at.
I have chosen a fragment of his performance to cut it on polycarbonate, to see how this sounds like, but in the end the original tape is much much better. you can hear other fragments in my song "spirit of bach" by Q-rosh.

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