Colin Tilney is one of the most frequently recorded harpsichordists of the digital era, and for good reason; his playing is solid yet sensitive, yielding to the pulse but authoritative in transmitting the letter of the music. His style is very congenial to the music of Johann Sebastian Bach, and he has recorded a substantial amount of it: continuo parts in the harpsichord and flute concerti, the keyboard toccatas, a justly famous recording of "The 48," and the English Suites. Semi-retired and living in Victoria, British ...
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Colin Tilney is one of the most frequently recorded harpsichordists of the digital era, and for good reason; his playing is solid yet sensitive, yielding to the pulse but authoritative in transmitting the letter of the music. His style is very congenial to the music of Johann Sebastian Bach, and he has recorded a substantial amount of it: continuo parts in the harpsichord and flute concerti, the keyboard toccatas, a justly famous recording of "The 48," and the English Suites. Semi-retired and living in Victoria, British Columbia, Tilney regularly appears with the Victoria Symphony as soloist in Bach's D minor Concerto in addition to serving as its regular harpsichordist. With Music and Arts' Fugue: Bach and his Forerunners, Tilney turns for the first time on recordings to Bach's valedictory masterpiece, The Art of Fugue, a work Tilney's one-time master Gustav Leonhardt has recorded no less than three times. However, this recording does so with a difference; Tilney elects to perform the work in part,...
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