For those who do not know, the story goes that Balbastre, whilst organist of Notre Dame Paris, was so popular that at times, there was standing room only in the church and folk spilling into the street, especially near Christmas when the cathedral authorities asked him not to play his famous Noels for fear of an unseemly riot!
may I say THIS is FANTASTICALLY played. For me all excelent harpsichord players are joined in his play , except that he adds his very own personal strongness as well as poetry. He must be the best .....
Simply beautiful performance! By the clever and tasteful change of the different registers it is so much more expressive than most other harpsichord performances.
Very impressive - the piece and its performance. Bravo! What I don't understand is, why I feel the instrument-sound to be a little bit different between the 2 instruments, compared to the last upload (although the same Bruce Kennedy, the same year and the same pitch, after N. Blanchet)? Is it because of the difference between Palazzo Mazzolari's acoustic and Palazzo Gradari-Mamioni where you played the La Marche des Scythes by Royer?
