Fantasie: Seven Composers, Seven Keyboards

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Album Info

Release Date: 2023-04-28

Label: Harmonia Mundi

Total Time: 1:08:16

Download includes a 14-page PDF booklet with credits and notes (in English, French, and German/Deutsch), and photos of the VERY interesting types of period pianos that were employed:

Tracks 1 & 2: Two-manual harpischord by Markus Fischinger (Berlin, 2019),after Hans Ruckers II (Antwerp, 1624, rebuilt ca. 1720)
Track 3: Tangent piano (tangentenflügel) by Christoph Friedrich Schmahl (Regensburg, 1790), restored by Georg Ott
Tracks 4 & 5: Fortepiano by Christoph Kern (Staufen im Breisgau, 2014), after Anton Walter (Vienna, 1795) (Alexander Melnikov’s collection)
Tracks 6 -8: Fortepiano by Alois Graff (Vienna, ca. 1828), restored by Edwin Beunk (Alexander Melnikov’s collection)
Track 9: Érard piano (Paris, ca. 1885), restored by Markus Fischinger (Alexander Melnikov’s collection)
Track 10: Bechstein piano, model B (Berlin, ca. 1905-1910), restored by Carsten Schulz
Tracks 11 & 12: Steinway & Sons piano, model D-274 (2014)

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