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Extra Tracks
Below are tracks from our library that never made it onto one of our compact discs. They can be downloaded here as high quality 320kbs AAC encoded (MP3) files.
Purchasers of tracks have unlimted personal use but must not pass or sell on to third parties nor broadcast without prior permission from PPL
Wanda Landowska (1879 – 1959)
Landowska was born in Warsaw. She began playing piano at the age of four. After marrying the Polish folklorist Henry Lew in 1900 in Paris, she taught piano at the Schola Cantorum. Deeply interested in musicology, and particularly in the works of Bach, Couperin and Rameau, she toured the museums of Europe looking at original keyboard instruments. she acquired old instruments and had new ones made at her request by Pleyel. These were large, heavily-built harpsichords with a 16-foot stop (a set of strings an octave below normal pitch) and owed much to piano construction.
Responding to criticism by fellow Bach specialist Pablo Casals, she once said: "You play Bach your way, and I'll play him his way."
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