Gustav Leonhardt
clavicembalo
Louis Couperin
Pavana (1651)
Suite in re maggiore
Dietrich Buxtehude
Praeludium Bux 163
Rofilis, tre variazioni
Joann Kaspar Kerll
Toccata di durezze e ligature
Johann Pachelbel
Tre fughe
Fantasia in si bemolle maggiore
Georg Böhm
Chaconne in sol maggiore
Johann Caspar Ferdinand Fischer
Chaconne in la minore
Chaconne in sol maggiore
Henry Purcell
Suite in re maggiore
Ground "Crown the Altar"
Johann Sebastian Bach
Aria variata alla maniera italiana BWV 989
"Naturally also a performing artist needs precision, but it is not a precision of thinking, it is a precision of imagination of what another person (the composer) might have imagined.
A composition may be based on certain fixed intellectual structures; in performance however (even in performance by the composer) these become slightly irregular and flexible with regard to lenght, loudness and colour of each note.
In fact I must confess here, that during performance, thinking is (should be) a thing of the past: then, only the flexible piece of music exists.
If it would be possible to fix a perfect performance once and forever, and wearable to every possible scrutinization, then, Magnifico Rettore, I might have earned a real doctorate long ago."
(G.Leonhardt, dalla lectio magistralis, Università di Padova, 24 ottobre 2000)
