26 BACH | THE FRENCH SUITES (BWV 812-817) What sort of sounds were you looking to reproduce, or even imitate, on the piano here? It is music that I have often played at home on a clavichord. Bach loved this instrument, which is the only one among the keyboard family that allows us to make the notes vibrate through a very subtle pressure. This helped me to develop a style of playing close to that of singing. Another essential aspect of my reflection on timbre concerned the transition from one register to another. I referred to the aesthetic of early keyboards, for unlike modern instruments, which tend towards a certain uniformity of sound, earlier keyboards were divided into three or four distinct zones. This made it possible to play subtly with different sound planes and to create effects of spatialisation.
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