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If you really want an early LP, here are FLAC files of the second 
recording, with Kirkpatrick recorded 20 years later than Falla:

http://shellackophile.blogspot.co.at/2012/01/mitch-and-20th-century-harpsichord.html

 From reading the score it is clear that Falla was trying very hard 
in places to mmake the Pleyel audible: there is little of what one 
can honestly call harpsichord type texture, in the sense of Couperin 
et al, about the solo part -- thick chords in the bass, melodies 
doubled at the 15th and lots of arpeggios in the slow movement.  One 
longs for a bit of a rest from the busy texture, and melodic 
passages, such as Froberger and Scarlatti employed.

Coming up with an authentic sound is surely not as difficult as in 
the case of the keyboard part for Mahler's "Bach Suite", for which he 
used a small Steinway grand, prepared with tacks on the hammers.  No 
kind of harpsichord or electronic instrument can substitute for this 
instrument, which is more akin to Cage's demands!

David

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