> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jim Morrison [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2001 12:36 PM
> To: Nicholas Bunning
>
> Jim (who thinks the 1728 Hamburg Zell that van Asperen plays on his WTC
set
> may be the finest he's every heard, though a real contender is the Zell
copy
> made by Keith Hill and played by Parmentier on the Partitas set.  Anybody
> know of other recordings made on those two instruments?)

Alan Curtis recorded the Goldberg Variations on the Zell back in 1977. I
have the vinyl record on the EMI Electrola label (there's a name from the
past!), and don't know if it has been reissued on CD. Should have been
because it's a nice performance and recording. The record also includes the
newly discovered 14 Kanons played by Arthur Haas on a Skowronek. The notes
include rather a quaint paragraph by Alan Curtis starting "Why should anyone
want to perform the Goldberg Variations on an antique harpsichord?"

Chris Cartwright