Cello Suites
Jaap ter Linden
Harmonia Mundi

All his life these suites have been very dear to Jaap, more than any other music. He performs this music in a unique way on beautiful historical instruments. His playing is a dancing delight. An underestimated cellist.

BACH

The Complete Cantatas
The Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra & Choir
Ton Koopman
Erato

It is impossible to make a choice if one is involved in such an enormous project to record (and to perform in concert) the complete Bach cantatas, secular as well as sacred. This is a co-operation between friends on the highest level; the love for this genial music radiates. A project of eleven years duration and the end is nearing too soon! I feel privileged to perform Bach’s works with such high quality musicians. A Bach with many different faces: tender, religious, richly colourful, rhythmically alive, love, a sense of freedom, improvisation, and guts without aggression. Bach has been truly magnanimous!

HAYDN

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Piano Trio’s Tini Mathot
Andrew Manze
Jaap ter Linden
Erato

The only CD for which I have just been the producer. Normally my wife Tini produces mine! Together with technician Adriaan Verstijnen, Tini, with her flawless ear in combination with a lot of patience, takes care of all my recordings. During this recording I realized how difficult it is to be an ideal producer, as she is for me. Tini plays the fortepiano, approaching the instrument from the world of the harpsichord (in my strong opinion the only correct way), which makes her playing unique and spiritual. She is very, very musical, as can be heard on this disc.

BACH

The Goldberg Variations
Gustav Leonhardt
Teldec

Gustav Leonhardt has recorded the marvelous Goldberg Variations 3 or 4 times. His very old recording [8573-81143-2] on a copy of a Dulcken instrument made me decide to study the harpsichord... with him! A beautiful sound and lovely rhetoric à la Leonhardt. More-over a magnificent harpsichordist.