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The previous reviewer has made some misleading statements which should be cleared up.
Modern tuning is based on the system of equal temperament in which A has a frequency of 440Hz.
However, it should be obvious from the title of these compositions alone that J.S. Bach composed these pieces for a WELL-TEMPERED instrument (for which A has a frequency of ~392Hz) and NOT an equal-tempered instrument.
Gilbert has recorded these pieces using an historically appropriate instrument (an 18th century harpsichord), an historically appropriate acoustic space (a baroque chapel) and the historically appropriate well-tempered tuning that was originally intended by the composer.
Do not let the ignorant blather of the previous reviewer dissuade you from buying this exquisite, hauntingly beautiful recording. It's probably as close as we can get today to what it would have been like to hear the great master perform his own works.
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