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This CD presents irresistible music: true, strong, and vivacious ? Lorenzo Ghielmi makes us forget that the harpsichord is an instrument without dynamics. Based on the first biography of Bach, written by Johann Nikolaus Forkel, harpsichordist Lorenzo Ghielmi creates a veritable soundtrack for the book. Lorenzo Ghielmi performs on a fortepiano after Gottfried Silbermann, 1749; harpsichords after Christian Vater, 1738 and François Blanchet, 1730; and a fretted clavichord after Christian Gottlob Hubert, 1787. Johann Nikolaus Forkel (1749-1818), German musician, was born in Coburg. He was the son of a cobbler, and as a practical musician, especially as a pianoforte player, achieved some eminence; but his claims to a more abiding name rest chiefly upon his literary skill and deep research as an historian of music, science and literature. Forkel was an enthusiastic admirer of Johann Sebastian Bach, whose music he did much to popularize. Forkel wrote Bach?s first biography.