• Ishizaka plays the 24 preludes and fugues with impeccable taste and technique
    Donald Rosenberg, Gramophone Magazine
  • I have never heard "Book 1" done better. You hear Bach with new ears.
    Grego Applegate Edwards
  • She has a very poetic touch, and seems to have a wide variety of colours at her fingertips
    Robert Hugill
  • This is a recording to change your perception of the Well-Tempered Clavier.
    Campbell Vertesi
  • A gifted and obviously devoted Bachian
    James Oestreich, New York Times
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St. Aposteln, Köln, Germany - August 25, 2012

Kimiko Ishizaka performed the complete Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1, in the St. Aposteln Church in Köln, Germany, as the beginning of her world tour. She played on a Bösendorfer grand piano. It was reviewed by Fritz Herzog in the Bonner General Anzeiger.

English translation:

Ishizaka vividly carves out the individual characteristics, contrasts, and relationships of the 48 pieces from the rather lyric sounding instrument, and thus creates an comprehensible cyclic context that doesn't sound like it's coming from the ivory tower.

Original German:

Mit musikalischer Sorgfalt arbeitet Ishizaka auf diesem eher lyrisch klingenden Instrument die jeweiligen Charakteristika, Bezüge und Kontraste der 48 Teile plastisch heraus und schafft so einen fern ab aller Akademik angesiedelten und nachvollziehbaren zyklischen Kontext.

http://www.general-anzeiger-bonn.de/region/koeln/bonner-pianistin-in-st-apost...