Justin Taylor - Bach & l'Italie - BBC Music Magazine

Throughout, there’s a weightless energy to the playing: in the opening movement of BWV 974, Taylor captures the light bounce of the ‘spiccato’ bowing technique of the original, while the hot-tempered rhythms of the C minor Prelude, BWV 921 are played with the wild lick of bebop. Admirable, too, are the colours and quasi-orchestral timbres that he draws from the noble 1730 harpsichord housed in the Château of Assas, France.