Kimiko Ishizaka's recording of J.S. Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1, will be released in March 2015. Do you want to be amongst the first people to download it? You have two options. Either you can refresh the Well-Tempered Clavier website every five minutes and find out that way, or you can sign up for Kimiko's mailing list, and get a notification directly. Your choice.
Bandcamp is a service that allows musicians to release albums for distribution. It's ideal for the Open Goldberg Variations (and for the upcoming Open Well-Tempered Clavier) recording because it supports the "pay what you want" model. This allows us to offer the files for gratis download, but fans can still decide to pay an amount of their choice to promote Kimiko's efforts to make more recordings and go on more tours. Some of Kimiko's fans are very generous! The other advantages of Bandcamp are the natural audience that they bring (people search the site to discover new music), the high quality of the transcoding and metadata, analytics, and a very nicely designed landing page for albums and artists. Color me impressed.
I dearly love this recording, and I'm not the only one. Grammophone, The Strad, and now The Arts Desk have showered praise on this recording. In fact, everybody who hears it is taken with it.
