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Click the album cover to listen to the complete album:<br \/>\n<a href=\"\/nmlplayer.php?nID=16\" target=\"naxos\" ><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/images\/blog\/timepresent-harpsichord.jpg\" width=\"410\" \/><\/a><br \/><span style=\"font-size:0.8\">(This is a new feature available for Gold members of pianostreet.com)<\/span><\/div>\n<p><em>&#8220;If you buy only one record of harpsichord music in your life . . . buy this sensational album&#8221;<\/em> wrote Richard Morrison, The Times (London). Although most of us don&#8217;t buy records anymore, this recently released album &#8220;Time Present and Time Past&#8221; including music by Johann Sebastian Bach, Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, Francesco Geminiani, Henryk G\u00f3recki, Steve Reich and  Alessandro Scarlatti could be worth checking out. 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