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- ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2013-07-08. Retrieved 2013-07-08.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
- ↑ The Italian-language version features Johann Sebastian Bach on the cover of the LP and CD. The album's full title is Contaminazione di alcune idee di certi preludi e fughe del Clavicembalo ben temperato di J. S. Bach (English: Contamination of some ideas from certain preludes and fugues from The Well-Tempered Clavier of J. S. Bach).
