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French organist and harpsichordist
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2024-02-22 15:58:53
Stravinsky: Pulcinella Suite – Falla: El Retablo de Maese Pedro album review – fascinating and intense
Alard/Mahler CO/Heras-Casado(Harmonia Mundi)An intriguing comparison of sound worlds that includes Falla’s Harpsichord Concerto – one of the lost masterpieces of 1920s modernism Composing Pulcinella was, said
2021-04-18 10:56:55
A Life On-Line: rare Vaughan Williams, unknown Venetians, Welsh language opera, vertical harpsichords
[…] rather evident and wondered whether Puw and Glyn had been a bit too reverent with Parry's source material. The first scene, with the youthful couple, did not quite take flight and I felt that it got a bit too bogged down, but in middle-aged the relationship was all too real and in old age both singers rendered decline and changes to their relationship in a touching way. [YouTube] On Friday, I caught French harpsichordist Benjamin Alard in a programme of JS Bach, Johann Caspar Ferdinand Fisher and Francois Couperin which looked at the French influence on Bach's early keyboard music. The programme came live from the Théâtre de la Ville in Paris (no on-demand I'm afraid), but what made it so fascinating was that Alard was playing a copy of a clavicytherium or vertical harpsichord. Yes, exactly what it seems, the strings run up and down. Alard's instrument was a […]
2021-02-02 09:31:03
Ancient and modern: two engaging new dance-based suites alongside Baroque music on the debut recording from a new American orchestra
[…] composer Gareth Farr's cello concerto, written in memory of his great-uncles killed in the First World War - CD review Influence at Court: the sacred music of Pelham Humfrey explored in a new disc from the choir of Her Majesty's Chapel Royal on Delphian - CD review A snapshot of the time: Sound and Music (Vol. 1) - CD review Bach & the art of transcription: Benjamin Alard's survey of Bach's keyboard works reaches the late Weimar period and the composer's discovery of Vivaldi's concertos - CD review Home
2021-02-01 09:20:17
Conjuring the image of Felix and Fanny at the piano: Mendelssohn's own piano-duet transcriptions of 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' and 'The Fair Melusine'
[…] composer Gareth Farr's cello concerto, written in memory of his great-uncles killed in the First World War - CD review Influence at Court: the sacred music of Pelham Humfrey explored in a new disc from the choir of Her Majesty's Chapel Royal on Delphian - CD review A snapshot of the time: Sound and Music (Vol. 1) - CD review Bach & the art of transcription: Benjamin Alard's survey of Bach's keyboard works reaches the late Weimar period and the composer's discovery of Vivaldi's concertos - CD review Sacred Ayres: Psalms, Hymns and Spirituals Songs by contemporary composer Paul Ayres from the chapel choir of Selwyn College on Regent Records - CD review Home
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