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The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2015-06-16 18:58:37
[…] forefront of the keyboard “arms race” of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, a race that was to provide the necessary firepower for Beethoven and those who followed in his footsteps. However, though something wonderful was gained by those efforts, something equally wonderful was lost. That was the message of the Mini-Fest’s final recital, Luc Beauséjour’s truly virtuosic performance on a clavichord also dating from 1796 by the South German craftsman Johann Christoph Georg Schiedmayer [link here ]. For me, and evidently for many others in the audience, this was the Mini-Fest’s high point. The clavichord is capable of unusual expressiveness, but the delicacy of its sound would lead many performers to shy away from extrovert compositions such as Beauséjour tackled head-on: Handel’s Suite in D minor, HWV 437, and Bach’s French Suite No. 5 in G major, BWV 816. Again the latter composition is a German take on […]
The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2015-05-05 01:39:55
[…] do, as was the case here, benefit from quiet, subtle insight into flow, opportunities for color and interrelated contrast, and belief in the compelling appeal of compact means. Claude Debussy owned the remainder of the announced program, but so did the ever-beguiling soundscapes offered by this exceptional piano. The Fredericks’ 1877 Blüthner is German-made but is still audibly akin to the Viennese school of piano building from which Blüthner and their competitor firms (Tröndlin, Bechstein, Schiedmayer, Grotrian) derived. Three deeply evocative Préludes each from the 1er Livre (1904) and the 2ème Livre (1907) brought us sounds that, alas, we have simply lost touch with on today’s pianistic stage. I cite especially Bk. 1, No 10 La cathédrale engloutie, and Bk. 2, No. 7 La terrasse des audiences du clair de lune (The roof terrace where moonlight holds court) [My translation after Paul Jacob’s insightful liner notes for his 1970s recording, […]
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