Winner of the fifth Aliénor International Composition Competition for new harpsichord music Suite Española was inspired by the music of Spanish composer Isaac Albéniz and is written in a style accessible to a wide range of performers. The four movement suite includes Malagueña (an emotional song) Romanza (imitates guitar strumming) Seguidillas (a fast triple-meter dance) and Tango (romantic an…
Written for solo harpsichord.The composer writes: In 1989 I composed Jardin des herbes a set of three pieces for solo harpsichord. My intention was to evoke the colour and delicate aromatic qualities of three herbs rosemary sweet violet and lavender. Rosemary is a bush with pale blue flowers glowing in the moonlight Sweet Violet is described as early spring flowers with seductive scent and L…
Selected from Musica Britannica Volume 73. Edited by Robert Klakowich.Amateur and professional players with an interest in Baroque repertoire will welcome this generous selection of 25 harpsichord pieces by John Blow (1649-1708). Blow stands as the dominant figure of English harpsichord composition in the late seventeenth century the master of an individual school that merged continental influenc…
Jean-Henri d'Anglebert (1629-1691) was one of the foremost composers of Keyboard music of his day. Therefore the collection of his works Pieces for Harpsichord is essential to all players of early Baroque Keyboard music. D'Anglebert's Pieces for Harpsichord represents some of the finest achievements of the French Harpsichord school and shows the composer's mastery of counterpoint as well as his…
A Harpsichord is a musical instrument played by means of a keyboard. It produces sound by plucking a string when a key is pressed. The instrument was widely used in Renaissance and Baroque music. During the late 18th century it gradually disappeared from the musical scene with the rise of the Piano. In the 20th century it made a resurgence being used in historically informed performances of olde…
Book 2 of Henry Purcell's Complete Harpsichord Works - contains a magnificent miscellany of pieces edited by Howard Ferguson. Includes 18 pieces from The Second Part of Musick's Handmaid 1689; 6 pieces from A Choice Collection of Lessons 1696/99 and other pieces from various sources. Selected for the ABRSM examinations grades 4 and 5.
Version 2010-“Books talk to each other” - Umberto Eco’s statement could just as easily apply to music as Les Citations for Oboe Harpsichord Double Bass and Percussion by Henri Dutilleux (1916-2013) brilliantly proves. Written in 1991 the score was reworked by the composer for the Festival d’Auvers-sur-Oise where the new version premiered in June 2010. The origin of thi…
Edited by Denis StevensChoosing for their first volume of Musica Britannica a unique collection of 16th-century keyboard music the original editors established the high standard of scholarship and presentation that have continued as the guiding principles for the entire series. This historic publication contains 120 compositions for organ or virginals.First published in 1951 revised 1954 and rep…
This first volume of Harpsichord Work by Jacques Duphly is the first of a series of two which includes the two parts of Volume 1. Featuring 19 pieces this work for Harpsichord was reviewed and edited by Françoise Petit. With a preface in French English and German that sets the context of the work and presents the composer this first book offers a set of pieces for intermediate players. With sim…
Book 1-Revised Edition by Howard Ferguson and Christopher Hogwood. Contains:Suite No.1 In CSuite No.2 In C MinorSuite No.3 In C MinorSuite No.4 In C MinorSuite No.5 In C MinorSuite No.6 In D MinorSuite No.7 In E FlatSuite No.8 In ESuite No.9 In E MinorSuite No.10 In E Minor
A cura di Cesare Fertonani-The series Eighteenth Century Italian Music includes compositions of special historical and musical significance. Each edition is based on the original sources to offer performers works that satisfy clear critical and musicological criteria. This anthology includes twelve harpsichord sonatas carefully selected from among those written by ten of the most important eightee…
Second volume of the second tome and fourth book of the Complete Harpsichord Work by Johann Jakob Froberger this volume is a set of twenty-five pieces for Harpsichord. Edited by Howard Schott the book has its preface and information in French English and German. It features eighteen suites numbered from Suite XIII to Suite XXX as well as seven other works including three guigues and four oth…
Date de publication : 01/06/2006 Difficulté : (1 à 2/8) Facile Format : 21 x 29,7 cm Matériel : Partition Instrumentation : Clavecin Caractéristiques : Classique Ce recueil propose un choix de pièces destinées à la première année d'apprentissage du clavecin, L'ouvrage se divise en 20 leçons progressives rassemblant diverses pièces du 16ème au 20ème siècle, Celles-ci sont précédées chacune de quel…
First modern edition, by Sarah Freiberg, of these sonatas, 1765; keyboard part fully realized by Byron Schenkman; includes separate continuo part for a second cello or bassoon. Recorded on Centaur CRC 2534.
