The third concert in La Follia's all-Bach concert season is a reprise of one of its most popular programs ever: Bach's concertos for one, two, three, and four harpsichords. Performing are director ...
In the third installment of this enormously popular series, La Follia performs more of Bach’s concerti for 1-4 harpsichords. This concert will also include a four-harpsichord concerto composed in 2010 ...
One may expect to see many things at a harpsichord concert, but I daresay one of those refined classical instruments being comandeered by a guy in a Batman sweatshirt and a knit stocking cap isn't one ...
This is the fourth in a series of posts about appreciating classical music. Catch up on the first three parts of the series here, here and here. Though its name sounds archaic, the harpsichord is a ...
If the Kilkenny Arts Festival has whetted rather than sated your appetite for Bach, here’s Andreas Staier swinging into view with new versions of seven harpsichord concertos on two mid-price CDs. The ...
1 Review: BBC PROMS: VIVALDI AND BACH, Royal Albert Hall 2 Review: BBC PROMS: FIRST NIGHT OF THE PROMS 2025, Royal Albert Hall 3 Review: BBC PROMS: BEETHOVEN’S FIFTH, Royal Albert Hall On March 19, ...
If the period instrument movement of the last half century has taught us anything, it's how to quibble earnestly about questions like: Should Bach's keyboard music be played on a harpsichord or piano?
Pierre Hantai, harpsichord (Opus 111). Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I Huguette Dreyfus, harpsichord (Denon, 2-CD set). Huguette Dreyfus’ credentials as a Bach player need no introduction to ...
The audience was small. The slight keyboard instrument painted green on the stage wasn’t imposing. Beyond the first few rows of Walt Disney Concert Hall Wednesday, the delicate sound it made was faint ...
Wearing shorts, flip-flops and with reading glasses perched on the end of his nose, Rob Brooke was in his garage this week on 18th Avenue West, surrounded by power tools, the smell of wood and his two ...