Archive for August, 2010
Tuesday, August 17th, 2010
Interview with BBC Music Magazine
”I would say with an attempt at some modesty (I hope) that I haven’t had an audience member yet who hasn’t come to feel more positively about the harpsichord after a bit of listening….”
Tuesday, August 3rd, 2010
‘In the Beginning there was the Word’: Now What?
After finishing up the usual series of summer festivals, August is a good time to practise, rehearse with colleagues, plan programmes for the upcoming season, and to read all of the things that have been sitting on one’s nightstand since about last September or so. In January of this year I had made the resolution […]
Monday, August 2nd, 2010
Programme Notes: York Early Music Festival, July 2010
It is well-known, at least here in Albion, that many a French specialty is of foreign origin. French cookery in its classic tradition descends, of course, from the innovations introduced by the capi cuochi of Catherine de Médicis. In the visual arts, the first School of Fontainebleau was virtually the private domain of Italians and Flemings, while […]
Monday, August 2nd, 2010
Handel, Couperin, & Bach: Three Masters of the High Baroque
Like Beethoven and Liszt after him, George Frederick Handel was renowned as a keyboard virtuoso before he reached his full maturity as a composer. Like any musician of the Baroque age, his consciousness of music came through the keyboard as well as through singing – there is, of course, the famous story of his having […]