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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, May 24th, 2010
Musings on Wanda Landowska
It is with a sense of great honour that I play this harpsichord of an artist who gave the world back its musical heritage.
Wednesday, May 19th, 2010
What is a really historical approach to technique?
Universality of technique…
Friday, April 16th, 2010
hot off the press: BBC Music Magazine May 2010 issue, with cover CD
cover CD for May 2010 issue of BBC Music Magazine
Thursday, April 15th, 2010
The modernity of the early Baroque
In the preface to Il secondo libro di toccate…&c. (1637) [the Second Book of Toccatas…], Girolamo Frescobaldi (1583-1643) wrote a few helpful comments to the player of his music. Amongst them we find these comments: ‘Primieramente; che non dee questo modo di sonare stare soggetto a battuta, come ueggiamo usarsi ne i Madrigali moderni, i quali quantunque difficili si ageuolano per mezzodella […]
Monday, March 29th, 2010
up next: Radio 3’s ‘In Tune’ and the Wigmore Hall
preparing for exciting things…