Word: fortepiano
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Specializing in the music of the classical period, the Cambridge Society for Early Music presents a tribute to the 18th and 19th century works of Mozart, Haydn and Beethoven. The one-night concert will feature guest instrumentalist Kenneth Drake on the fortepiano. Tickets $25, $20 for students and senior citizens. Call (617) 495-9400. 7:30 p.m. Adolphus Busch Hall, 29 Kirkland...
...personally very excited about our Feb. 4 concert, which will be held in Sanders Theatre,” says Fay. “Hopefully we will be using Harvard’s fortepiano and one of Harvard’s professors will give a pre-concert lecture...
...beautiful brown fortepiano came with four well-dressed movers who brought the instrument onto center stage as the soloist, British pianist David Owen Norris, explained that the fortepiano was built in Mendelssohn's lifetime (1823) and was thus better suited to the composer's little tricks and idiosyncrasies...
Nomura was fortunate to be accompanied by Boston Museum Trio member John Gibbons on a period-appropriate Austrian fortepiano...
...excerpt from act II, scene 4 of Twelfth Night. Yet even if their tone is more modest than that of the cantata, their dramatic development is comparable. Haydn's delicate melody-lines are lovingly phrased by Watkinson, and Wilson audibly revels in the remarkably independent keyboard writing. The fortepiano passages contain moments of intense, near-pictorial portraiture, such as in the "Sailor's Song" and in "Fidelity," which speaks of "rushing winds" and the "tempests." There are also languid moments of introspection, most notably in the "Spirit's Song," "She Never Told her Love" (the setting of Shakespeare...