Word: harpsichordist
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Landon, now 39 and working with his harpsichordist wife out of a villa in Florence, likens his role to "that of an expert restorer of antique furniture, for whom the greatest praise can only be that the final result, the missing leg of the table, is indistinguishable from the rest...
SYLVIA MARLOWE: HARPSICHORD (Decca). The eminent harpsichordist looks to the future of her archaic instrument by commissioning new pieces by the dozen. Among them are chamber works by Ned Rorem and Elliott Carter, both contrasting the tangy harpsichord with bland woodwinds. Rorem strings together short, romantic "songs without words," while Carter builds a severe, towering structure out of tiny musical blocks. Highlight of the recording is the plangent Concerto for Harpsichord, Flute, Oboe, Clarinet, Violin and Cello by Manuel de Falla...
...extra performance of "The Visit" will be staged tomorrow night. Originally the Loeb had planned a performance tonight, but that has now been cancelled. The Cambridge Society for Early Music concert, with harpsichordist Fernando Valenti, planned for this evening in Sanders Theatre, has been postponed for two weeks. G. Wallace Woodworth, director of the Society, indicated that the concert would be rescheduled...
BACH: THE GOLDBERG VARIATIONS, Vols. I and II (London). Harpsichordist George Malcolm never disobeys his metronome or his score, and the glimmer of life that survives has all the dignity of age with none of the frailties...
...Concerto in D Minor (Angel) features the late Francis Poulenc and Jacques Fevrier as the two pianists in Poulenc's familiar and joyously baroque double concerto. Concert Champétre for Harpsichord and Orchestra, on the other side, is not vintage Poulenc, though played with mercurial zeal by Harpsichordist Aimée van de Wiele...