Word: harpsichordists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...caused such an intramural scandal that no new work of his was played for five years. The silence was ended last spring with the premiere of a cantata, The Laments of Shchaza. Volkonsky composes in the twelve-tone style, but he is also a first-rate concert harpsichordist and a leader in the revival of baroque music in Russia...
SCARLATTI: 51 SONATAS (3 LPs; Cambridge). Harpsichordist Albert Fuller has made a representative but unhackneyed selection of 16 early, 17 middle and 18 late sonatas (though all were published after Scarlatti was 54). The pieces, paired like Bach's preludes and fugues, are miniature marvels-many with a flamenco flavor-and Fuller dashes them off with robust energy and vivid coloration. His interpretations, however, lack the poetry and variety that Fernando Valenti brings to Scarlatti. Valenti has recorded 29 LPs (346 sonatas), most of which are available on Westminster...
...Queen Elizabeth II while he was special assistant (from 1958 to 1960) to his cousin, John Hay Whitney, then Ambassador to Britain. When the Symingtons went to Washington, he began entertaining foreign visitors at informal songfests, usually in duet with his petite, chestnut-haired wife. An accomplished pianist and harpsichordist, Sylvia Symington has worked as a volunteer music teacher to Washington slum children, in 1960 organized a group of women to help wives of African diplomats overcome their awe of bustling Washington. Proficient in French, she even accompanied her wards to the dentist's office to relay such instructions...
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...