Word: harpsichords
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...provided a text for a youth who once was one of Austria's most promising child prodigies, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Their work, La Finta Giardiniera, was staged in Munich last year, and Mozart hopes to find sponsors for further productions. Mozart has been performing publicly on the harpsichord and violin since the age of six, but his remarkable gift seems to be turning mainly toward composition. Still only 20, he has already written ten Masses for his employer, the Archbishop of Salzburg, as well as a prodigious total of seven other operas, 18 violin sonatas, five violin concertos...
Baroque Music for soprano, violin and continuo done by Carol Magenau, soprano; Stephen Hefling, violin; Nancy Rich, cello; and Lenora McCroskey, harpsichord. Appleton Chapel, Memorial Church, Harvard Yard...
David Schulenberg, harpsichord, performs Bach, Froberger, Couperin, and Bach. Eliot House Library...
Judith Blegen and Frederica von Stade (Charles Wadsworth, piano and harpsichord; Gervase de Peyer, clarinet: Gerard Schwarz, trumpet; Columbia: $6.98). Two brilliant young American-born singers team up with a superior set of instrumentalists in a glowing recital of vocal music. The mood shifts in a varied repertory that encompasses Schumann's playful duet Das Glück as well as Chausson's haunting Chanson Perpetuelle, sung with grave beauty by Von Stade. Blegen's supple trills whirl with Gerard Schwarz's bright trumpet through Alessandro Scarlatti's aria Se geloso e il mio core...
David Schulenberg, harpsichord, plays renaissance and baroque classics. Dunster House Library...