Word: harpsichords
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...upon one masterpiece that helps explain another. The Met's collection of Islamic art lines a corridor that logically leads to a 14th century tiled mihrab (prayer niche), as magically multicolored as a Persian carpet. To show the effervescent character of baroque art, a huge, gilded 17th century harpsichord is placed against a wall of Tiepolo's levitating flights of linear fancy. And in the center of a room coated with Italian 16th century masters rests Benvenuto Cellini's great cup, a Renaissance fantasia 7½ in. high, in which a turtle and a dragon balance...
CARL PHILIPP EMANUEL BACH: SIX SONATAS FOR FLUTE AND HARPSICHORD (Nonesuch). In bringing back the solo flute, the baroque revival has also headlined a brilliant French flutist, Jean-Pierre Rampal, who seems to have enough breath to tackle the entire 18th century output for his instrument. Turning from J. S. Bach and Mozart, Rampal has recently recorded music by Telemann, Pergolesi and others, as well as these melodic and graceful entertainments by Bach fils, accompanist for that royal flutist, Frederick the Great...
...usual number of rhythm instruments and boosting the volume. Spectral orchestration, undulating with shimmering climaxes, is far more polished, varied and broadly rooted than the general run of rock 'n' roll. In Lovin' Feelin', Spector used two basses, three electric guitars, three pianos, a harpsichord, twelve violins, a ten-voice chorus and four brawny percussionists. His vocalists, a pair of 23-year-old white Californians who call themselves the Righteous Brothers, imitate the Negro gospel wail, a sound that Spector prizes as the "soulful yearning that every teen-ager understands...
...numbers they reach into the vitals of their pianos to strum, pluck and pound on the strings. In addition, they keep strips of Masonite, cardboard wedges, and sandpaper stashed in their pianos,' apply them to the strings to conjure up weird effects resembling gongs, castanets, drums, xylophone and harpsichord. Ferrante and Teicher have been playing in unison ever since they were sixyear-old prodigies studying together at Manhattan's Juilliard School of Music After twelve years and repeated prodding from teachers, they decided to become professional duo-pianists. In 1948 they bought an old delivery truck loaded...
...heard her could forget her. Wanda Landowska saw to that. A tiny black-clad priestess, palms pressed together in prayer, she would float in hushed silence to her altar, the harpsichord. A Romantic who played pre-Romantic music, she got shadings and majestic effects seemingly impossible on her instrument, and no one could equal her in bringing to independent life Bach's intertwined melodies. She took great liberties in interpretation, serenely confident of the backing of the dead composer. "You continue to play Bach your way," she told one musician. "I shall continue to play Bach his way. What...