Word: valenti
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...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 FOR HARPSICHORD (Columbia). Fernando Valenti has a lyrical touch for his mechanical instrument and just the blithe spirit to go with it. More musical than Malcolm, more guarded than Gould, Valenti plays a textbook Bach with joy and devotion...
...Valenti's reluctance to play Manhattan recitals is his own mystery-he is a complex virtuoso who talks of feeling unready, being too busy, hurting his hand in Spain some years ago. But when he does play, it is invariably a triumph-both for Valenti and for the friends who have pushed him into it. Friends even help finance his career; the $6,000 instrument he plays is a gift from a twelve-man fan club called "The Friends of Valenti...
...When Valenti works hard at it, the harpsichord business is terrific. He has already recorded 350 of Domenico Scarlatti's 555 sonatas, and the demand for his records has pushed him into some of the worst harpsichord music ever written: "First we did the flute and harpsichord sonatas of Bach. They went well, so we did the sonatas of Handel-which are bad Bach. They sold; so next we did the sonatas of Telemann-bad Handel. Then came the works of Frederick the Great-which are awful Telemann. We even considered the music of Frederick's sister Amelia...
Nothing Sacred. At 36, Valenti, who was born in Manhattan, has refined his technique over 19 years of study until he is now the most exciting of the masters. He can color his music with crescendos and diminuendos denied to most players by the nature of the instrufnent (the strings are plucked by quills or leather picks instead of being struck by hammers), and with the clawlike attack characteristic of master players, he makes the most mechanical of instruments sound completely unmechanical...