Tag: Domenico Scarlatti
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The Lost Art of Frances Cole
The untimely death of harpsichordist Frances Cole at age 45 in 1983 came as a shock to the Baroque music community in New York City and the vicinity. Cole had rapidly gained a high reputation among harpsichordists and other musicians in her field. She had served for a time as a music commentator on the…
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Bayard Rustin – The Singer
Bayard Rustin was one of the most important figures in America’s civil rights movement – activism alongside A. Philip Randolph fighting discriminatory practices surrounding hiring for World War II, an organizer with Randolph of the first March on Washington in 1941, a key planner of the Freedom Rides, and an advocate of nonviolence whose ideas…
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25 Piano Favorites
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Harpsichord Favourites
“Robert Aldwinckle is an accomplished player, well known beyond early-music circles. He offers here a potpourri of familiar harpsichord pieces from the 17th and 18th centuries, intended as an introduction, which he performs on two replica instruments built by John Horniblow. The choice of repertoire ….is confidently performed.……many will be delighted to find so many…
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John Williams: Guitar Magician
A prince of the guitar has arrived in the musical world’ (Segovia) “the guitarist’s skill must be exercised rather more fully, though you would not think so from John Williams’ performance – invariably splendid; so is the recording” “I, personally, enjoy Duarte’s guitar transcriptions of the Bach Suites for cello played thus even more than…
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Baroque Cantatas & Arias
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Classics for Solo Guitar
“high voltage comes from the Villa Lobos pieces…playing here is freely inspirational, especially the evocative E minor Prelude, made to sound like distant bells tolling.. how engaging is the Tórroba Preludio while the subtle atmosphere of the Burgalesa is beautifully caught..there is a most convincing (recording) ambience….Bream’s characteristically inspirational way with Spanish repertoire, which he…
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Andres Segovia – Maestro
Segovia was in his 95th year when he died in 1987. By then he had become the most famous guitarist of his day and had been responsible for enhancing both the status and the repertoire of the guitar immeasurably. He was touring and playing right up to the end and gave his last recital in…
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Father And Son
