When good musicians get together and jam in the worlds of pop or jazz, it's called an exciting event. When they do it in the classical world, it's called a crossover. As the indie mentality gradually ...
Revelatory Mahan Esfahani, Keith Jarrett live in 1987 and Olivier Latry at the Proms Now that we so often hear Bach’s keyboard works played on the piano (and the debate about whether it’s even ...
On September 20, The Hartt School at the University of Hartford will unveil the newest instrument in its collection: a harpsichord custom built by Norfolk, Connecticut resident Carl Dudash. To mark ...
This album of modern pieces for harpsichord will completely upend your idea of the instrument Ivan Hewett is The Telegraph’s Classical Music Critic and an author whose works include Music: Healing The ...
On Jan. 24, ALLISON — mezzo-soprano Allison Messier and harpsichordist Paul Cienniwa — performs at Quincy’s Thomas Crane Public Library. The duo’s raison d’être, re-interpreting rock and popular ...
What is it? The simplest explanation would be that it's a piano, but with the strings plucked rather than struck, although the harpsichord actually predates the piano. Who uses it? Chiefly associated ...
This is the fourth in a series of posts about appreciating classical music. Catch up on the first three parts of the series here, here and here. Though its name sounds archaic, the harpsichord is a ...
From the cover of The Harpsichord Diaries: A Musical Journey, a children's picture book by Elaine Funaro, Eric Love and Andrea Love (Horse & Buggy Press) Even with just a few notes, the harpsichord’s ...
If you know Bach’s Goldberg Variations only through the eternally best-selling recordings by Glenn Gould, you have not really heard the work. Gould was a brilliant but idiosyncratic player whose ...
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