Thursday

2nd September 2021

12.30 lunchtime

Yeo Yat-Soon

harpsichord


Programme


Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Fantasia in C minor BWV 906 (c1738)


Anon, from the Robertsbridge Codex, (c1370)
Estampie    a courtly dance, possibly with sliding steps


Antonio de Cabezòn (1510-1566)
Diferencias sobre El Canto del Caballero (pub 1578)
    variations on "The Song of the Gentleman (or Cavalier)"


Girolamo Frescobaldi (1583-1643)
Cento Partite sopra Passacagli (pub 1637)
     A hundred variations on passacaglias ?


Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Allegro in G minor K15-     (1764-65)


Thomas Tomkins (1572-1656)
A Sad Pavin for these Distracted Times (14 Feb 1649, following execution of Charles I)


Johann Jakob Froberger (1616-1667)
Plainte faite à Londres pour passer la Mélancholie
laquelle se joue lentement ave discrétion (c1650s)


George Frideric Handel (1685-1759)
from Suite de Pièces de Clavecin (1720) HWV 432
    6 Passacaille in G minor



Concert duration approx:  45 minutes


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Recordings of the works in today's concert

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Fantasia in C minor BWV 906 (c1738)


performed by Masato Suzuki, for the Netherlands Bach Society's "All BACH" project, on the harpsichord: Willem Kroesbergen, Utrecht 1987 after J. Couchet

Anon, from the Robertsbridge Codex, (c1370)
Estampie    a courtly dance, possibly with sliding steps


This is not an exact match but it will give you the feel of an Estampie of the period.
The recording is by Arany Zoltanwho has a facebook page and his own YouTube channel.

Antonio de Cabezòn (1510-1566)
Diferencias sobre El Canto del Caballero (pub 1578)
    variations on "The Song of the Gentleman (or Cavalier)"

If you would like to follow the music, first, on the left, is a performance by Robert Schroeter

On the right, Victor Baena plays the same work on Pedro de Echevarria's 1728 house or chamber organ, in the Museo Arqueológico Nacional, Madrid, Spain

Girolamo Frescobaldi (1583-1643)
Cento Partite sopra Passacagli (pub 1637)
     A hundred variations on passacaglias


Here the performer is Bob van Asperen, harpsichordist and teacher

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Allegro in G minor K15-     (1764-65)


There is very little description for this recording, but it seems to be on a fortepiano of the period (or a copy) and the performer here is Anna Lena Leyfeldt

Thomas Tomkins (1572-1656)
A Sad Pavin for these Distracted Times
(14 Feb 1649, following execution of Charles I)


Here the harpsichordist is Sabine Bauer who is playing the Giovanni Natale Boccalari harpsichord, built in 1699 in Naples, and restored in 2019.

Johann Jakob Froberger (1616-1667)
Plainte faite à Londres pour passer la Mélancholie
laquelle se joue lentement ave discrétion (c1650s)


Julia Tamminen is the harpsichordist in this recording from St Martin's Church (Martinskeurakunnalle), in Turku, a city on the south west coast of Finland

George Frideric Handel (1685-1759)
from Suite de Pièces de Clavecin (1720) HWV 432
    6 Passacaille in G minor

This is a performance by Brazilian harpsichordist Fernando Cordella whose vibrant playing attracted this review from admirer George Sherrill:

A performance of true beauty and feeling! And a harpsichordist who doesn’t play like robot! Magnificent!

Next Thursday's concert
Thomas Ang, piano, plays Nikolai Medtner, Clara Faißt, and Samuel Coleridge-Taylor - click here
Last Thursday's concert
Lavinia Vlad, violin and Thomas Ang, piano, works by Mozart & César Franck - click here