British Harpsichord Society

BRITISH HARPSICHORD SOCIETY RECITAL

MEDEA BINDEWALD
‘Scarlatti Fever’
Highly contagious! Rhythmic energy, repetitive patterns and daring harmonies make the harpsichord sparkle in this virtuoso
programme of keyboard sonatas by Domenico Scarlatti and his contemporaries

Handel & Hendrix in London, 25 Brook Street, London W1K 4HB

BRITISH HARPSICHORD SOCIETY RECITAL

JOCHEWED SCHWARZ
‘A Musical Journey’
Harpsichord Music by Boehm, Arne, D’Anglebert, Handel, Purcell and Bach, celebrating
the confluence of creative minds as well as the coming holiday season.

Handel & Hendrix in London, 25 Brook Street, London W1K 4HB

BRITISH HARPSICHORD SOCIETY RECITAL

SHARON GOULD
‘Cembalo, Cimbalom’
Buxtehude, Bartok, traditional Hungarian & Rumanian dances
Two Suites of ‘Cembalo’ dances and Variations by Buxtehude, alongside folk-dances collected from 17th century Hungary and 20th century Rumania, bringing colours of the traditional instrument, the ‘Cimbalom’
 
Handel & Hendrix in London, 25 Brook Street, London W1K 4HB

BRITISH HARPSICHORD SOCIETY RECITAL

MARTA LÓPEZ FERNÁNDEZ
‘Doulce Mémoire’
Music by the blind organist Antonio de Cabezón and his contemporaries in Spain explored alongside works by the English
virginalist William Byrd and the Italian virtuoso Girolamo Frescobaldi.
 
Handel & Hendrix in London, 25 Brook Street, London W1K 4HB

BRITISH HARPSICHORD SOCIETY RECITAL

LINTON POWELL
‘Dancing on the Keys’
Spain has long been a country rich in folk music, especially the region of Andalucía.  The programme featured compositions from the Martín y Coll manuscript and sonatas by Antonio Soler, Manuel Blasco de Nebra and Domenico Scarlatti, illustrating the xácara, canarios, buleria, fandango, zapateado, seguiriya, seguidilla, bolero & jota

Handel & Hendrix in London, 25 Brook Street, London W1K 4HB

BRITISH HARPSICHORD SOCIETY RECITAL

JAMES JOHNSTONE
‘An Italian, a Frenchman and two Germans walk into a bar…..’
Music from virtuosi Frescobaldi and Forqueray is coupled with more meditative
works by Kuhnau and his Leipzig successor Bach.
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Handel & Hendrix in London, 25 Brook Street, London W1K 4HB

BRITISH HARPSICHORD SOCIETY RECITAL

EMER BUCKLEY
‘Europeans!‘
Byrd, Bach, Scarlatti, Rameau and Handel’ Music  for harpsichord, expressing the notion that great composers have
always absorbed influences from elsewhere.  Music knows no frontiers.   Full programme:  05-19progEB
 
Handel & Hendrix in London, 25 Brook Street, London W1K 4HB

BRITISH HARPSICHORD SOCIETY RECITAL -part of the London Handel Festival

ROBIN BIGWOOD
‘Goldberg Variations’
Bach’s definitive, magical statement on the theme and variations form, building on similar works by his predecessors while exploring new and uncharted territories in style and musical design.
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Handel & Hendrix in London, 25 Brook Street, London W1K 4HB

BRITISH HARPSICHORD SOCIETY RECITAL -part of the London Handel Festival

MASUMI YAMAMOTO
‘Handel Revenged’
Handel was famous for including quotations from other composers. Gottlieb Muffat (1690-1770) responded by “improving” Handel’s Eight Great Suites. This programme includes Suites in F major & E minor and works from Muffat’s own Componimenti Musicali (1739). Full programme: 04a-19progMY

Handel & Hendrix in London, 25 Brook Street, London W1K 4HB

BRITISH HARPSICHORD SOCIETY RECITAL

KATARZYNA KOWALIK
‘French Collection’
A recital promoting Katarzyna Kowalik’s first solo harpsichord CD ‘French Collection’. A selection which demonstrates the variety of the French style, from noble dances to flamboyant and innovative sonority, featuring composers such us: Rameau, Moyreau, Fouquet, Royer.
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Handel & Hendrix in London, 25 Brook Street, London W1K 4HB

BRITISH HARPSICHORD SOCIETY RECITAL
ALINA RATKOWSKA
‘Finding Connections’
As the title suggests the programme looks for connections between old and contemporary musical styles. Although writing hundreds of years apart composers use the same forms and are inspired by similar things even though their musical language is very different.

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Handel & Hendrix in London, 25 Brook Street, London W1K 4HB

BRITISH HARPSICHORD SOCIETY RECITAL

CAROLE CERASI

‘The Most Beautiful B minor’
Two of the greatest keyboard pieces ever composed in B minor:  Bach’s Overture in the French style and Couperin’s 8th Ordre show the composers at their most sophisticated and profound.
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Handel House, 25 Brook Street, London W1K 4HB

MARK KROLL

‘Couperin’s 350th Birthday’
A harpsichord concert featuring several orders from the pièces de clavecin of François Couperin le Grand (1668-1733), in celebration of the 350th anniversary of his birth.

Full programme;

Handel House, 25 Brook Street, London W1K 4HB

BRITISH HARPSICHORD SOCIETY RECITAL

MICHELE BENUZZI

‘The Sunset of the Harpsichord’
‘A musician moves others only if he himself is moved: he must feel all of the emotions he wishes to stir in his listeners. In this way, they can understand his feelings and share in his emotions.’  Music by C.P.E.Bach, J.E.Altenburg, V.Karaulov, W.F.Bach and  Hässler

Handel House, 25 Brook Street, London W1K 4HB

BRITISH HARPSICHORD SOCIETY RECITAL

SATOKO DOI-LUCK

‘Hexachordum Apollinis’
Pachelbel dedicated his ‘Hexachordum Apollinis’ to Richter and Buxtehude. This programme features works by these three composers as well as works by Scheidemann, Weckmann and Böhm who influenced and were influenced by them.

Handel House, 25 Brook Street, London W1K 4HB

BRITISH HARPSICHORD SOCIETY RECITAL

OLIVER JOHN RUTHVEN
Rameau’s ‘Nouvelles Suites de Pièces de Clavecin’
His third keyboard suite, represents the apotheosis of the Baroque suite. Dance movements and character pieces combine for an intimate portrait of Rameau, the consummate dramatist.

Handel & Henrix in London, 25 Brook Street, London W1K 4HB

BRITISH HARPSICHORD SOCIETY RECITAL

JULIE PUMIR
‘A Journey through Baroque Europe’
An invitation to discover harpsichord music during the 17th and 18th centuries, its evolution and its specificities across Europe, through pieces from the work of Froberger, Couperin, Scarlatti, JS Bach and CPE Bach.

Handel & Henrix in London, 25 Brook Street, London W1K 4HB

BRITISH HARPSICHORD SOCIETY RECITAL

TOM FOSTER
‘Stein für ein Denkmal; dances and other galanteries’
A celebration of the dance suite in Germany, drawing from the monumental treasure trove that Bach inherited from his predecessors in this genre, and culminating with the magnificent fifth partita in G major

Handel & Henrix in London, 25 Brook Street, London W1K 4HB

BRITISH HARPSICHORD SOCIETY RECITAL – Part of the London Handel Festival

GILBERT ROWLAND

Friendly Duallists. –  Mattheson and Handel
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Handel & Henrix in London, 25 Brook Street, London W1K 4HB

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JULIAN PERKINS
‘Kindred Spirits’
No artist exists in a vacuum – least of all Handel. This programme celebrates an array of musical styles with which Handel was surely familiar, plus a suite that he wrote for Princess Louisa and his own arrangement of an opera overture. 03-18progJP

Handel & Henrix in London, 25 Brook Street, London W1K 4HB

BRITISH HARPSICHORD SOCIETY RECITAL

LUCIE CHABARD
‘Friends and Inspirers.’
Let yourself be drawn into a journey throughout the 17th Century Europe. From Roma to Paris through Vienna, you will be able to explore how some great composers such as Jacques Champion de Chambonnières, Johann Jakob Froberger, Girolamo Frescobaldi and Jean-Henry D’Anglebert inspired each other.       02-18progLC

Handel & Henrix in London, 25 Brook Street, London W1K 4HB

BRITISH HARPSICHORD SOCIETY RECITAL

TIM ROBERTS – Harpsichord and Clavichord

‘An Age of Experiment’
A concert of contrasts: the melancholy of two famous pavans and the virtuosity of Byrd and Blow; Rossi’s theatricality and the inward intensity of Weckmann and Cabanilles; the brilliant harpsichord and the intimate clavichord
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Handel & Henrix in London, 25 Brook Street, London W1K 4HB

BRITISH HARPSICHORD SOCIETY RECITAL

PENELOPE CAVE

‘The Parisian and the Provincial’
A varied selection of colourful and entertaining harpsichord music by François Couperin and Christophe Moyreau, enlivened by readings, to evoke early eighteenth-century Paris, Orléans and Versailles.
Download full programme here  12-17progPC

Handel & Henrix in London, 25 Brook Street, London W1K 4HB

BRITISH HARPSICHORD SOCIETY RECITAL

SONIA LEE

‘Handel & his near Contemporaries’
Music by Handel and his near contemporaries, including William Babell, John Loeillet, Thomas Roseingrave, Domenico Scarlatti, and Georg Berg, to be performed on a 1754 double manual harpsichord by Jacob Kirkman.

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Handel & Henrix in London, 25 Brook Street, London W1K 4HB

BRITISH HARPSICHORD SOCIETY RECITAL

CHAU-YEE LO

‘Lifted from Sleep’
Chau-Yee Lo’s wide-ranging recital showcases masterpieces by Louis Couperin and J.S. Bach alongside two compelling contemporary classics: Louis Andriessen’s Overture to Orpheus and Roderik de Man’s Frenzy.
Download full programme here   10-17progC-YL
Handel & Henrix in London, 25 Brook Street, London W1K 4HB

BRITISH HARPSICHORD SOCIETY RECITAL

RACHEL FACTOR & YONIT KOSOVSKE
Music for 2 Harpsichords
‘tranScripted’
Music by Weiss, Handel, Buxtehude
Download full programme here     09-17RF&YK

Handel & Henrix in London, 25 Brook Street, London W1K 4HB

BRITISH HARPSICHORD SOCIETY RECITAL

DAVID CHUNG

‘A 250 Year Journey from France to Spain’
Louis/Charles & F. Couperin, Fischer, Scarlatti, Timothy Brown and JS Bach.

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Handel & Henrix in London, 25 Brook Street, London W1K 4HB

BRITISH HARPSICHORD SOCIETY RECITAL

MEDEA BINDEWALD

‘Les Sauvages’ music by Rameau, Couperin, Tapray, Mozart
In this ravishing programme of harpsichord solo music inspired by the fascination of exotic worlds and far away countries, Medea Bindewald explores works from Rameau’s Les Sauvages (The Wild, Uncivilised) to Mozart’s famous rondo Alla Turca

Handel & Henrix in London, 25 Brook Street, London W1K 4HB

BRITISH HARPSICHORD SOCIETY RECITAL

JEAN RONDEAU
‘J S Bach: The Goldberg Variations’

Handel & Henrix in London, 25 Brook Street, London W1K 4HB

A BRITISH HARPSICHORD SOCIETY MASTERCLASS

The British Harpsichord Society welcomes a new generation of
harpsichordists with keyboard specialist Nathaniel Mander.

Handel & Henrix in London, 25 Brook Street, London W1K 4HB

BRITISH HARPSICHORD SOCIETY RECITAL

RUTA BLOOMFIELD

‘Divergent Domains: French musical Portraits & German Programme Music’
Explore multiple contrasts through music by court composer Bernard de Bury (1720-1785) and church musician Johann Kuhnau (1660-1722): France and Germany; Versailles and Leipzig; secular and sacred; suite and sonata.

Handel & Henrix in London, 25 Brook Street, London W1K 4HB

BRITISH HARPSICHORD SOCIETY RECITAL

MARTA LÓPEZ

‘The Art of Variation in Italy and France’
A programme of Italian and French keyboard music exploring the different variation forms: ciacconas, passacailles and doubles composed by Frescobaldi, Muffat, Louis Couperin, Rameau and others.
 
Handel & Henrix in London, 25 Brook Street, London W1K 4HB

BRITISH HARPSICHORD SOCIETY RECITAL

ROBIN BIGWOOD

‘Dreames and Dances’
Tomkins, Farnaby, Bull, Byrd

Handel & Henrix in London, 25 Brook Street, London W1K 4HB

BRITISH HARPSICHORD SOCIETY RECITAL

MARTYNA KAŹMIERCZAK

‘Six Strings of Apollo’
Helmont, Pachelbel, Dornel and Muffat

Handel & Henrix in London, 25 Brook Street, London W1K 4HB

A JOINT BRITISH HARPSICHORD SOCIETY & BRITISH CLAVICHORD SOCIETY RECITAL

MARIE VAN RHIJN Harpsichord and Clavichord

‘Time Machine’
Dieupart – Dodgson – Scarlatti – Ligeti,
A programme exploring bridges between the musical idiom of the keyboard music from the late 17th and early 18th centuries, and its resonances in contemporary literature. Acting like a time machine, both the clavichord and the harpsichord allow this path.
Handel & Henrix in London, 25 Brook Street, London W1K 4HB

BRITISH HARPSICHORD SOCIETY RECITAL

MASUMI YAMAMOTO

‘Bach & Fux’
A programme presenting two monumental keyboard works by Johann Joseph Fux (c1660-1741) and Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750). These pieces show the influence different national styles had on each of their compositional style.

Handel & Hendrix in London, 25 Brook Street, London W1K 4HB

BRITISH HARPSICHORD SOCIETY RECITAL

KATHARINE MAY

‘Froberger: a lasting legacy’
Born 400 years ago, J-J Froberger (1616-1667) is one of the most influential keyboard composers of the 17^th century. A contrasted selection of his works will be performed alongside pieces by his contemporaries L. Couperin and J-H d`Anglebert, and works by two composers whom he influenced, G. Muffat and J S Bach.
 

Handel & Hendrix in London, 25 Brook Street, London W1K 4HB

BRITISH HARPSICHORD SOCIETY RECITAL

MALCOLM PROUD
‘François Couperin & J. S. Bach’
Harpsichord suites by two of the greatest composers of the early
eighteenth century: François Couperin (1668-1733) and Johann
Sebastian Bach (1685-1750).

Handel & Hendrix in London,
25 Brook Street, London W1K 4HB

BRITISH HARPSICHORD SOCIETY EVENT

A Workshop for Young Players led by  NATHANIEL MANDER

The British Harpsichord Society welcomes a new generation of
harpsichordists to an afternoon masterclass with Nathaniel Mander

Handel & Hendrix in London,
25 Brook Street, London W1K 4HB

BRITISH HARPSICHORD SOCIETY RECITAL

PAWEL SIWCZAK
Please note that Pawel Siwczak was indisposed and his place
was taken at short notice by NATHANIEL MANDER

‘European Bach’
Bach drew from various traditions and this programme juxtaposes his take on an Italian Concerto, next to a suite in a French style, alongside a fantastically imaginative Chromatic Fantasia and Fugue.

Handel & Hendrix in London,
25 Brook Street, London W1K 4HB

BRITISH HARPSICHORD SOCIETY RECITAL

FRANCIS KNIGHTS & DAN TIDHAR

‘Harpsichord Duets’

J.S. Bach, Stephen Dodgson & Joanna Marsh

The Recital and Performance Room
Handel House, 25 Brook Street, London W1K 4HB
 

BRITISH HARPSICHORD SOCIETY RECITAL

JUSTYNA KREFT

‘Trip the Light Fantastic’

Handel, C.P.E. Bach & Polonaises by W.F. Bach and Polish composers
The Recital and Performance Room
Handel House, 25 Brook Street, London W1K 4HB

BRITISH HARPSICHORD SOCIETY RECITAL

CAMILLE RAVOT

‘A Harpsichord portrait in Europe of the 18^th Century’ – from the harmonic purity of the Couperins to the fickle music of CPE Bach and the virtuosity of Scarlatti.

Handel House Museum,  25 Brook Street, London W1K 4HB

BRITISH HARPSICHORD SOCIETY RECITAL

NAOKO AKUTAGAWA

‘Gottlieb Muffat and J.S. Bach’- A newly-discovered Suite by Gottlieb Muffat, a composer much favoured by Handel, is framed by two beloved masterpieces by J.S.Bach.

Handel House Museum,
25 Brook Street, London W1K 4HB

BRITISH HARPSICHORD SOCIETY RECITAL

CAROLE CERASI

‘The Splendour of Venice’
An exploration of some of the most exciting and pleasing keyboard music to come out of La Serenissima. From Picchi’s almost barbaric dances, via Storace’s imaginative and exciting ciacconas and passacaglias, to Galuppi’s elegant and lyrical sonatas, the music of Venice offers far more than just Vivaldi’s violin concertos.
The Studio, Handel House,
25 Brook Street, London W1K 4HB

BRITISH HARPSICHORD SOCIETY RECITAL

Harpsichord Masterclass led by NATHANIEL MANDER
An afternoon masterclass with keyboard specialist Nathaniel Mander.

The Studio, Handel House,
25 Brook Street, London W1K 4HB

BRITISH HARPSICHORD SOCIETY RECITAL

 
MARIE VAN RHIJN

‘Star Instruments’
The viol and the harpsichord have been the ‘star instruments’ of both the English and French schools due to their role as basso continuo. This programme offers string music transcribed for keyboard ranging from 16th century polyphony and extravagant dances by Marin Marais.

The Studio, Handel House,
25 Brook Street, London W1K 4HB

A JOINT BRITISH HARPSICHORD SOCIETY & BRITISH CLAVICHORD SOCIETY RECITAL

STEVEN DEVINE Harpsichord & Clavichord

‘The Maverick Bachs’
The music of two of JS Bach’s composer sons, CPE and WF Bach, represented by their ground-breaking approach to form and harmony pushing the boundaries of both harpsichord and clavichord writing.

 
Handel House Museum, 25 Brook Street, London W1K 4HB

BRITISH HARPSICHORD SOCIETY RECITAL

SHARON GOULD

‘In Memoriam’
Sharon Gould performs music she remembers studying with Rafael Puyana and describes the enlightenment, challenges and idiosyncrasies of lessons with this extraordinary man.

Handel House,  25 Brook Street, London W1K 4HB

BRITISH HARPSICHORD SOCIETY RECITAL

JULIAN PERKINS

‘‘A Masterly Wildness’’  J. Kelway, G. F. Handel, D. Scarlatti and S. Dodgson

‘A Masterly Wildness’ – so said Charles Burney in reference to Joseph Kelway’s playing.  This programme celebrates a genre which could perhaps be described as ‘Anglo-Scarlatti’. Daredevil hand-crossings, unpredictable figurations and plunges into exotic harmonies often vie with each other in robust rhythmic dances to create music that is both theatrical and virtuosic.

Handel House, 25 Brook Street, London W1K 4HB

BRITISH HARPSICHORD SOCIETY RECITAL

TOLGA ATALAY ÜN

Music by William Byrd, J S Bach and Duphly

Handel House, 25 Brook Street, London W1K 4HB

BRITISH HARPSICHORD SOCIETY RECITAL

ALINA RATKOWSKA

‘Musical inspiration of Johann Sebastian Bach’
Works of Georg Böhm, Johann Adam Reincken,
Dietrich Buxtehude Johann Jakob Froberger

Handel House, 25 Brook Street, London W1K 4HB

A Workshop for Young Players led by  NATHANIEL MANDER

The British Harpsichord Society welcomes a new generation
of harpsichordists to an afternoon masterclass with Nathaniel Mander.

Handel House, 25 Brook Street, London W1K 4HB

BRITISH HARPSICHORD SOCIETY RECITAL

SARA STOWE

‘Like a Virginal- English Keyboard music 1590-1760

Handel House, 25 Brook Street, London W1K 4HB

BRITISH HARPSICHORD SOCIETY RECITAL

PAOLO ZANZU.

‘Lights and shadows’
‘Sturm und Drang’ in mid C18th century German music
Music by Bach, Vivaldi-Bach, Handel and Fischer

Handel House, 25 Brook Street, London W1K 4HB

BRITISH HARPSICHORD SOCIETY RECITAL

ANHAD ARORA.

’The Singing Brook’
The Music of J.S.Bach

Handel House, 25 Brook Street, London W1K 4HB

BRITISH HARPSICHORD SOCIETY RECITAL

TOM FOSTER.

‘Bow Envy’
Transcriptions for harpsichord by J.S.Bach of works by Vivaldi, Telemann and his own Violin Sonata in A minor and a performance of BWV 971- The Italian Concerto

Handel House, 25 Brook Street, London W1K 4HB

BRITISH HARPSICHORD SOCIETY EVENT

A Workshop for Young Players led by
NATHANIEL MANDER

with performances of works by Scarlatti, Handel, Duphly and Balbastre

Handel House, 25 Brook Street, London W1K 4HB

BRITISH HARPSICHORD SOCIETY RECITAL
 
DAVID GERRARD

‘A Well-Tempered Assortment’
L. Couperin, J. S. Bach, Böhm, Pachelbel

Handel House, 25 Brook Street, London W1K 4HB

BRITISH HARPSICHORD SOCIETY RECITAL

KATARZYNA KOWALIK and PAWEL SIWCZAK

‘Double Entendre ’
Harpsichord duets by Couperin, Le Roux, Bach, Boccherini, Dodgson

Handel House, 25 Brook Street, London W1K 4HB

A BHS and BCS RECITAL

Featuring Harpsichord and Clavichord

JOHN HENRY

‘Anniversaries Present and yet to Come’
Froberger, Bach, Jacquet de la Guerre and Duphly.

Handel House, 25 Brook Street, London W1K 4HB

BRITISH HARPSICHORD SOCIETY RECITAL

KASIA TOMCZAK-FELTRIN and Friends

‘Landowska in London’

Lecture-recital, led by harpsichordist Kasia Tomczak-Feltrin who will be joined by her Polish colleagues Katarzyna Kowalik & Pawel Siwczak. Music by Handel, Couperin, Bach, Purcell & Landowska’s own compositions.

Handel House, 25 Brook Street, London W1K 4HB

BRITISH HARPSICHORD SOCIETY RECITAL

JAMES JOHNSTONE

’Winter Blues’
Froberger, Purcell, Draghi and Ritter

Handel House, 25 Brook Street, London W1K 4HB

BRITISH HARPSICHORD SOCIETY RECITAL

NATHANIEL MANDER

‘Soirée Français’
Late French Music by A-L Couperin, Duphly, Balbastre & Beauvarlet-Charpentier

Handel House, 25 Brook Street, London W1K 4HB

BRITISH HARPSICHORD SOCIETY RECITAL

ALINA ROTARU

‘Fortune My Foe’: Sweelinck

Handel House, 25 Brook Street, London W1K 4HB

BRITISH HARPSICHORD SOCIETY RECITAL

LINTON POWELL

‘Things Iberian’
Albero, Seixas, Soler, Forqueray, Couperin

Handel House, 25 Brook Street, London W1K 4HB

BRITISH HARPSICHORD SOCIETY EVENT

KENNETH WEISS
‘Vo’ far Guerra’: Bach and Handel

Handel House, 25 Brook Street, London W1K 4HB

BRITISH HARPSICHORD SOCIETY RECITAL

JANE CLARK leads an afternoon of Rameau
with Nathaniel Mander, Katarzyna Kowalik and Gilbert Rowland

Handel House, 25 Brook Street, London W1K 4HB

BRITISH HARPSICHORD SOCIETY RECITAL

REBECCA PECHEFSKY

‘Two Forgotten Masters’
Nicolas Siret and Johann Ludwig Krebs

Handel House, 25 Brook Street, London W1K 4HB

BRITISH HARPSICHORD SOCIETY RECITAL

AIDAN PHILLIPS

‘Gradus ad Parnassum’
Masterworks of the continental repertoire

J S. Bach, F. Couperin, J. Duphly, G F. Handel, J-Ph. Rameau, G. Ph.Telemann

Handel House, 25 Brook Street, London W1K 4HB

BRITISH HARPSICHORD SOCIETY RECITAL

SATOKO DOI-LUCK

‘Transmutation Through Transcription’

Forqueray & D’Anglebert, JS Bach and Geminiani

Handel House, 25 Brook Street, London W1K 4HB

BRITISH HARPSICHORD SOCIETY RECITAL

ELAINE FUNARO

‘Old and New, Tried and True’

Music of Merula, Yates, Bartok, Whetstone, and Platti.

Handel House, 25 Brook Street, London W1K 4HB

BRITISH HARPSICHORD SOCIETY EVENT

TOM FOSTER and PAWEL SIWCZAK

The music of Johann Caspar Ferdinand Fischer

Handel House, 25 Brook Street, London W1K 4HB

BRITISH HARPSICHORD SOCIETY RECITAL

IRIS PUCCIARELLI

‘Circé and the Peacock’: between metamorphosis and ostentation.

Programme includes music by Jean-Henry D’Anglebert and J.S. Bach.

Handel House, 25 Brook Street, London W1K 4HB

BRITISH HARPSICHORD SOCIETY RECITAL

KATHARINE MAY

‘From Lübeck To Stuttgart’

Music by Froberger, Buxtehude, Fischer, Krebs,
CPE Bach &  Handel

Handel House, 25 Brook Street, London W1K 4HB

BRITISH HARPSICHORD SOCIETY RECITAL

RACHEL FACTOR

Virtuosic Encounters

J.S Bach, L. Marchand, F. Couperin, G.F Handel and D. Scarlatti

Handel House, 25 Brook Street, London W1K 4HB

BRITISH HARPSICHORD SOCIETY EVENT

GILBERT ROWLAND with Masumu Yamamoto and other players

Handel’s Duellist: Johann Mattheson (1681-1764)

Handel House, 25 Brook Street, London W1K 4HB

BRITISH HARPSICHORD SOCIETY RECITAL IN ASSOCIATION
WITH THE BRITISH CLAVICHORD SOCIETY

CAROLE CERASI

More famous than Dad
Music for harpsichord and clavichord by C.P.E. Bach

Handel House, 25 Brook Street, London W1K 4HB

BRITISH HARPSICHORD SOCIETY RECITAL

YEO YAT-SOON

Melancholy and Introspection

Froberger, Louis Couperin, Frescobaldi and Purcell

Handel House, 25 Brook Street, London W1K 4HB

BRITISH HARPSICHORD SOCIETY RECITAL

 ROBYN KOH

en passant, Baroque and Beyond….
…. – Purcell, Rameau, Duphly, Frescobaldi, Scarlatti et al
with contemporary works  by Edwin McLean, Olli Mustonen,
Alan Hovhaness and Colin Riley.

Handel House, 25 Brook Street, London W1K 4HB

BHS TENTH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATIONS

RETURN VISIT TO CAMBRIDGE

Our celebrations continued with a chance for BHS members together with our Founder William Vine to see and to play the historic keyboard instruments in Christopher Hogwood’s beautiful home in Cambridge.

See report by Nicholas Newton in ‘Sounding Board’ Issue no.7, June 2013 part 1, pp 13–14  View/Download (PDF)

BRITISH HARPSICHORD SOCIETY RECITAL

JANE CHAPMAN – harpsichord
YU-WEI HU – baroque flute

‘Wild but pleasing when understood’
‘The Oriental Miscellany’ being a collection of the
most favourite airs of Hindoostan

Handel House, 25 Brook Street, London W1K 4HB

BRITISH HARPSICHORD SOCIETY EVENT

KAREN GLEN

A sense of theatre….laughter, tears and ixtxigxe!
J.S Bach’s Partita no. 3 and works by Francois Couperin

Handel House, 25 Brook Street, London W1K 4HB

BRITISH HARPSICHORD SOCIETY EVENT

TOM FOSTER with PAWEL SIWCZAK.

An exploration of the harpsichord music of
Johann Caspar Ferdinand Fischer (1656-1746).

Handel House, 25 Brook Street, London W1K 4HB

BRITISH HARPSICHORD SOCIETY RECITAL

CHARLOTTE TURNER

‘Componimenti Musicali: Perfection to Polemic’
J.S Bach, G. Muffat and F. Couperin
Les Graces Natureles
La Zenobie

Handel House, 25 Brook Street, London W1K 4HB

BRITISH HARPSICHORD SOCIETY RECITAL

MALCOLM PROUD

‘Bach Partitas’

Handel House, 25 Brook Street, London W1K 4HB

BHS TENTH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATIONS

THE BHS COMPETITION FINALS CONCERT & RECEPTION

The grand finale took place in the Painting Gallery of the Foundling Museum in London where eight internationally renowned harpsichordists played the prize winning and the highly commended compositions. Also included were harpsichord pieces written by the late Stephen Dodgson, a friend of the Society and to whom the concert was dedicated.
Performers were; Elaine Funaro, Gośka Isphording, Maggie Cole, Pamela Nash. Mahan Esfahani, Penelope Cave, Christoph Kaufmann and Jane Chapman
Composers present were; Ivan Božičević, Thomas Donahue, Satoru Ikeda, Patrick John Jones, Jung Sun Kang, Enno Kastens, Jürgen Kraus, Junghae Lee, Aled Smith, and Gavin Wayte, Unfortunately the Alessandro Ponti, the First Prize Winner was not able to be present.
The concert was followed by an informal Reception where the celebrations continued with wine and nibbles and a chance for the audience to meet the composers and performers.
See report by Pamela Nash in ‘Sounding Board’ Issue no.8, Jan. 2014- pp 7-10 View/Download (PDF)

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KATARZYNA  KOWALIK

‘French Flamboyance’

French ornate style and its influence on German composers:
Chambonnieres, d’Anglebert, Rameau, Fux and Gottlieb Muffat

Handel House, 25 Brook Street, London W1K 4HB

BHS TENTH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATIONS

 COMPOSITION COMPETITION WINNERS ANNOUNCED
First Prize: £1000
Alessandro Ponti– (Italy) for “In Fuga da Verona”
Second Prize: £500
Jung Sun Kang– (USA) for “Stick Boy and Match Girl in Love”
Joint Third Prize: £250 each
Aled Smith– (UK) for “Box Toccata”
Jurgen Kraus– (Germany) for “The Ascent of the K.517”
Highly commended (in alphabetical order)
Thomas Donahue– (USA) for “Five Shapes”
Satoru Ikeda– (Japan) for “Prism”
Patrick Jones– (UK) for “Santoor Suite”
Junghae Lee– (Switzerland) for “Improvisation sur les Ondes Chromatiques”
Gavin Wayte– (UK) for “Hot to Trot Love Bot”

See report by Pamela Nash in ‘Sounding Board’ Issue no.7, June 2013 part 1, pp 9-12
View/Download (PDF)

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NAOKO AKUTAGAWA

Muffat, Father and Son-
includes world premiere of modern performances of
recently discovered works by Georg and Gottleib Muffat.
Handel House, 25 Brook Street, London W1K 4HB

BRITISH HARPSICHORD SOCIETY EVENT

NATHANIEL MANDER,
with CAROLE CERASI and RACHEL FACTOR

The muic of Jacques Duphly

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ASAKO HIRABAYASHI

From Bach to the Third Millenium:
Bach, Couperin, Handel, Scarlatti and Hirabayashi

Handel House, 25 Brook Street, London W1K 4HB

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FRÉDÉRICK HAAS

‘Les Idées Heureuses’
Louis & François Couperin, d’Anglebert & Froberger

Handel House, 25 Brook Street, London W1K 4HB !

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MEDEA BINDEWALD

‘French elegance and Italian virtuosity’
Harpsichord music by Jacques Duphly

Handel House, 25 Brook Street, London W1K 4HB

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LAURENCE CUMMINGS

‘Mr Handel: A necromancer amidst his own enchantments…’

Handel House, 25 Brook Street, London W1K 4HB

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CHRISTOPHER BUCKNALL

‘The Most Celebrated Aires’
Transcriptions of opera arias and overtures by
Lully, Purcell, Handel and Rameau

Handel House,  25 Brook Street, London W1K 4HB

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Sadly Pamela Nash was indisposed, our thanks to
NATHANIEL MANDER
for playing a programme of JS Bach, Handel, Nicolas Fouquet,
Jacques Duphly, Claude Balbastre and W A Mozart

Handel House, 25 Brook Street, London W1K 4HB

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KATARZYNA  KOWALIK

‘Femmes fatales and Muses’. Music by women composers and portrayals of women by male composers, including works by Henry VIII, Anne Boleyn, Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre, Jean-François Dandrieu, Jacques Duphly, Johann Caspar Ferdinand Fischer, and Wanda Landowska.

Handel House, Brook Street, London WC1.

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ROBIN BIGWOOD and CAROLYN GIBLEY

Music for two harpsichords by J S & W F Bach,
Le Roux and Stephen Dodgson

Handel House, 25 Brook Street, London W1K 4HB

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NATHANIEL MANDER

‘Suites Françaises’
The French influence- music by
JS Bach, Rameau and Froberger.

Handel House, 25 Brook Street, London W1K 4HB

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JOSEPH CHESSHYRE

‘My Ladye Nevells Booke’
William Byrd 1540-1623

Handel House, Brook Street, London W1K 4HB

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LUKE GREEN

‘Dr Maurice Greene and Friends’
Greene, Porpora, Scarlatti and Handel.

Handel House, 25 Brook Street, London W1K 4HB

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A WEEKEND EVENT AT THE FOUNDLING MUSEUM

JANE CLARK, with Pawel Siwczak and Laura Tivendale,
presents an afternoon of François Couperin’s Pièces de Clavecin.

Jane is the author, with Derek Connon, of ‘The mirror of human life’: Reflections on Couperin’s Pièces de Clavecin. ‘In just a few hundred pages the authors create a compelling portrait of Couperin and his world’  Mark Kroll, writing in Early Music America, Summer 2011.

The Foundling Museum, 40 Brunswick Square, London WC1N 1AZ

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COSIMO PRONTERA

‘Keyboard composers from the Neapolitan Royal Chapel’

Handel House, 25 Brook Street, London W1K 4HB

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JULIAN PERKINS
(Photo: ©Benjamin Harte)

Handel House, 25 Brook Street, London W1K 4HB

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TOM FOSTER

‘Delight & Desire’.

Music by Randall, Farnaby, Tisdall, Tomkins and Gibbons.

Handel House, 25 Brook Street, London W1K 4HB

BHS TENTH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATIONS

BHS COMPOSITION COMPETITION ANNOUNCED

Submissions invited for compositions for solo harpsichord in a Competition to commemorate the tenth anniversary of the founding of the British Harpsichord Society. Judging Panel: Mahan Esfahani, Jane Chapman, Penelope Cave, Pamela Nash (harpsichordists), Gary Carpenter, Rob Keeley, Larry Goves (composers)

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TERENCE CHARLSTON

‘A Choice Collection’: English clavichord and harpsichord music in the 17th century

Blow, Byrd, Bryne, Draghi, Purcell

Handel House, 25 Brook Street, London W1K 4HB

BRITISH HARPSICHORD SOCIETY WEEKEND EVENT

PAWEL SIWCZAK and Friends.

The music of Froberger

Handel House, 25 Brook Street, London W1K 4HB

BRITISH HARPSICHORD SOCIETY CONCERT

ROBERT WOOLLEY

‘Made on purpose for the Organ or Harpsichord’
Music by Handel, Roseingrave, Nares, Walond, Goodwin and Greene

Handel House, 25 Brook Street, London W1K 4HB

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NATHANIEL MANDER

Foucquet, Duphly, Balbastre, Scarlatti and Mozart

Handel House, 25 Brook Street, London W1K 4HB

BRITISH HARPSICHORD SOCIETY CONCERT

KASIA TOMCZAK-FELTRIN

Handel House, 25 Brook Street, London, WC1

A BHS EVENT AT THE FOUNDLING MUSEUM

Illustrated lectures

Graham Sadler: Domenico Scarlatti visits Paris in 1724 & 1725: reflections on a probable meeting with Rameau

Jane Clark: Domenico Scarlatti: an Italian in Spain.

The Foundling Museum, 40 Brunswick Square, London WC1N 1AZ

BRITISH HARPSICHORD SOCIETY CONCERT

LAURA TIVENDALE

J S Bach, Jean-Philippe Rameau, George Frederic Handel
Jean-Henri d’Anglebert and Domenico Scarlatti

Handel House, Brook Street, London W1K 4HB

BRITISH HARPSICHORD SOCIETY CONCERT

Jane Clark, with Derek Adlam and Tom Foster, presents
an afternoon of François Couperin’s Pièces de Clavecin.

Jane is the author, with Derek Connon, of ‘The mirror of
human  life’: Reflections on Couperin’s Pièces de Clavecin.‘
 

The Foundling Museum, 40 Brunswick Square, London WC1N 1AZ

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NÉSTOR BAYONA

Scarlatti Sonata en fa menor K. 481
Scarlatti Sonata en fa major K. 525
Bach Goldberg variations

Handel House, Brook Street, London WC!

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BRITISH HARPSICHORD SOCIETY OPEN WORKSHOP

PENELOPE CAVE Experienced teacher and performer
of early keyboards  will give an open workshop on
Handel’s harpsichord  music with a group of adult students.
Auditors are welcome to attend, and bring scores if they wish.

The Foundling Museum, 40 Brunswick Square, London WC1N 1AZ
In association with the British Harpsichord Society

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PAWEL SIWCZAK

Johann Sebastian Bach 1685- 1750

Handel House, Brook Street, London W1K 4HB

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REBECCA MAURER
‘En sol – Musique pour le Roi Soleil’
F. and L. Couperin, Lully/D’Anglebert, J.N.P.Royer

Handel House, Brook Street, London WC1

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JOYCE LINDORFF
‘Perfect Vibrations’
Handel, Pasquali and Alberti

Handel House, Brook Street, London WC1

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CHARLOTTE MATTAX
‘Chacun à son goût’
Louis Couperin, d’Anglebert, Charles Noblet,
Pierre Février and Bach.

Handel House, 25 Brook Street, London W1K 4HB

BRITISH HARPSICHORD SOCIETY EVENT

PENELOPE CAVE and HELENA BROWN

‘For Two to Play:’ 4 hands and 2 harpsichords through the ages.

Handel House, 25 Brook Street, London W1K 4HB

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ALICE CHAN

‘From London to Paris and Leipzig’
Thomas Arne, Louis Couperin and J.S.Bach

Handel House, 25 Brook Street, London W1K 4HB

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LUKE GREEN

‘Snapshots and Souvenirs’
François Couperin, Bach, Howells.

Handel House, 25 Brook Street, London W1K 4HB

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KATHARINE MAY

`Le goût français`
François and Louis Couperin, Böhm,
Fischer, Froberger, J. S. Bach, Gaultier

Handel House, 25 Brook Street, London W1K 4HB

BRITISH HARPSICHORD SOCIETY WEEKEND EVENT

JANE CLARK
with ELIZABETH de la PORTE and GILBERT ROWLAND

‘Les Folies Françoises’
François Couperin

Handel House, Brook Street, London W1K 4HB

BRITISH HARPSICHORD SOCIETY RECITAL IN
ASSOCIATION  WITH THE BRITISH CLAVICHORD SOCIETY

JULIAN PERKINS Harpsichord and Clavichord

‘Handel in the Attic’
Handel, Pachelbel, Froberger, Zachow

Handel House, Brook Street, London W1K 4HB

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 ALINA RATKOWSKA

‘Variations of Goldberg’
music of Bach’s pupil Johann Gottlieb Goldberg (1727-1756)

Handel House, 25 Brook Street, London W1K 4HB

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NATHANIEL MANDER

‘Stylus Fantasticus’
Frescobaldi, Buxtehude and Bach

Handel House, 25 Brook Street, London W1K 4HB

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TOM FOSTER

‘Hop, Skip and a Jump’
Thomas Morley, Johann Sebastian Bach and Luigi Cherubini

Handel House, 25 Brook Street, London W1K 4HB

BRITISH HARPSICHORD SOCIETY WEEKEND EVENT

Presented by JANE CHAPMAN with composer in residence Duncan MacCleod.

‘New Music – New Blood’
Up and coming harpsichordists perform solo and chamber works hot off the score
by a new generation of composers.

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RONAN KHALIL

‘Andreas Bach Buch’
An anthology of North German keyboard music
J.S Bach, G.Bohm, J.C.F Fischer, M.Marais

Handel House, Brook Street, London WC1

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MICHAEL TSALKA

‘From Byrd to Bartok’
Byrd, Poglietti, Rameau, J. S. Bach-Marcello, D. G. Tuerk and Bartok.

Handel House, Brook Street, London W1K 4HB

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HILA KATZ

‘Vita Contemplativa’
Byrd, Picchi, Frescobaldi, Bach, Handel
& harpsichord pieces by the performer.

Handel House, Brook Street, London W1K 4HB

BRITISH HARPSICHORD SOCIETY EVENT

JANE CLARK, PENELOPE CAVE and LUDMILA TSCHAKALOVA

‘Les Graces Incomparables’
The music of François Couperin

Handel House, Brook Street, London W1K 4HB

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DAVID CHUNG

François Couperin, CPE Bach, JS Bach

Handel House, Brook Street, London WC1

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CAROLE CERASI

Sonatas by Domenico Scarlatti (1685-1757)

Handel House, Brook Street, London W1K 4HB

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ANDREAS SKOURAS

‘A la manière de Couperin’
A programme of Francois Couperin, Richard Strauss,
William Bolcom & Johann Sebastian Bach.

Handel House, Brook Street, London W1K 4HB