For some 200 years, the harpsichord was king. The Baroque composers J.S. Bach, George Frideric Handel and Domenico Scarlatti all wrote sonatas, suites and solo works for the instrument, a ...
For more than 40 years, Zuckermann Harpsichords International has operated in the seaside village of Stonington in southeastern Connecticut. It’s a small business that restores vintage harpsichords ...
One musician is determined to shake off the harpsichord’s antiquity and bring it front and centre in contemporary music. Mahan Esfahani, born in Iran, raised in the US and now resident in the Czech ...
The harpsichord is the Rolls Royce of keyboards. Dating the late middle ages, it was a status symbol of any aristocratic family during the Renaissance, and by the 1600s harpsichords were being built ...
Wolfgang Zuckermann, Harpsichord Do-It-Yourselfer, Dies at 96 As the 1950s were ending, Wolfgang Zuckermann, a piano technician and self-taught harpsichord builder, found himself so busy making ...
Harpsichordist Jory Vinikour's recording "20th Century harpsichord concertos" (Cedille Records). You might think the harpsichord is a mere historic novelty, an outdated baroque cousin of the piano and ...
FINAL Fantasy adored playing Dublin last May. Indeed, he enjoyed it so much that this intriguing one-man band swung back into town for his second Foggy Notions show of the year in Whelan's on Wexford ...
One musician is determined to shake off the harpsichord’s antiquity and bring it front and centre in contemporary music. Mahan Esfahani, born in Iran, raised in the US and now resident in the Czech ...
WASHINGTON — For some 200 years, the harpsichord was king. The Baroque composers J.S. Bach, George Frideric Handel, and Domenico Scarlatti all wrote sonatas, suites and solo works for the instrument, ...