{"id":1429,"date":"2015-10-15T14:33:25","date_gmt":"2015-10-15T14:33:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/music\/?p=1429"},"modified":"2015-12-08T20:25:03","modified_gmt":"2015-12-08T20:25:03","slug":"new-recording-of-modern-harpsichord","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/music\/2015\/10\/15\/new-recording-of-modern-harpsichord\/","title":{"rendered":"New recording of modern harpsichord"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"2538239_orig\"<\/a>
Photo: Drew Kelly<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We\u2019re delighted to congratulate Southampton postgraduate research student Christopher Lewis on the release of his new CD on the Naxos label<\/a>.\u00a0 Christopher specialises in music for the revival harpsichord, and his PhD work is part of the “Making of the Modern Harpsichord<\/a>” project sponsored by the Arts and Humanities Research Council and the National Trust.<\/p>\n

One of the pioneers of the 20th-century resurrection of interest in the harpsichord was the great virtuoso Wanda Landowska, who assisted in the development of a harpsichord built by Pleyel of Paris. Performing on a newly restored 1930s Pleyel harpsichord (pictured above), Christopher\u00a0 has chosen a programme of 20th-century works by French or French-based composers. Poulenc\u2019s colourful Suite fran\u00e7aise<\/em> is followed by Fran\u00e7aix\u2019s exciting and previously unrecorded Deux Pi\u00e8ces<\/em>. Martin\u016f\u2019s lyricism and intensity of expression can be heard in the Sonata and other pieces while Louis Durey\u2019s piquant Dix Inventions<\/em> is both a homage to Bach\u2019s Two-Part Inventions and a work whose compositional technique is firmly rooted in the modern era.\u00a0 You can listen to a podcast about the recording (along with some sample tracks) on the Naxos website<\/a>. And here’s an excellent review <\/a>that appeared in Gramophone<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

The new recording joins a disc of harpsichord concertos released last year.\u00a0 Two further releases with Naxos are scheduled, one of the complete harpsichord works of American composer Vincent Persichetti, and another (linked to his PhD work at Southampton) of modern British harpsichord compositions.\u00a0 See Chris’s website<\/a> for more details on these and other projects.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We\u2019re delighted to congratulate Southampton postgraduate research student Christopher Lewis on the release of his new CD on the Naxos label.\u00a0 Christopher specialises in music for the revival harpsichord, and his PhD work is part of the “Making of the Modern Harpsichord” project sponsored by the Arts and Humanities Research Council and the National Trust. One of the pioneers of …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":73437,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6494,522519,207,65478],"tags":[643754,643756],"class_list":["post-1429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-musicology","category-performance","category-postgraduate","tag-christopher-lewis","tag-the-making-of-the-modern-harpsichord","column","threecol"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3YgXZ-n3","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/73437"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1429"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1505,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1429\/revisions\/1505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}