Chit Chat: Music for Two Clavichords
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Label: Prima Facie
Cat No: PFCD214
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Chamber
Release Date: 11th August 2023
Contents
Works
Idle thoughts of owlsPieces (5) for 2 clavichords
Farewell to Stromness (arr. for 2 clavichords)
Lessons (4) for 2 keyboards, op.81
Chit Chat
Broadwood Bagatelles
Dap Dap Da Da Dap
a many-layered object
Artists
Terence Charlston (clavichord)Julian Perkins (clavichord)
Works
Idle thoughts of owlsPieces (5) for 2 clavichords
Farewell to Stromness (arr. for 2 clavichords)
Lessons (4) for 2 keyboards, op.81
Chit Chat
Broadwood Bagatelles
Dap Dap Da Da Dap
a many-layered object
Artists
Terence Charlston (clavichord)Julian Perkins (clavichord)
About
The music ranges in style from New Orleans Jazz to atonality with occasional forays into modern takes on old(er) styles. Special techniques are sometimes used to conjure up unusual sounds, such as the use of cloth wedges to strum the strings and fingers pressed against the strings to create plucking effects. While blend is important, each clavichord has a distinctive voice that enables the performers to have a musical chit-chat. Further colour is provided by the use of an unequal temperament that still allows the music to venture into distant harmonic realms.
The recording features two unfretted clavichords by two renowned makers: one based on an instrument from about 1775 by Johann Heinrich Silbermann and made by Peter Bavington in London; the other based on one by Johann Emanuel Schön, 1748 and made by Andreas Hermert in Berlin.
Terence Charlston is a performer on historical keyboard instruments, especially the clavichord which has become a focus of his recent concerts and recordings. He is Professor of Harpsichord and Chair of Historical Keyboard Instruments at the Royal College of Music in London.
In June 2023, Julian Perkins released Handel's Attick, his fourth solo clavichord recording. Based in the UK, he is the Artistic Director of the Portland Baroque Orchestra in Oregon, USA. He enjoys combining this role with that of Artistic Director of Cambridge Handel Opera and the period-instrument ensemble Sounds Baroque, in addition to his activities as a solo keyboardist/ duettist, chamber musician and director.
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