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Re: GG: Harpsichord Playing
- To: f_minor@gandalf.rutgers.edu
- Subject: Re: GG: Harpsichord Playing
- From: Christy Leung <christle@unixg.ubc.ca>
- Date: Wed, 24 Apr 1996 16:09:49 -0700 (PDT)
- In-reply-to: <M3741466.031.df99t.1.960424143712Z.CC-MAIL*/O=HQ/PRMD=USDOE/ADMD=ATTMAIL/C=US/@MHS>
Hello all!
On 24 Apr 1996 PHILIP.GARON@hq.doe.gov wrote:
>
> John Mansfield wrote:
>
> > There is a commercial recording of GG doing four of the Handel
> > harpsichord suites. I am not very fond of it, but then-I am
> > not very fond of the harpsichord.
>
> Wasn't it Sir Thomas Beecham who said that the sound of the
> harpsichord reminded him of two skeletons copulating on a tin
> roof?
Well, sounds like he didn't hear the harpsicord being played very well!
The harpsicord is a very beautiful, delicate instrument, but it seems to
be very difficult to play it well. I've done quite a bit of listening to
harpsicord performances recently and the majority of them aren't very
good - slow, labourous, BORING! But there was one artist that I really
enjoyed called Igor Kipnis. His playing is full of fire and verve. I
heard several of his recordings on LP and I don't know if they're out on
CD. If you can get a hold of some of his recordings, try him out! In
particular, his performance of the Sinfonia from the C minor partita is
excellent.
Christy