Vivaldi & Bach: Concertos for 3 & 4 Harpsichords

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This is a most enjoyable programme, with excellent notes by Mahan Esfahani and Peter Bromley. — Gramophone Magazine, December 2019

Release Date: 25th Oct 2019
Catalogue No: FHR060
Label: First Hand
Length: 83 minutes

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Vivaldi: Concerto, Op. 3 No. 11 'Con due Violini e Violoncello obligato', RV 565

Work length10:01

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Thurston Dart (harpsichord), Eileen Joyce (harpsichord), George Malcolm (harpsichord), Denis Vaughan (harpsichord)
Pro Arte Orchestra
Boris Ord

I. Allegro - Adagio

Track length1:47

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$1.30

II. Allegro

Track length2:48

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III. Largo

Track length2:44

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IV. Allegro

Track length2:42

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Bach, J S: Concerto for Four Keyboards in A minor (after Vivaldi), BWV1065

Work length9:48

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Thurston Dart, Eileen Joyce, George Malcolm, Denis Vaughan
Pro Arte Orchestra
Boris Ord

I. Allegro

Track length3:45

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II. Largo

Track length2:47

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III. Finale. Allegro

Track length3:16

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Bach, J S: Harpsichord Concerto in C Major, BWV 1064

Work length17:28

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Thurston Dart, Eileen Joyce, George Malcolm, Denis Vaughan (continuo)
Pro Arte Orchestra
Boris Ord

I. Allegro

Track length6:37

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II. Adagio

Track length6:03

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III. Allegro

Track length4:48

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Malcolm: Variations on a theme by Mozart for four harpsichords

Work length8:47

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Thurston Dart, Eileen Joyce, George Malcolm, Denis Vaughan

Sweelinck: Variations on ‘Mein junges Leben hat ein End’

Work length5:37

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Ralph Kirkpatrick

Byrd: The tennthe Paviane and Gagliarde ‘Mr W. Peter’

Work length4:43

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Ralph Kirkpatrick

No. 39, The 10th Pavian - No. 40, The Galliarde to the 10th Pavian

Track length4:43

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Froberger: Toccata No. 2

Work length3:08

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Ralph Kirkpatrick

Pachelbel: Ciaconna

Work length3:51

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Ralph Kirkpatrick

Bach, J S: Cantata BWV6 'Bleib bei uns, denn es will Abend werden'

Work length20:25

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Marjorie Thomas (contralto), David Galliver (tenor)
Bach Choir, Jacques Orchestra
Reginald Jacques

I. Bide With Us

Track length6:39

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II. Thou, Whose Praises Never End

Track length4:12

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III. O Bide With Us, Thou Saviour Dear

Track length4:38

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V. Lord, to Us Thyself Be Shewing

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VI. Lord Jesu Christ, Thy Power Display

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Early stereo recordings, Vol. 2 (recorded 1954 and 1956) is the third of at least five volumes of EMI early stereophonic recordings, released in a joint venture with the Archive of Recorded Sound (ARS). The album includes the first releases in stereo of Vivaldi arr. Thurston Dart Concerto for 4 Harpsichords and Strings in D minor, the first release on CD of Vivaldi arr. Johann Sebastian Bach Concerto for 4 Harpsichords and Strings in A minor, BWV 1065 and the earliest stereo recording of The Bach Choir with the first release in any format of Bach’s Cantata, BWV 6.

EMI started to record in stereo in 1954 and all the recordings in this new series are from this historic period of recorded music. All the releases will appear for the first time in some form and feature many of the greatest classical artists of the time. Popular classical music figures of the mid-twentieth century, the artists on this disc would have been particularly familiar to the British concertgoer in this period.

George Malcolm, equally proficient as a conductor, pianist and composer and who with his unique brilliance brought the harpsichord to a place of universal respect in the concert hall; Thurston Dart was a eminent English musicologist, keyboard player and conductor; Ralph Kirkpatrick was celebrated American harpsichordist whose manner at the manner at the harpsichord is of a completely different sensibility than the others on this issue, from the flamboyant, Technicolor approach so enthusiastically championed by his British colleagues.

You could call this album a harpsichord extravaganza - indeed in George Malcolm’s ingratiating and inspired Variations on a Theme by Mozart for Four Harpsichords the instruments are shown-off superbly, and also in the splendid arrangement of Vivaldi’s Concerto in A minor, Op. 3/11 by Thurston Dart. The Bach Cantata No. 6 recording is a recent discovery and is the Bach Choir’s earliest recording in stereo.

The main booklet notes in this issue are written by eminent harpsichordist Mahan Esfahani.

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December 2019

This is a most enjoyable programme, with excellent notes by Mahan Esfahani and Peter Bromley.

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