From Roman gods to planets – 'Jupiter' by an C18th composer? #classicalmusic #planets #harpsichord
· 08.03.2024 · 16:41:56 ··· ··· Friday ·· 5 (5)
CRD Records Melody Lin dazzles with virtuosic fireworks on the harpsichord on her debut album.
Here, we have a snippet from Antoine Forqueray's 1747 suite, which includes a work entitled 'Jupiter.
Prof. Robert Zappulla writes:
'[This track] contains a very active left-hand part, swift registral changes, and
convoluted rhythmic passages. Jupiter, undoubtedly an allusion to the
Roman god, is the longest and technically most arduous movement in
the suite, with a terrifically active right-hand part and a final couple
that contains tremolos and exhaustive scalar and arpeggio figuration
in thirty-second- and sixty-fourth-note values that conjure the image
of divine thunderbolts.'
Global release: 3 May 2024
Pre-save album link: https://orcd.co/vhmlin
Listen to other singles already out:
https://orcd.co/linforqueray
https://orcd.co/forquerayguignon
https://orcd.co/jupiterlin
Listen to the next single (5th April) La Rameau. https://orcd.co/rameaulin
CRD writes:
The harpsichord often gets overlooked, undeservedly so. It is an instrument that takes no prisoners; it demands precision and craft, musical sensitivity and more. In Melody Lin’s performances, the rewards are great: as listeners, we are treated to the translation of black dots to bursts of exuberant colour, from elegance to joy to thunderous expressions of foreboding. If the music were to be represented in film, we would move from calm, pastoral scenes to mountainous terrain. This is in fact riveting cinema. We hope you enjoy the views.
Robert Zappulla, Professor of Music, Claremont Graduate University, California, writes:
"The music performed by Melody on the present recording comprises a painstaking selection of technically exacting pieces that span the entire period of Baroque harpsichord composition as well as an array of genres and styles. The title Virtuoso Harpsichord Music is fully warranted here; each of the works performed contains at least one intimidating passage or section that would be the source of consternation for most harpsichordists.
#classicalmusic #virtuosos #harpsichordbaroquepieces #harpsichord
Global release: 3 May 2024
Executive Producers: Emma Pauncefort, Tom Pauncefort
www.crdrecords.com
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