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Recording News from Divine Art: 200 Years of Early French Keyboard Music
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July 29, 2015
Recording News from Divine Art: 200 Years of Early French keyboard music
Terence Charlston explores sixteenth- and seventeenth-century French keyboard music through the touch and sound of the clavichord in his new recording for Divine Art Records (dda 25134). Despite modern players and makers attaching little importance to the role of the clavichord in the development of French keyboard music, the instrument was highly valued within late-renaissance culture and continued to be used by musicians into the seventeenth century and later. The album contains one piece (the well known Toccata in C by Sweelinck) which was not written in France but was popular there. [A full track list is attached for information.]
Charlston recorded this historic program of keyboard works on a reconstruction of the clavichord described in Marin Mersenne’s Harmonie Universelle. Peter Bavington built the clavichord, using Mersenne’s text and accompanying engraving as a guide. Bavington studied early keyboard instrument making and restoration at the London College of Furniture (now London Metropolitan University) and later earned his Higher National Diploma in Musical Instrument Technology. His customers have included the Royal Academy of Music, the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and the Hochschule der Künste Berlin.
Born in Blackpool, Lancashire, Terence Charlston enjoys a varied career as a soloist, chamber musician, director, teacher and academic researcher. He can be heard on nearly 100 commercial CDs playing all manner of historical keyboards including virginal, clavichord and fortepiano. He was a member of London Baroque from 1995 until 2007 and is a core member of the ensemble Florilegium. He has recently recorded with the Magdalena Consort and is a member of The Society of Strange and Ancient Instruments. He was a Patron and Guest Director of the Lancashire Sinfonietta from 2009 until 2015.
An authority on English and continental Baroque keyboard music, he has been responsible for many pioneering concerts, recordings and editions. As a respected advocate of early keyboard instruments within the educational sphere, he has taught harpsichord and basso continuo at the Royal Academy of Music in London since 1989 and founded its Department of Historical Performance in 1995. He joined the staff of the Royal College of Music, London as professor of harpsichord in 2007, and in 2009 he was appointed Visiting Fellow in Harpsichord at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester, where he is now International Visiting Tutor in Harpsichord.
The recording will be released this November.
END.
Photos attached (2) Terence Charlston CD cover
Track list: The sixteenth century 1 Sancta Trinitas (Antoine de Févin) 2 Prélude sur chacun ton (anon.) 3 Longtemps y a que je vis en espoire (anon.) 4 La Magdalena (Pierre Blondeau?) 5 Prélude (anon.) – Fantasie (Guillaume Costeley) – Hors envyeux (Nicolas Gombert) 6 La Bounette (anon.) 7 Gamba Gagliarda – Moneghina Gagliarda (Antoine Gardane?) 8 Prélude (Pierre Megnier) – Pavane (Jacques Cellier)
The early seventeenth century 9 5 pieces: Canaries – Borree – Volte appellee la Marcielleze – Pavane de Aranda – Fantasie sur l’air de ma Bergerer (anon.) 10 Fantaisie (Charles Racquet) 11 Tu crois, ô Beau Soleil (Pierre [iii] de la Barre) 12 Praeludium – Volte (Mercure d’Orléans) 13 4 Preludes (anon.) 14 Toccata in C (Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck) 15 5 pieces: Bergamasca – Gavotte – Courante ‘La Chabotte’ – ‘Hereux séjour de Partenisse’ (Boësset) – Bransle ‘Les Frondeurs’ (Pinel) 16 Echo in F (Gérard Scronx)
The later seventeenth century 17 Prélude in D minor (Jean Henry D’Anglebert) 18 Sarabande in A minor (Jacques Champion, Sieur de Chambonnières) 19 Duo (Louis Couperin) 20 Recit à trois (Nicolas Gigault) 21 Laissez paistre vos Bestes (Nicolas Lebègue)
Terence Charlston and Peter Bavington may be available for interview, please inquire. This press release may be printed in whole or in part. For further information, please contact Kathryn Marshall at the USA address below, kathryn@divineartrecords.com or 1-802-247-4295
All Divine Art recordings are available at the company’s online store which also provides track listings, reviews and artist profiles: www.divineartrecords.com
CDs are distributed to dealers worldwide through Naxos and are also available as digital downloads (most in HD quality) via Classics Online, iTunes and Amazon.
Issued by Divine Art Recordings Group Compass Music and Arts Center, 333 Jones Drive, Brandon, VT 05733, USA 802-247-4295
Recording News from Divine Art: 200 Years of Early French keyboard music
Terence Charlston explores sixteenth- and seventeenth-century French keyboard music through the touch and sound of the clavichord in his new recording for Divine Art Records (dda 25134). Despite modern players and makers attaching little importance to the role of the clavichord in the development of French keyboard music, the instrument was highly valued within late-renaissance culture and continued to be used by musicians into the seventeenth century and later. The album contains one piece (the well known Toccata in C by Sweelinck) which was not written in France but was popular there. [A full track list is attached for information.]
Charlston recorded this historic program of keyboard works on a reconstruction of the clavichord described in Marin Mersenne’s Harmonie Universelle. Peter Bavington built the clavichord, using Mersenne’s text and accompanying engraving as a guide. Bavington studied early keyboard instrument making and restoration at the London College of Furniture (now London Metropolitan University) and later earned his Higher National Diploma in Musical Instrument Technology. His customers have included the Royal Academy of Music, the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and the Hochschule der Künste Berlin.
Born in Blackpool, Lancashire, Terence Charlston enjoys a varied career as a soloist, chamber musician, director, teacher and academic researcher. He can be heard on nearly 100 commercial CDs playing all manner of historical keyboards including virginal, clavichord and fortepiano. He was a member of London Baroque from 1995 until 2007 and is a core member of the ensemble Florilegium. He has recently recorded with the Magdalena Consort and is a member of The Society of Strange and Ancient Instruments. He was a Patron and Guest Director of the Lancashire Sinfonietta from 2009 until 2015.
An authority on English and continental Baroque keyboard music, he has been responsible for many pioneering concerts, recordings and editions. As a respected advocate of early keyboard instruments within the educational sphere, he has taught harpsichord and basso continuo at the Royal Academy of Music in London since 1989 and founded its Department of Historical Performance in 1995. He joined the staff of the Royal College of Music, London as professor of harpsichord in 2007, and in 2009 he was appointed Visiting Fellow in Harpsichord at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester, where he is now International Visiting Tutor in Harpsichord.
The recording will be released this November.
END.
Photos attached (2) Terence Charlston CD cover
Track list: The sixteenth century 1 Sancta Trinitas (Antoine de Févin) 2 Prélude sur chacun ton (anon.) 3 Longtemps y a que je vis en espoire (anon.) 4 La Magdalena (Pierre Blondeau?) 5 Prélude (anon.) – Fantasie (Guillaume Costeley) – Hors envyeux (Nicolas Gombert) 6 La Bounette (anon.) 7 Gamba Gagliarda – Moneghina Gagliarda (Antoine Gardane?) 8 Prélude (Pierre Megnier) – Pavane (Jacques Cellier)
The early seventeenth century 9 5 pieces: Canaries – Borree – Volte appellee la Marcielleze – Pavane de Aranda – Fantasie sur l’air de ma Bergerer (anon.) 10 Fantaisie (Charles Racquet) 11 Tu crois, ô Beau Soleil (Pierre [iii] de la Barre) 12 Praeludium – Volte (Mercure d’Orléans) 13 4 Preludes (anon.) 14 Toccata in C (Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck) 15 5 pieces: Bergamasca – Gavotte – Courante ‘La Chabotte’ – ‘Hereux séjour de Partenisse’ (Boësset) – Bransle ‘Les Frondeurs’ (Pinel) 16 Echo in F (Gérard Scronx)
The later seventeenth century 17 Prélude in D minor (Jean Henry D’Anglebert) 18 Sarabande in A minor (Jacques Champion, Sieur de Chambonnières) 19 Duo (Louis Couperin) 20 Recit à trois (Nicolas Gigault) 21 Laissez paistre vos Bestes (Nicolas Lebègue)
Terence Charlston and Peter Bavington may be available for interview, please inquire. This press release may be printed in whole or in part. For further information, please contact Kathryn Marshall at the USA address below, kathryn@divineartrecords.com or 1-802-247-4295
All Divine Art recordings are available at the company’s online store which also provides track listings, reviews and artist profiles: www.divineartrecords.com
CDs are distributed to dealers worldwide through Naxos and are also available as digital downloads (most in HD quality) via Classics Online, iTunes and Amazon.
Issued by Divine Art Recordings Group Compass Music and Arts Center, 333 Jones Drive, Brandon, VT 05733, USA 802-247-4295
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