by Barbara Harbach | Oct 26, 2021
Tres Danzas para Clavecin or Piano is a three-movement piece with a Spanish flavor and frenzied outer movements. The music anticipated Harbach’s move to the Southwest with its Spanish influences. Danza Flamenco begins with a whirling waltz with toccata-like sixteenth...
by barbarah_admin | Oct 7, 2021
This volume collects some of the most popular and widely heard harpsichord music of the twentieth century. Arnold Rosner has been called “an inventive and original voice” (The Buffalo News) and the composer of “one of the most eerily fascinating...
by barbarah_admin | Oct 7, 2021
This second volume of HMP’s Contemporary Harpsichord Series pairs two rhythmically vibrant works. Emma Lou Diemer is a well-known composer, especially admired for her keyboard works. Toccata is a perpetual motion of energy with splashes of glissandi and...
by barbarah_admin | Sep 20, 2021
This dramatic Fantasy opens with an unmeasured prelude section followed by a Toccata area of mixed meter utilizing the full range of the Keyboard. These two sections combine and intertwine before introducing the jaunty fugue subject. A slower section interrupts the...
by barbarah_admin | Sep 20, 2021
“Barbara Harbach’s own Spaindango is a rather ferocious little tour-de-force, with a faintly Spanish flavor. Despite its brevity, it makes a distinctly indelible impression.” Fanfare “Harbach plays her own Spaindango, once again to the glory of the 16ft stop....
