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 10, 2021
Elisabetta de Gambarini (1731-1765) was an English composer, soprano, and orchestra conductor. She published three volumes of harpsichord music. The subscription list from the original 1747 publication, attests to the popularity of Gambarini’s music, naming over 200...
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 | Oct 7, 2021
This set of short pieces was written for Fernando Valenti who premiered them in 1969. Robert Starer, considering these pieces to be exclusively ValentiÕs, decided only recently to allow their publication. Each title reflects a different mood of ValentiÕs.
