© Tilman Skowroneck June 2021
I’ve recently added an antique French (anonymous) pardessus de viole (located in Paris) on my “sales” page, and updated the information on the English bentside spinet made by Martin Skowroneck in 1968. I am also listing an Italian harpsichord for sale in The Netherlands. The “sales” page is being updated regularly.
© Tilman Skowroneck 2021
Edited June 30, 2021. Here are a few pieces from Forqueray’s first suite in D-minor. I was originally planning to home-record the entire suite but the acoustics here in the living room are compromised and also I got embroiled in other projects, so I’m keeping it at the first three for the time being.
I’ve always loved this suite especially, possibly because it’s the first suite by Forqueray I ever heard …
La Laborde, recorded 20 May 2020.
La Forqueray, recorded 7 June 2020.
La Cottin, recorded 3 July 2020
May 14, 2020
Today six years ago, Martin Skowroneck passed away. He would have been 93 years old now. I made a spontaneous–after-dinner-recording in his memory of one of my favorite pieces, the Prélude in D by Jean – Henry D’Anglebert.
Later tonight, we will celebrate him by filling, lifting, and emptying, a glass in his memory. I know he would have wanted that.
In my second stay-at-home video, I play J.Ph. Rameau’s Les Cyclopes, a piece that is good for encores but dangerous to play when too tired (so it’s always good to have an alternative ready!).
I spent two of the last days in March 2020 before the (comparatively moderate, but still) Swedish coronavirus-stay-at-home recommendations went live, recording a harpsichord program with music by François Couperin. The program contains the first Prélude in C-major and selections from the third Ordre in C-minor from book 1 of the Pièces de Clavecin; the second Prélude in D-major and selections from the second Ordre, and the sixth Prélude in B-minor and the entire magnificent eighth Ordre in B-minor.
Two sound samples are here (Second Ordre, La Terpsicore and La Garnier:
The recording was made in Ödenäs church on March 4 and 5, 2020, by Erik Sikkema. The Harpsichord is a 18th-century French model (5 octaves) by Martin Skowroneck (1980). Read the rest of this entry »
© Tilman Skowroneck April 2020
My newest CD with works by J.S. Bach is now available on the German label TYXart.
The program includes the Sixth English Suite BWV 811, The Prelude, Fugue and Allegro in E-flat major BWV 998 and Gustav Leonhardt’s version of the Second Violin Partita BWV 1004 which ends with the famous Ciaccona, about which I have previously written in this post. Two sound examples can be found inside this post. Read the rest of this entry »
