When did people first conceive the idea of combining a plucked instrument with a keyboard? What kind of music was written for it then — and what is written for it today? How does the Italian harpsichord differ from the Flemish one, and why are two manuals needed?
Elena Khurgina explores all these questions and more in her lecture recital HPSCHD: From the Renaissance to the Present.
Program
Elisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre (1665 — 1729)
Suite in d Minor aus Pièces de clavecin, Livre 1, 1687. Prélude
Antoine Forqueray (1672 – 1745) / Jean-Baptiste-Antoine Forqueray (1699–1782)
Suite No.5, c Moll, erste Publikation 1747
La Rameau (Majestueusement) — La Sylva (très tendrement) — Jupiter (Modérément)
Tōru Takemitsu (1930 – 1996)
Rain dreaming, 1986
György Ligeti (1923 – 2006)
Passacaglia ungherese, 1978
Die verliebte Nachtigall, 2026. World Premiere
