Back in the 1980s, I befriended the matriarch of a prosperous Cincinnati family. Helen was in her nineties and in the 1920s she had studied music at the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music. Helen had numerous tales of how cruel Bertha Baur – the head of the Conservatory – was, echoing similar stories that I’d heard […]
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Bernard Cuiller plays William Byrd
Pescodd Time is part of Alpha Classic’s ongoing reissue series of significant early music recordings. The disc was the first recorded by harpsichordist and conductor Bertrand Cuiller and showcases his love of English renaissance music — particularly that of William Byrd. I don’t have the original release, so I can’t say if it’s been remastered. […]
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Anna Bon di Venezia: Harpsichord Sonatas a Welcome Rediscovery
Anna Bon di Venezia is a somewhat mysterious figure — very little is known about her, save that she, along with her parents (a stage manager and an opera singer) were hired by Count Esterhazy, where (presumably) they worked under his Kappellmeister, Franz Joseph Haydn.Anna Bon published a set of flute sonatas, a set of […]