Early Music Today Magazine Sept - Nov 2014 Vorige editie

Nine years after fulfilling her dream of committing all of Bach’s keyboard works to disc, Canadian pianist Angela Hewitt discusses her long-awaited recording of Bach’s The Art of Fugue; we investigate the often overlooked art of harpsichord decoration; and in the year of his 70th birthday Anthony Rooley reminisces about his life and career as a lutenist. Plus, Lucie Skeaping looks into the influence of Jewish folk music on composers of the Baroque; Richard Egarr, the musicians’ musician, waxes lyrical about Monteverdi’s dramatic writing ahead of the Academy of Ancient Music’s performance of L’incoronazione di Poppea; a meeting of music and espionage at the court of Henry VIII; harpsichord player David Wright; find out what’s lined up for this year’s Brighton Early Music Festival and Brecon Baroque; the Horniman Museum’s ‘Roots of Revival’ conference explores the beginnings of the early music movement; Countertenor Raffaele Pè; Q&A with La Nuova Musica founder David Bates; and your chance to win tickets to the Royal Greenwich International Early Music Festival.