Trevor Pinnock: Journey - Two Hundred Years of Harpsichord Music | Linn CKD570

Trevor Pinnock: Journey - Two Hundred Years of Harpsichord Music

Label: Linn

Cat No: CKD570

Format: Hybrid SACD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Instrumental

Release Date: 19th February 2016

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This unique harpsichord recital by Trevor Pinnock charts two incredible musical journeys four hundred years apart. Inspired by the travels of Antonio Cabezón, the sixteenth-century organist and composer, Pinnock’s programme weaves a path not only through Cabezón’s life but also through his own enviable career. In celebration of his seventieth birthday, Pinnock has chosen a personal selection of works that evoke vivid memories from different stages of his life.

Success in their respective careers led both Pinnock and Cabezón to travel widely; Cabezón’s journeys through Europe resulted in meetings with several of the composers included in this programme. Pinnock performs repertoire spanning two hundred years (encompassing works by Tallis, Byrd, Bull, Sweelinck, Bach, Frescobaldi, Handel and Scarlatti) on his favourite home instrument, a harpsichord made in 1982 after a model by the mid eighteenth-century French builder, Henri Hemsch.

Pinnock’s own journey has seen him recognized as one of the finest players of his generation, receiving many prizes and international recognition along the way whilst amassing an exceptional discography; his truly is an epic journey.

Trevor Pinnock is known worldwide as a harpsichordist and conductor who pioneered performance on historical instruments with The English Concert, the orchestra he founded and led for thirty years. In 2006 Pinnock founded the European Brandenburg Ensemble to celebrate his sixtieth birthday. Their recording of Bach’s Brandenburg Concertos was awarded a 2008 Gramophone Award.

As a solo harpsichordist Pinnock has recorded Bach’s Partitas and Toccatas, and Handel’s Suites for harpsichord. An important part of Pinnock’s work is with students of the Royal Academy of Music, whom he conducts in concert and opera. With the RAM Soloists Ensemble he has recorded three albums for Linn.

‘Pinnock's prime virtues as a harpsichordist are his fluid technique and fine sensibility.’ - New York Times

‘Full-time harpsichordists would sell their souls to match the elegant turns, firmly centered contrapuntal playing, and inhumanly even trills Pinnock commands with little surface effort.’ - Classics Today

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Trevor Pinnock has assembled a quirky and intensely personal collection spanning two centuries of music and revisiting his career [...] At the recital’s heart is a wonderfully wistful account of Sweelinck’s deeply touching variations on Mein junges Leben hat ein End, as if Pinnock is bidding farewell to his creative performing life – but let’s hope there is more to come from this supremely musical player. Nicholas Kenyon
The Observer 14 February 2016
The programme is rich in expressive contrasts and diverse musical forms in which dance and variation occupy a position of importance. Pinnock’s playing feels more reflective and relaxed than it has sometimes seemed in earlier recitals. This is especially rewarding in his limpid account of Bach’s E major French Suite. He has always had an infectious way with dance rhythms and in this Suite with its profusion of galanteries his playing is at its most alluring. The Scarlatti sonatas, too, come over well, especially where a bravura element is present. Pinnock responds with spontaneity while at the same time communicating a sense of colour and pageant.  Nicholas Anderson
BBC Music Magazine April 2016

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