Richard Jones - Sets of Lessons for the Harpsichord
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Label: Glossa
Cat No: GCD921805
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 2
Genre: Instrumental
Release Date: 23rd August 2010
Contents
Artists
Mitzi Meyerson (harpsichord)About
The American harpsichordist Mitzi Meyerson, after brilliant forays into the music of Claude-Bénigne Balbastre and Gottlieb Muffat, now presents for the first time a complete recording of Jones’ Suits or Setts of Lessons for the Harpsicord or Spinnet (sic), a collection of pieces which is English Baroque at its finest. This music was much loved when it was composed, but could not compete with George Frideric Handel’s ovewhelming popularity in England at the time, a fact which caused Jones and many of his English-born contemporaries to virtually disappear in the shadows.
Meyerson, in the interview included in the booklet, mentions that in the compositions of Richard Jones she hears “many influences - the depth of Johann Sebastian Bach, the wildness of Vivaldi, and the fresh tunefulness of Purcell”.
A great discovery which deserves to be enjoyed by all lovers of Baroque keyboard music.
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