#trevorpinnock

[deborahdeshoftim5779]

Rachel Podger (violin) and Trevor Pinnock (harpsichord) play Bach’s Sonata for Violin in F Minor BWV 1018. I particularly love the Adagio, which I am trying to play on the keyboard right now (not successfully). 

[majapyon]

12 月16生まれの音楽家 ゾルターン・コダーイ トレヴァー・ピノック #音楽家の誕生日 　#似顔絵 　#musician 　#trevorpinnock #zoltankodaly #illustration https://www.instagram.com/p/B6SO7T8F0Vk/?igshid=bv9vrm4zcuc5

[markseow]

Passion 19 April 2019   Bach St Matthew Passion Dunedin Consort, led by Huw Daniel, directed by Trevor Pinnock. Soloists: Hugo Hymas, Jess Dandy, Matthias Helm, Miriam Allan, Tomáš Král, William Blake, Lina Dambrauskaite, Jessica Gillingwater The Queen’s Hall, Edinburgh, Scotland.

[oilofdog]

#ViolinConcerto Tonight on #OilOfDog with #GaryStorm on #LKCB streaming at www.lkcb.ca at 8:00 PM Eastern Time. #Vivaldi #EnglishConsort #TrevorPinnock #SimonStandage #LaTempestaDiMare #ConcertoInEFlatMajor #ClassicalMusic #Masterpiece #Music #Records #Radio #Vinyl #cat #kitty

[oilofdog]

#Classical Tonight on #OilOfDog with #GaryStorm on #PublicRadio #KSFR at http://ksfr.org/schedule/ksfr Midnight Mountain Time. #Vivaldi #ViolinConcerto #LaTempestaDiMare #Violin #Concerto in E-flat major #EnglishConsort #TrevorPinnock #SimonStandage #Baroque #BaroqueInstruments #ClassicalMusic #Music #Radio #Records #Vinyl #cat #kitty

[whoopigoldbergvariations]

Harpsichord, fuck yeah!

I was only familiar with this instrument from it’s comedic turn in Milos Forman’s Amadeus (1984) but apparently it was the standard keyboarded instrument  before the Hammerklavier (ye olde german for piano) started phasing it out in the 18th century.

Apparently because of its lack of dynamic range it annoys people, but it  reminds me of noodly guitar solo tapping à la Yngwie Malmsteen mixed with the 8-bit super Nintendo music which soundtracked most of my developmental years.

I’m told that a harpsichord/guitar comparison is fitting, as it’s mechanism actually plucks the strings, rather than ‘hammers’ them as it does inside a piano. Listen to Trevor Pinnock wail on this Goldberg Variation like some kind of harpsi-maniac lighting up the scene in 16th century Saxony.