Harpsichord
Clearing House
at the Boston Early Music Festival
& Exhibition,
June 13 to 19, 2005.
2005 marked the thirty-sixth year of the Harpsichord Clearing House, now the largest provider of early keyboard instruments in North America. We celebrated this anniversary at BEMF by presenting some of the finest instruments from our gallery in the Dartmouth Room on the sixth floor of the Radisson Hotel.
Some
of our finest instruments
Our "to bring" list included a Taskin French double by Hubbard
Harpsichords, 1992, a Goermans/Taskin double by Bizzi, 2003, a Flemish
single by Hubbard & Broekman, 1987, an Italian continuo instrument by
Klop, 2004, a Hass double by Eric Herz, 1992, a "Mersenne" continuo
instrument by Martin, 1997, a Bennnett-Giuttari continuo organ, 2004,
a Mander 4 stop positiv organ and an unfretted clavichord by John Challis,
1939.
HCH Concerts
We also presented a standing room only series of free concerts right in
our exhibition room, featuring some of the finest players involved in
early music today:
Duo d'amore (Geoffrey Burgess, baroque oboe and baroque oboe d'amore; Elaine Funaro, harpsichord) A harmonious marriage of opposites... The modern-ness of Baroque instruments in works specially written for Duo d'amore by composers from around the globe.
Duo d'amore
Henry Lebedinsky, keyboards and Michael Albert, countertenor, Baroque violin & Baroque Oboe. A Musical tour of Germany, Italy and Poland.
Arthur Haas,
"Dancing over Borders: The Dance Suite across Europe in the Baroque era"
.
Arthur Haas
La Donna Musicale (Lydia H. Knutson & Sherezade Panthaki, sopranos; & Aaron Sheehan, tenor; Laura Gulley & Jennifer Schiller, violins; Na'ama Lion, flute; Noriko Yasuda & Ruth McKay, harpsichord & organ; Laury Gutiêrrez, viola da gamba). La Donna Musicale will perform excerpts from The Seven Psalms of David by Antonia Bembo. Their CD was just awarded 5 stars by the European magazine Goldberg.
La Donna Musicale
Scenes from our room at BEMF 2005
Arthur Haas in recital.
Henry Lebedinsky and Michael Albert rehearsing.
La Donna Musicale and audience.
Isabelle got a psaltery!
Don Angle was one of many who stopped by to play.
Henry St. Louis trying out the Mander organ.
Charlotte Kaufmann with her spectacular Dowd double.
Our books, tuners and slide show on the Mac.
