New Clavichord & Harpsichord YouTube Videos

Today I posted three new YouTube videos which I hope you will check out.

The first video includes two excerpts from my clavichord suite Love, Deception, Delusion, & Counterpoint : "Music Box" and "Love Song without Words."

This recording was made at my graduate harpsichord/clavichord recital in April 2019. To quote from the (abridged) recital program notes:

"The title 'Music Box' is a metaphor for a promising relationship that ultimately fails. Just as a music box continues to play its lovely melody as it slows to a stop, so the relationship it represents slowly draws to a close; leaving an almost poignant sense of incompleteness, similar to the lack of a sense of finality due to the incomplete melody played the music box. While the music in this piece occasionally imitates the sound of a music box, the incomplete and interrupted phrases and the long pauses represent someone looking back on a recently-ended relationship and not being sure what to think or how to feel.

'Love Song without Words' is, as the title indicates, a popular-style, love song-like work. It features a tender, wistful melody with a simple accompaniment. The piece was partly inspired by the guitar-like sonorities produced by the clavichord."

The second video includes four frottole settings by Andrea Antico (b ca. 1480; d after 1538). A frottola was a type of popular song in Northern Italy in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.

The third video features the beautiful and haunting Canzona Francese by Ercole Pasquini (b mid-16th century; d ca. 1608 -19). Like the first video, this recording heard in this video is from my April 2019 graduate harpsichord/clavichord recital.