October 24, 2007
Gratuitous Musickal Posting (TM)
Happy birthday, Malcolm Bilson! Born this day in 1935.
Who he, you ask?
Well, he's a longtime member of the Cornell Musick Department, a trailblazer period performance guy and more or less the dean of the fortepiano.
I consider Bilson's recording of the complete cycle of Mozart's piano concerti with John Eliot Full of Himself Gardiner and the English Baroque Soloists to be the best available, and would heartily recommend them to anybody.
Ooo! I'll have to get that, as I'm in another early "musick" phase, and all of the Mozart piano concerti I have currently are on modern pianos with modern orchestras.
Might I recommend Davitt Moroney's "Le Clavecin Francais"? It's heavily ornamented French Baroque keyboard music, which isn't usually my cup of tea, but he plays it on reproductions of period instruments and uses period pitch standards and cyclical temperaments (I'm such a fan of his, I've corresponded with him via email a little, and asked him about the temperaments). His execution of the difficult ornamentation is so precise that it seems nearly super-human.
Le Clavecin Francais is available on iTunes: Just search for Davitt Moroney.
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