Benjamin Alard - Clavichord Recital at Musée de Provins et du Provinois (France, 29 April, 2021)

Clavichord Recital at Musée de Provins et du Provinois (France, 29 April, 2021) - Benjamin Alard, Clavichord made by Johann Adolf Hass, Hamburg, 1763. (Collection: Musée Instrumental de Provins)

Programme
Johann Caspar Ferdinand Fischer: Prelude VIII and Chaconne in G Major/Sol Majeur.
Dietrich Buxtehude: Praeludium in G minor/Sol mineur BuxWV 163.
Johann Sebastian Bach: Sonate in D minor/Ré mineur BWV 964.
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach: 12 Variations über die Folies d’Espagne H. 263.

Public Première on Thursday, June 10, 2021 at 11:30 am (EDT/UTC-4) | Keyboard Mini Festival Streaming on bemf.org - Boston Early Music Festival.
Video copyright: All rights reserved. Film director: Julien Cadilhac ; Camera operator: Tanguy Alanou, Nicolas Le borgne ; Sound engineer: Alban Moraud ; Tecnical resources: voir(e)même, Alban Moraud Audio, Sevel Ideas.

Clavichord information: Compass: Five octaves FF-f3 chromatic. 8ft bichord throughout with 4ft from FF-B. Brass strung throughout.
Signed on the soundboard: J.A.Haß Hambg, Anno 163
Original decoration consisting of simulated tortoiseshell with gilded Chinese fret ornament border on the lid, the interior decorated with two groups of Chinese musicians in a landscape on a scarlet ground. The key well veneered with olive wood. Recently furnished with an idiomatic stand decorated en-suite and modelled after the stand on the 1767 J.A.Hass clavichord.
Illustrated in: Musical Instruments Historic, Rare and Unique by A. J. Hipkins, Edinburgh 1888 on later unidiomatic stand.
This is a superlative example of the fully developed German bundfrei Clavichord. Made by Johann Adolf Hass, who, like his father Hieronymus Albrecht Hass, is considered among the great masters in the history of keyboard-instrument making. The making of this instrument coincides with the most productive period of Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach’s writing for the clavichord.
The particular interest of this instrument is that it was the first clavichord restored and copied in modern times when it was in the possession of Arnold Dolmetsch. The instrument is inscribed under the soundboard as follows: Restored at “Dowland” West Dulwich November 1894 by {Arnold Dolmetsch and W. Nearn}. Dolmetsch made six clavichords based in part on this model between 1894 and 1897 of which the second was acquired for the Royal College of Music by Sir John Donaldson and remains in the Museum (No. RCM 211).
Musée de Provins et du Provinois: https://www.provins.net/decouvrir-vis...

Discography - J.S. Bach: Complete works for keyboard
Little keyboard book for Wilhelm Friedemann Bach & 6 Preludes for beginners on the keyboard have been recorded on Johann Adolf Hass's Clavichord (Hamburg, 1763). See VOLUME VI | THE WELL-TEMPERED CLAVIER, Book 1 released in March 2022 on harmonia mundi: https://www.benjaminalard.net/discogr...

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