Harpsichord0924 FINAL

Hommage à Wanda Landowska – Kenneth Weiss
A Treasury of Harpsichord Music
https://crescendomusic.org/athome/

Recorded:
September 14, 2024

United Methodist Church,
Lakeville, CT

Performer:
Kenneth Weiss, harpsichord
This concert is partially underwritten by Leszek Wojcik.

Program
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Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1759)
Prelude, Fugue and Allegro in E-Flat major, BWV 998
Fantasia in C minor, BWV 906

Domenico Scarlatti (1865-1757)
Sonata K.87
Sonata K.96

Jacques Champion de Chambonnières (1602?-1672)
Sarabande in D minor

Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683-1764)
La Dauphine

François Couperin Le Grand (1668-1733)
Les Barricades Mystérieuses
L’Arlequine

Henry Purcell (1658-1695)
Ground in C minor

Anonymous from the Virginal Book of Elizabeth Rogers
The Nightingale

George Frederick Handel (1685-1759)
Air and Doubles in E major “The Harmonious Blacksmith”

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Rondo in D major K.485
Rondo alla Turca
Menuet in D major K.355

Johann Sebastian Bach / Antonio Vivaldi
Concerto in D major
Larghetto, Allegro

Learn More About the Performer
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Harpsichordist Kenneth Weiss was born in New York City where he attended the High School of Performing Arts. After studying with Lisa Goode Crawford at the Oberlin Conservatory he continued with Gustav Leonhardt at the Sweelinck Conservatorium in Amsterdam.

From 1990-1993 he was Musical Assistant to William Christie at Les Arts Florissants for numerous opera productions and recordings. He later conducted Les Arts Florissants in ‘Doux Mensonges’ by the choreographer Jiri Kylian at the Paris Opera, and was co-director with William Christie of the first three editions of Les Arts Florissants’ ‘Jardin de Voix’ program.

Kenneth Weiss focuses on recitals, chamber music, teaching and conducting. His most recent recitals include Nuremburg, Montpellier, Barcelona, Dijon, Geneva, Antwerp, the Cite de la musique and Théâtre des Abbesses in Paris, Théâtre de Caen, Madrid, La Roque d’Anthéron, Santander, Lisbon, San Sebastian, Innsbruck, Santiago de Compostela, La Chaise-Dieu, La Chaud de Fonds, Bruges and New York, Nishinomiya, Kugenuma and Tokyo.

Kenneth is a regular performer with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. He also performs in the Berkshire Bach Ensemble’s ‘Bach at New Year’s’ concerts with Eugene Drucker, and the summer Bridgehampton Chamber Music Festival. In 2024 Kenneth makes his début appearance at the prestigious Music@Menlo chamber music festival in San Francisco. He performs in recital with the violinists Fabio Biondi, Daniel Hope, Monica Huggett and Lina Tur Bonet, the cellist Marc Coppey and mandolinist Avi Avital.

In collaboration with the choreographer Trisha Brown, Kenneth Weiss was musical director of ‘M.O.’, a ballet on Bach’s Musical Offering, first performed at La Monnaie in Brussels. He was also musical director of the Aix-en-Provence European Music Academy’s staged productions of Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas and a Monteverdi madrigal program. Both productions were revived at the Lille, Monte-Carlo and Bordeaux operas. He has conducted staged performances of Mozart’s Mariage of Figaro at the Cité de la musique in Paris and Monteverdi’s L’incoronazione di Poppea in Bilbao and Oviedo. He has also conducted The English Concert, Concerto Copenhagen, Orquesta de Salamanca, Divino Sospiro, Orchestre de Rouen, the Orchestre régional de Basse-Normandie, Orchestre National des Pays de Loire, the Orchestre des Pays de Savoie and the Orchestre d’Auvergne.

In 2023 he performed Bach’s Art of Fugue in Berkeley, the festivals of Saint-Savin, Laon (Bach / Leipzig 1723 – 2023 series), Santiago de Compostela, Aranjuez and in the Théâtre du Musée Grévin, Paris. Highlights of the 2023-24 season include performances with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Berkshire Bach Society, Bridgehampton Chamber Music Festival, North County Chamber Players, Music@Menlo, and recitals of Bach’s Art of Fugue in Jerusalem, the Saintes Festival in France and the Santander Festival in Spain. He also conducts Orchestre National Avignon-Provence with the Brandenburg concertos. The 2024-25 season sees the release of a new Bach Trio Sonata transcriptions recording with flutist Sooyun Kim, a return to Lincoln Center with the Brandenburg concertos, a tour of Australia with violinist Lina Tur Bonet, an Art of Fugue recital at the Palau de la Música in Barcelona and the debut of a new recital program “A Handful of Keys”, celebrating keyboard ingenuity and innovations with works spanning the Baroque Sonata to Ragtime.

Kenneth Weiss has held teaching positions at the Norwegian Academy of Music in Oslo, the Juilliard School in New York and the Geneva Haute école de musique. He currently teaches at the Paris Conservatory and where he is professor of chamber music.