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Announcement | Japan Clavier Society

Japan Clavier Society

It is a great pleasure to announce that after six years of silence the former Japan Clavichord Society gave birth to its new incarnation, the Japan Clavier Society, on the 1st of June, 2013.

The Japan Clavier Society aims to promote productive communication among keyboard performers, builders, composers, and music lovers appreciate the importance of the clavichord throughout the course of music history. Through their activities, they hope to enrich and empower the music scene of the 21st century.

The JCS utilizes the internet as the common tool for communication among registered members. There is no fee to join the society but each member must register with his or her own name. The number of members as of October 9th is 75.

Depending on response and interest, the JCS is considering the inclusion of live concerts.

The founding coordinators of the Japan Clavier Society include Yuichi Sato, Toshihiko Umeoka, Yasushi Takahashi and Tomoko A. Miyamoto. Yuichi builds harpsichords and fortepianos, Toshihiko owns a company that handles maintenance-related matters for keyboard instruments, and Yasushi has a clavichord-building workshop. Tomoko is an organist and clavichord performer and will represent the society for the initial period.

At the moment, the JSC site is in Japanese, but they welcome messages in English. Please forward them to:
clavichord.organ@gmail.com, c/o Tomoko A. Miyamoto.

Audio | BCS Recitals ~ Haiku Player

BCS Recitals

Ulrika Davidsson | 20 September, 2009

• Sonata in C Major, Hob. VI:48
— Franz Joseph Haydn

[haiku url=”http://www.bostonclavichord.org/wp-content/themes/twentytwelve-bcs/audio/davidsson_haydn_1.mp3″ ogg=”http://www.bostonclavichord.org/wp-content/themes/twentytwelve-bcs/audio/davidsson_haydn_1.ogg” title=”Haydn Sonata”] Andante con espressione
[haiku url=”http://www.bostonclavichord.org/wp-content/themes/twentytwelve-bcs/audio/davidsson_haydn_2.mp3″ ogg=”http://www.bostonclavichord.org/wp-content/themes/twentytwelve-bcs/audio/davidsson_haydn_2.ogg” title=”Haydn Sonata”] Rondo (presto)

David Schulenberg | 19 April, 2009

• Württemberg Sonata No. 1 in A minor, Wq. 49/1
— C.P.E. Bach

[haiku url=”http://www.bostonclavichord.org/wp-content/themes/twentytwelve-bcs/audio/schulenberg_wurttemberg_1.mp3″ ogg=”http://www.bostonclavichord.org/wp-content/themes/twentytwelve-bcs/audio/schulenberg_wurttemberg_1.ogg” title=”C.P.E. Bach Wurttemberg”] Moderato
[haiku url=”http://www.bostonclavichord.org/wp-content/themes/twentytwelve-bcs/audio/schulenberg_wurttemberg_2.mp3″ ogg=”http://www.bostonclavichord.org/wp-content/themes/twentytwelve-bcs/audio/schulenberg_wurttemberg_2.ogg” title=”C.P.E. Bach Wurttemberg”] Andante
[haiku url=”http://www.bostonclavichord.org/wp-content/themes/twentytwelve-bcs/audio/schulenberg_wurttemberg_3.mp3″ ogg=”http://www.bostonclavichord.org/wp-content/themes/twentytwelve-bcs/audio/schulenberg_wurttemberg_3.ogg” title=”C.P.E. Bach Wurttemberg”] Allegro assai

David Breitman | 16 September, 2007

• Sonata in B-flat Major, Hob. XVI:2
— Franz Joseph Haydn

[haiku url=”http://www.bostonclavichord.org/wp-content/themes/twentytwelve-bcs/audio/breitman_haydn.mp3″ ogg=”http://www.bostonclavichord.org/wp-content/themes/twentytwelve-bcs/audio/breitman_haydn.ogg” title=”Haydn Sonata”]Moderato, Largo, Menuet & Trio

Renée Geoffrion | 30 October, 2005

• Selections of works by W.A. Mozart
Sponsored by the Boston Clavichord Society
First Church, Cambridge

[haiku url=”http://www.bostonclavichord.org/wp-content/themes/twentytwelve-bcs/audio/geoffrion_mozart_k397″ ogg=”http://www.bostonclavichord.org/wp-content/themes/twentytwelve-bcs/audio/geoffrion_mozart_k397.ogg” title=”Mozart K397″]K. 397
[haiku url=”http://www.bostonclavichord.org/wp-content/themes/twentytwelve-bcs/audio/geoffrion_mozart_k624″ ogg=”http://www.bostonclavichord.org/wp-content/themes/twentytwelve-bcs/audio/geoffrion_mozart_k624.ogg” title=”Mozart K624″]K. 624

David Schulenberg (clavichord) and
Mary Oleskiewicz (baroque flute) | 24 October, 2004

• Excerpts from a recital featuring works
by C.P.E. Bach, W.F. Bach, and
J.S. Bach (attributed)

[haiku url=”http://www.bostonclavichord.org/wp-content/themes/twentytwelve-bcs/audio/schulenberg_fantasia_allegro_cpebach” ogg=”http://www.bostonclavichord.org/wp-content/themes/twentytwelve-bcs/audio/schulenberg_fantasia_allegro_cpebach.ogg” title=”CPE Bach Fantasia”]C.P.E. Bach Fantasia – Allegro
[haiku url=”http://www.bostonclavichord.org/wp-content/themes/twentytwelve-bcs/audio/schulenberg_fantasia_largo_cpebach” ogg=”http://www.bostonclavichord.org/wp-content/themes/twentytwelve-bcs/audio/schulenberg_fantasia_largo_cpebach.ogg” title=”CPE Bach Fantasia”]C.P.E. Bach Fantasia – Largo

Audio | Historical Recordings ~ Haiku Player

Historical Recordings

Arnold Dolmetsch, 1931
Photo by Herbert Lambert, Bath, England, courtesy of Teri Noel Towe

Arnold Dolmetsch at the clavichord

• Chromatic Fantasy, BWV 903 — J.S. Bach

[haiku url=”http://www.bostonclavichord.org/wp-content/themes/twentytwelve-bcs/audio/bwv903_fantasia” ogg=”http://www.bostonclavichord.org/wp-content/themes/twentytwelve-bcs/audio/bwv903_fantasia.ogg” title=”Bach Chromatic Fantasy”] Andante con espressione
[haiku url=”http://www.bostonclavichord.org/wp-content/themes/twentytwelve-bcs/audio/bwv903_harpeggiando” ogg=”http://www.bostonclavichord.org/wp-content/themes/twentytwelve-bcs/audio/bwv903_harpeggiando.ogg” title=”Bach Chromatic Fantasy”] Harpeggiando
[haiku url=”http://www.bostonclavichord.org/wp-content/themes/twentytwelve-bcs/audio/bwv903_recitativo” ogg=”http://www.bostonclavichord.org/wp-content/themes/twentytwelve-bcs/audio/bwv903_recitativo.ogg” title=”Bach Chromatic Fantasy”] Recitativo

• Prelude and Fugue No. 15 in G Major, BWV 884,
from Book II of the Well-Tempered Clavier
— J.S. Bach

[haiku url=”http://www.bostonclavichord.org/wp-content/themes/twentytwelve-bcs/audio/wtc2_15_prelude” ogg=”http://www.bostonclavichord.org/wp-content/themes/twentytwelve-bcs/audio/wtc2_15_prelude.ogg” title=”Bach WTC II 15″] Prelude
[haiku url=”http://www.bostonclavichord.org/wp-content/themes/twentytwelve-bcs/audio/wtc2_15_fugue” ogg=”http://www.bostonclavichord.org/wp-content/themes/twentytwelve-bcs/audio/wtc2_15_fugue” title=”Bach WTC II 15″] Fugue

Erwin Bodky | 1954

• Aria Sebaldina with variations in F minor — Johann Pachelbel

[haiku url=”http://www.bostonclavichord.org/wp-content/themes/twentytwelve-bcs/audio/bodky_pachelbel_aria_sebald” ogg=”http://www.bostonclavichord.org/wp-content/themes/twentytwelve-bcs/audio/bodky_pachelbel_aria_sebald.ogg” title=”Pachelbel Aria”]

Erwin Bodky (1896-1958) began his career in Europe. He emigrated to the United States before World War II and settled in the Boston area, where he was active performing and promoting early music. He was a professor of music at Brandeis University and was the founder of the Cambridge Society for Early Music. This recording was made on a clavichord built by Karl Maendler of Munich, which Bodky brought with him when he came to the U.S.

József Gát

• Fantasia No. 2 in C Major, Wq. 59/6 — C.P.E. Bach

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• Sonata in B-flat Major, Wq. 59/3 — C.P.E. Bach

[haiku url=”http://www.bostonclavichord.org/wp-content/themes/twentytwelve-bcs/audio/gat_sonata_1_cpebach” ogg=”http://www.bostonclavichord.org/wp-content/themes/twentytwelve-bcs/audio/gat_sonata_1_cpebach.ogg” title=”CPE Bach Sonata”] Allegro un poco
[haiku url=”http://www.bostonclavichord.org/wp-content/themes/twentytwelve-bcs/audio/gat_sonata_2_cpebach” ogg=”http://www.bostonclavichord.org/wp-content/themes/twentytwelve-bcs/audio/gat_sonata_2_cpebach.ogg” title=”CPE Bach Sonata”] Largo
[haiku url=”http://www.bostonclavichord.org/wp-content/themes/twentytwelve-bcs/audio/gat_sonata_3_cpebach” ogg=”http://www.bostonclavichord.org/wp-content/themes/twentytwelve-bcs/audio/gat_sonata_3_cpebach.ogg” title=”CPE Bach Sonata”] Gracioso

József Gát was born into a Jewish family in Hungary in 1913. He studied at the Academy of Music in Budapest in the 1930s. Among his teachers were Béla Bartók and Zoltán Kodály. He earned credentials in both composition and music teaching. In 1938 he received his final degree. By the time he graduated, Jewish legislation was in place that made it impossible for him to find suitable work. During World War II he went into hiding. Some 34 members of his extended family, including his parents and his first wife, died in concentration camps during World War II. After the war Gát taught the piano. In 1949 he was offered a position at the Academy of Music, by then renamed the Ferenc Liszt Academy of Music. (This is the same academy where Miklós Spányi studied in the 1980s.) In 1954 Gát published a book on piano playing that was later translated into four languages. In the 1950s he became interested in early instruments and was given a harpsichord and clavichords by the Neupert and Ammer firms. As a result he was able to introduce these instruments into Hungarian teaching and musical life. He died of a heart attack in 1967 at the age of 54. The tracks that are posted here come from a Qualiton long-playing record of works in the Kenner & Liebhaber series by C.P.E. Bach. [Thanks to Eszter Fontana, daughter of József Gát, for much of this information.]

Past Recitals ~ homemade table

Past Recitals

May 3, 2013	Gregory Crowell	Gore Place Waltham, MA	Music of Gottlieb & Georg Muffat, Frescobaldi, Sweelinck, J.S. & J.C. Bach
January 27, 2013	Christa Rakich	Brandeis University Waltham, MA	Music of Martinez, Park, J.S. & J.C. Bach
November 11, 2012	Peter Sykes	First Lutheran Church of Boston	Music of J.S. Bach
April 29, 2012	Ulrika Davidsson	Gore Place Waltham, MA	Music of J.S. Bach
November 13, 2011	Andrus Madsen	Gore Place Waltham, MA	Music of Madsen, Telemann, C.P.E. Bach
September 25, 2011	Luc Beauséjour	Gore Place Waltham, MA	Music of Sweelinck, Froberger, Purcell, Fischer, Kuhnau, J.S. Bach
March 13, 2011	Carol lei Breckenridge	First Church, Cambridge	Music of C.P.E. Bach
November 5, 2010	Mark Kroll	Gore Place Waltham, MA	Music of Pachelbel, Kuhnau, Pasquini, J.S. Bach, Balbastre, F.J. Haydn
September 12, 2010	Sylvia Berry	Gore Place Waltham, MA	Music of Sweelinck, Correa de Arauxo, Froberger, Picchi, Frecobaldi, Kerll, Couperin, Sweelinck
June 6, 2010	Michael Tsalka	Private venue	Music of Rameau, Kull, J.S. Bach, Türk, Dodgson, Sweelinck, Mozart
April 11, 2010	Ursula Dütschler	First Church, Cambridge	Music of J.S. Bach, W.F. Bach, J.C.F. Bach, J.C. Bach
November 20, 2009	Els Biesemans	Gore Place Waltham, MA	Music of J.S. Bach, C.P.E. Bach, Mozart, Clementi, Beethoven
September 20, 2009	Ulrika Davidsson	First Church, Cambridge, MA	Music of F.J. Haydn
June 12, 2009	Maximilian Fleischman	First Church, Cambridge, MA	Music of Beethoven, F.J. Haydn, D. Scarlatti, C.P.E. Bach, J.S. Bach
April 19, 2009	David Schulenberg & Mary Oleskiewicz	First Church, Cambridge, MA	Music of King Frederick II of Prussia, W.F. Bach, Quantz, C.P.E. Bach
January 11, 2009	Henry Lebedinsky	First Church, Cambridge, MA	Music of Oginski, Vorisek, Stepanovich, Kuchar, Stepan
October 26, 2008	Renée Geoffrion	First Church, Cambridge, MA	Music of Buxtehude, Mozart, Bartok, Rivet, F.J. Haydn, C.P.E. Bach
April 3-7, 2008	Menno van Delft & Marten Root	Various venue and times	Music of W.F. Bach, C.P.E. Bach, Scheibe, Rolle
October 28, 2007	Christa Rakich	First Church, Cambridge, MA	Music of J.S. Bach, Clementi, F.J. Haydn, Spindler, Mozart
September 16, 2007	David Breitman	Gore Place Waltham, MA	Music of F.J. Haydn, Kuhnau, J.S. Bach, C.P.E. Bach
June 13, 2007	Margaret Irwin-Brandon	First Church in Boston, MA	Music of J.E. Bach, C.P.E. Bach, J.C.F. Bach, Fasch
June 13, 2007	Peter Sykes	First Church in Boston, MA	Music of Buxtehude, J.S. Bach
March 8-12, 2007	David Yearsley with Peter Sykes	Five venues in the Boston area	Music of J.S. Bach, C.P.E. Bach, Müthel
October 22, 2006	Susan Alexander-Max	Gore Place Waltham, MA	Music of J.S. Bach, Zipoli, Schulz, Mozart, C.P.E. Bach, F.J. Haydn
May 21, 2006	Bruce Glenny	Gore Place Waltham, MA	Music of W.F. Bach, C.P.E Bach, J.S. Bach, Howells
March 12, 2006	Gregory Crowell	Friends Meeting House Cambridge, MA	Music of Händel, J.S. Bach, Benda, Lynch, C.P.E. Bach, F.J. Haydn
December 4, 2005	Andrus Madsen	Friends Meeting House Cambridge, MA	Music of Madsen, Buxtehude, Froberger, Wechmann, Böhm
October 30, 2005	Renée Geoffrion	First Church, Cambridge, MA	Music of W.F. Bach, C.P.E. Bach, Tarrega, Rivet, F.J. Haydn, Mozart
September 10, 2005	Maximilian Fleischman & Peter Sykes	House concert Medfield, MA	Music of Mozart, C.P.E. Bach, Benda, J.S. Bach, Forget, W.F. Bach, Mozart
June 17, 2005	Sally Fortino & Laura Marsall; David Schulenbeg & Mary Oleskiewicz	Goethe Institut Boston, MA	Music of attr. J.S. Bach, C.P.E. Bach, W.F. Bach
June 15, 2005	Sally Fortino	First & Second Church Boston, MA	Music of Telemann, Wolf, Krieger, Marpurg, Pachelbel, Türk, Händel, F.J. Haydn, J.S. Bach, Neefe
April 17, 2005	Henry Lebedinsky & Roy Sansom	Friends Meeting House Cambridge, MA	Music of C.H. Graun, J.E. Bach, C.P.E. Bach, attr. J.G. Graun, J.S. Bach
March 20, 2005	Margaret Irwin-Brandon & Peter Sykes	House concert Newton, MA	Music of Mozart, Blasco de Nebra, Platti, Broege, F.J. Haydn, Mozart
October 24, 2004	David Schulenberg & Mary Oleskiewicz	First Church, Cambridge, MA	Music of J.S. Bach, C.P.E. Bach, W.F. Bach
September 12, 2004	Audley Green	Eustis House Roxbury, MA	Music of Buxtehude, Fischer, J.S. Bach, J. Johnson, B. Beach, Penicka
April 18, 2004	Sally Fortino	Brandeis University Waltham, MA	Music of F.J. Haydn
March 7, 2004	Margaret Irwin-Brandon with Peter Sykes	First Church, Cambridge, MA	Music of 17th C. anonymous, Cabezon, Coehlo, d’Arauxo, Narváez, Pasquini, A. Scarlatti
November 9, 2003	Gregory Crowell	Brandeis University Waltham, MA	Music of Kerll, Scheidemann, Buxtehude, Fox, J.S. Bach, Ellenberger
September 14, 2003	Maximilian Fleischman	Gore Place Waltham, MA	Music of Benda, F.J. Haydn, C.P.E. Bach
June 11, 2003	Miklos Spanyi	Old South Church Boston, MA	Music of C.P.E. Bach
June 11, 2003	Peter Sykes & Pamela Dellal	Museum of Fine Arts Boston, MA	Music of C.P.E. Bach, F.J. Haydn
April 27, 2003	Henry Lebedinsky	Brandeis University Waltham, MA	Music of Composer, de Santo Elias, D. Scarlatti, Soler, Lebedinsky, Anonymous, Cabo
March 23, 2003	David Schulenberg & Mary Oleskiewicz	House concert Waltham, MA	Music of Quantz, C.P.E. Bach, J.S. Bach, Kleinknecht
November 9, 2002	Peter Sykes & Pamela Dellal	Goethe Institut Boston, MA	Music of C.P.E. Bach
October 6, 2002	Mark Kroll	Eustis House Roxbury, MA	Music of J.S. Bach, C.P.E. Bach, Mozart
April 27, 2002	Sally Fortino	Eustis House Roxbury, MA	Music of Türk
September 23, 2001	Igor Kipnis	Brandeis University Waltham, MA	Music of Böhm, Kuhnau, J.S. Bach, Goldberg, C.P.E. Bach, F.J. Haydn
June 14, 2001	Mikko Korhonen, Peter Sykes & Richard Troeger	Museum of Fine Arts Boston, MA	Music of Korhonen, W.F. Bach, Beethoven, Rust, Müthel
May 5, 2001	Peter Sykes & Adam Rahbee	First Church, Cambridge, MA	?
March 11, 2001	Pekka Vapaavuori	Brandeis University Waltham, MA	Music of Froberger, Kuhnau, J.S. Bach, Agrell, C.P.E. Bach, Lithander, F.J. Haydn
November 12, 2000	Peter Sykes	Taylor House Boston, MA	Music of J.S. Bach, C.P.E. Bach
October 8, 2000	Steve Barrell	Brandeis University Waltham, MA	Music of C.P.E. Bach, W.F. Bach, Wikmanson, Müthel
May 12, 2000	Richard Troeger	Brandeis University Waltham, MA	Music of Fischer, J.S. Bach, F.J. Haydn, J.C.F. Bach, C.P.E. Bach, W.F. Bach, Rust
September 24, 1999	Igor Kipnis	Brandeis University Waltham, MA	Music of Froberger, Pachelbel, Kuhnau, C.P.E. Bach, D. Scarlatti, Mozart, J.S. Bach
April 11, 1999	Joan Benson	Brandeis University Waltham, MA	Music of Froberger, Mozart, C.P.E. Bach, Loeb
February 27, 1999	Mark Kroll	Boston University School for the Arts	Music of J.S. Bach, W.F. Bach, C.P.E. Bach
May 17, 1998	Margaret Irwin-Brandon	House concert in Cambridge, MA	Music of Hassler, Weckmann, Martaro, J.S. Bach, C.P.E. Bach
November 22, 1997	Richard Troeger with Peter Sykes	Friends Meeting House Cambridge, MA	Music of C.P.E. Bach, W.F. Bach, F.J. Haydn, Mozart
May 17, 1997	Peter Sykes	Brandeis University Waltham, MA	Music of C.P.E. Bach, F.J. Haydn, Beethoven, Mozart
October 19, 1996	Paul Simmonds	Mount Holyoke College South Hadley, MA	Music of C.P.E. Bach, Muethel, Wolf, Anonymous, Haessler
April 16, 1996	Richard Troeger	Brandeis University Waltham, MA	Music of Pachelbel, Froberger, Böhm, Facoli, Radino, le Polonais, J.S. Bach, C.P.E. Bach, F.J. Haydn
June 18, 1995	Peter Sykes	French Library & Cultural Center, Boston, MA	Music of J.S. Bach, Mayone, Trabaci, C.P.E. Bach

Bulletin Number | Fall 20

Number 3, Fall 2012

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