BCS at Boston
Early Music Festival

Discography

Past Recitals

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

Recordings on the Clavichord

This page is devoted to recorded excerpts from BCS-sponsored events, together with excerpts from recordings of historical significance, no longer commercially available. For other clavichord audio segments, click on links, and explore the web pages of the performers linked to us.

Historical Recordings

Arnold Dolmetsch at the clavichord
J.S. Bach Chromatic Fantasy BWV 903
- Fantasia (1 MB)
- Harpeggiando (920 KB)
- Recitativo (2MB)
Prelude and Fugue #15 in G major, BWV 884, from Book 2 of the Well-Tempered Clavier.
- Prelude (1.4 MB)
- Fugue (1 MB)

Click here for a recording, made in 1954, of Erwin Bodky playing the Aria Sebaldina with variations in F minor (8.01MB) by Johann Pachelbel (1653-1706)
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.

BCS Recitals

Click here for selections from the October 30, 2005 recital of Renée Geoffrion, of works by W.A. Mozart. Sponsored by the Boston Clavichord Society at First Church, Cambridge.