For some 200 years, the harpsichord was king. The Baroque composers J.S. Bach, George Frideric Handel and Domenico Scarlatti all wrote sonatas, suites and solo works for the instrument, a ...

When master keyboard artist Carsten Schmidt plays his second program of Toccatas and French Suites by J.S. Bach, he will introduce a new member of the Staunton musical community, a handmade ...

A rare convergence is coming – a much-loved keyboard work of Bach, "The Goldberg Variations"; a stellar musician, Peter Sykes; an exquisite replica of a German harpsichord by Allen Winkler; and an ...

The Pleyel is the Rolls-Royce of modern European harpsichords, and most twentieth-century German and British harpsichords have a family relationship to it. There are smaller instruments, of course, ...

World-renowned and versatile keyboardist Peter Sykes has come up with a twist on the ubiquitous Bach recital. He will play sonatas and suites in fashionable French or Italian style by Bachs ...

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William Dowd, 86, who revived the 17th-century craft of harpsichord making, building hundreds of historically authentic instruments now used around the world, died of complications from an embolism ...