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RECENT ADDITIONS TO OUR STOCK (click on titles for details) Another volume of easy Wolf sonatas: E. W. Wolf, Sechs leichter Claviersonaten, edited by Paul Simmonds and Mike Daniels
W. F. Bach, 12 Polonaises and 8 Fugues, played by Paul Simmonds
Touching the Wall, a DVD of Julia Usher's music played and realized by Andrea Gregori
Clavichord Tuning and Maintenance by Peter Bavington
MUSIC 1. Twentieth- and twenty-first-century clavichord repertoire (ordered alphabetically by composer’s surname)
Van Assendelft’s Vermeer for clavichord, by Gary Carpenter, winner of first prize in the British Clavichord Society Awards for Clavichord Composition 2004, and shortlisted for a 2005 British Composer Award. Signed by the composer£10.00 Diversions for Clavichord (1960) by Haward Clarke (1904-1998) £10.00 Ten Pieces for Clavichord or Piano (1959) by Haward Clarke £10.00 Admiring Yoro Waterfall for clavichord, by Graham Lynch, winner of third prize in the British Clavichord Society Awards for Clavichord Composition, 2004. Signed by the composer £5.00
Petenera by Graham Lynch, four short clavichord pieces of intermediate difficulty, inspired by Lorca £5.00
Variations on a theme of Rossetti/Holst’s ‘In the Bleak Midwinter’ for clavichord, by Byron Mahoney, 2006. Signed by the composer £5.00
Night Thoughts for clavichord, by Peter Nickol, 2004. Signed by the composer £5.00
Pages from Homer for clavichord, by Geoffrey Allan Taylor, winner of fifth prize in the British Clavichord Society Awards for Clavichord Composition, 2004 £10.00
Pages from Homer for clavichord, by Geoffrey Allan Taylor: two-keyboard version (two-part set; p. & p. as for one item) £17.50
2. Earlier repertoire
NEW: Ernst Wilhelm Wolf, Sechs leichter Claviersonaten (Six Simple Sonatas, Weimar, 1786) , edited by Paul Simmonds and Mike Daniels £10.00 Special post and packing charges for the above item only:
£2.00 (UK), £2.80 (Europe), £4.00 (elsewhere, airmail)STILL AVAILABLE: Ernst Wilhelm Wolf, Fortsetzung sechs leichter Klaviersonaten (Six further Simple Keyboard Sonatas, Weimar, 1787) , edited by Paul Simmonds and Mike Daniels £10.00 Special post and packing charges for the above item only:
£2.00 (UK), £2.80 (Europe), £4.00 (elsewhere, airmail)
fitt for the Manicorde, a hitherto unpublished keyboard
collection from the 1680s, edited by Christopher Hogwood, published by Edition HH£22.50 Special post and packing charges for the above item only:
£2.50 (UK), £3.50 (Europe), £6.50 (elsewhere, airmail)J. S. Bach, Two-part Inventions and Four Duets, edited by Sandra Soderlund (Colfax, N.C.: Wayne Leupold Editions) £14.00 Music for Early Clavichord, edited by John Weston £5.00 COMPACT DISCS and DVD
(all played on the clavichord unless otherwise stated; ordered alphabetically by performer’s surname)Derek Adlam, Haydn: Acht Sauschneider müssen sein (2003) £12.00 Contents: Capriccio in G major on Acht Sauschneider müssen sein, Hob. XVII.1; Sonatas: in B minor, Hob. XVI.32, in D major, Hob. XVI.24, and in F major, Hob. XVI.29; Variations in D major, Hob. XVII.7, and in F minor (Un piccolo Divertimento), Hob. XVII.6 Derek Adlam, J. S. Bach, Masterworks for Clavichord (2001) £12.00 Contents: Toccata in G major (BWV 916); Capriccio sopra la lontananza de il fratro dilettissimo (BWV 992); Prelude, Fugue & Allegro in E flat major for Lautenwerk (BWV 998); Suite in E minor for Lautenwerk (BWV 996); Fantasia & Fugue in A minor (BWV 904); Prelude & Fughetta in E minor (BWV 900); Prelude & Fugue in B minor on a theme by Albinoni (BWV 923 and 951); Prelude & Fughetta in G major (BWV 902) C. P. E. Bach Sonatas for keyboard and violin (2003; Atma ACD2 2313), played by Adrian Butterfield (violin) and Laurence Cummings (clavichord* or harpsichord)
£12.00Contents: Arioso in A major, H. 535 (1781)*; Sonatas in D major, H. 502 (1731), C minor, H. 514 (1763), and B flat major, H. 513 (1763) Thurston Dart, The Clavichord Collection vol. 1 (1958/1961; reissued 1998). J. S. Bach French Suites and pieces by Purcell
£10.00Thurston Dart, The Clavichord Collection vol. 2 (1954/1961; reissued 1998). Froberger; early English pieces
£10.00Menno van Delft, Johann Gottfried Müthel: III Sonates et II Ariosi avec XII Variations pour le Clavessin, recorded in Edinburgh on the Russell Collection‘s Hass clavichord. Teknon, TK 12-252. Two-CD set (post and packing as for one CD) £15.00 Péter Ella, Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck, 1562-1621: Toccatas, Fantasies, Variations. (2001)
£12.00NEW: a clavichord DVD Touching the wall, a synchronized sequence of images and sounds based on Julia Usher’s Clavicle, performed by Andrea Gregori £13.00 Clavicle, A Touch Piece for Clavichord by Julia Usher won a British Clavichord Society Composition Award in 2004 and was premiered by Micaela Schmitz. This DVD version has been created and realized by Andrea Gregori, who has synchronized his performance of the music with graphic images based on photographs from the walls of Berlin. Christopher Hogwood, The Secret Bach - works for clavichord, played on clavichords by Hass, Bodechtel and Schmahl
£12.00Contents: Chromatic Fantasia and Fugue (‘Rust’ version, BWV 903a); Adagio in G major (BWV 968); Fugue in G minor (after BWV 1000); From the Clavier-Büchlein für Wilhelm Friedemann Bach: Allemande in G minor (BWV 836), Menuet 1 (BWV 841), Menuet 3 (BWV 843); Partite diverse sopra il Corale O Gott, du frommer Gott (BWV 767); Partita in A minor (after BWV 1004, arr. Mortensen) Paul Simmonds, Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, 12 Polonaises and 8 Fugues (Falck 12 and Falck 31), played on an unfretted clavichord by Pehr Lindholm, 1780
£10.00Paul Simmonds, Pour ung Plaisir: Renaissance keyboard music on the clavichord (2004)
£12.00Contents: Works by Binchois, Buchner, Brumel, Hofhaimer, Sweelinck (the Fantasia chromatica), Crecquillon/Gabrieli, Merulo, Philip ap Rhys, John Redford, Peter Philips and anon. Paul Simmonds, German Music for Clavichord (1995) £12.00 Contents: Works by Kuhnau, Müthel, W. F. Bach, Türk etc. Paul Simmonds, Ernst Wilhelm Wolf: Keyboard Sonatas (1997) £12.00 William Croft, Complete Harpsichord Works played on harpsichord, spinet and virginal by Julian Rhodes (1999). Two volumes: £18 for the set, or per volume: £10.00 PUBLICATIONS
Clavichord Tuning and Maintenance by Peter Bavington
£17.00Special post and packing charges for the above item only:
£3.00 (UK), £4.00 (Europe), £7.00 (elsewhere, airmail)Hanns Neupert, The Clavichord: a classic short introduction £5.00 De Clavicordio VII: Proceedings of the VII International Clavichord Symposium, Magnano, 7-10 September 2005, edited by Bernard Brauchli, Alberto Galazzo and Judith Wardman
£32.50Special post and packing charges for the above item only:
£5.50 (UK), £7.00(Europe), £12.00(elsewhere, airmail)De Clavicordio VI: Proceedings of the VI International Clavichord Symposium, Magnano, 10-13 September 2003, edited by Bernard Brauchli, Alberto Galazzo and Ivan Moody
£30.00Special post and packing charges for the above item only:
£3.50 (UK), £4.50 (Europe), £8.00 (elsewhere, airmail)BCS Newsletter Nos. 1-39 (1995-2007): per copy £1.20 BCS Newsletter No. 40 (February 2008): per copy £5.00 Please ask us to quote you for post and packing if you are planning to order more than three copies of the BCS Newsletter BCS Newsletter Nos. 1-39 (1995-2007): complete set £45.00 Post and packing £9 (UK); £10 (Europe); £15 (elsewhere, airmail) For a list of the contents of all Newsletters up to date, click here; for an index to book, CD and music reviews in all Newsletters to date, click here. N.B. The following issues of the BCS Newsletter contain articles by Peter Bavington which make up a graded practical introduction to clavichord tuning and maintenance: BCSN3 (October 1995), BCSN4 (February 1996), BCSN5 (June 1996), BCSN6 (October 1996), BCSN7 (February 1997), BCSN8 (June 1997), BCSN10 (February 1998), BCSN11 (June 1998), BCSN12 (October 1998), BCSN14 (June 1999), BCSN16 (February 2000), BCSN18 (October 2000) and BCSN20 (June 2001). Clavichord International: per copy £6.50 We can supply most earlier issues (please contact us for availability). Click here for the full contents list POSTAGE AND PACKING
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