Colin Tilney’s passing is a great loss to the harpsichord and Early Music Community. A student of Gustav Leonhardt, Tilney was an influential researcher and contributor to historically-informed performance practice, a beloved instructor by many, and a much-admired performer and recording artist. Obituaries have been posted widely, including in The Telegraph UK, The Globe and […]
Festival Capriccio 2020’s penultimate concert featuring acclaimed French harpsichordist Christophe Rousset garnered a ranking in the Washington Classical Review’s ‘Top Ten Concert” listing for 2024. The French master performed an exquisite program of Baroque works by F. Couperin, Forqueray, and Royer to a packed hall that expressed its appreciation with prolonged calls for encores. https://washingtonclassicalreview.com/2024/12/22/top-ten-performances-of-2024
Capriccio Baroque ran its first Harpsichord Festival in October/November 2024. True to form, Capriccio brought out three of today’s most acclaimed harpsichordist stars for the event. Young superstar Justin Taylor performed in the opening concert playing a program of rich, glorious works from his recent award-winning album ‘Bach in Italy’. The great master Pierre Hantaï […]
Byron Schenkman performed a delightful, joyous program at Capriccio Baroque on January 13, 2024. The center pieces were two of Joseph Haydn’s sparkling, lively keyboard Sonatas. These were complimented by other keyboard Sonatas which were written by composers who were well-regarded in their time, but whose music is little-known today. These works by female composers […]
Anna Kiskachi debuted her new program at Capriccio on November 4, 2023. And what a show it was! Her performance garnered an exceptional review from the Washington Classical Review’s Andrew Lindemann Malone who summed her program up as being ‘unconfined by tradition, thriving on juxtapositions and creativity yet always riveting’. It unfurled over four Tableaux. […]
Renowned harpsichord builder Allan Winkler offers a ‘must do’ course this summer for harpsichordists wanting to learn how to do basic instrument repairs. The class covers voicing and regulation of a double manual harpsichord with three registers, 2×8′, and 1×4′. Topics will include: requilling wood and plastic jacks with Delrin (white acetal plastic) plectra; assembly […]
Colin Booth performed a program of works by J.S. Bach’s mentors, friends and influencers at Capriccio’s July 13, 2023, concert played on an after-Fleischer instrument which he built in 2011. The venue was Live! at 10th and G Streets. Reviewer Andrew Lindemann Malone of the Washington Classical Review described the instrument as a “…feast for […]
Justin Taylor’s ‘Bach in Italy’ performance at Capriccio Baroque on March 18, 2023, led to multiple standing ovations from a highly appreciativ audience and garnered an exceptional review from Charles Downey of the Washington Classical Review. The virtuosic, demanding program included a selection of Italian concerto transcriptions made by Bach and works composed by Bach […]
English/Canadian harpsichordist Colin Tilney’s recording of J.S. Bach’s Partitas was issued in 2020 under the Music and Arts label and is now also available on the main streaming services. These are luxuriant, elegant Partitas which, with their slower tempi, highlight the compelling emotional warmth of these works. This three disk recording is accompanied by erudite, […]
Jean Rondeau’s October 26, 2022, performance of J.S. Bach’s ‘Goldberg Variations’ at Capriccio Baroque is rated a 2022 Top Ten Performance by the Washington Classical Review. Given this young French harpsichordist’s mastery this comes as no surprise. Here’s what the Washington Classical Review has to say about this performance: ‘The best thing about a performance […]
