Plectra Music presents Cantates Françoises, volume 1, with Laura Heimes, Julianne Baird and Curtis Streetment performing cantatas by Elizabeth de La Guerre and Louis-Nicolas Clérambault. This recording features three cantatas that represent the full range of subject matter for the genre.
Elisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre’s Jephté is a sacred cantata, based on a biblical story, while Louis-Nicolas Clérambault’s L’Amour et Bacchus is a secular work based on Classical figures. The occasional cantata is represented by Clérambault’s Le Triomphe de la Paix, a work written in celebration of the Treaty of Utrecht in 1713. This recording also features de La Guerre’s Chaconne for harpsichord, performed by Karen Flint, an Rameau’s Rossignols amoureux sung by Ms. Baird
NEW RELEASE! May 22nd 2009
Plectra Music is pleased announce the release of The Complete Concerti of J. S. Bach for Solo and Multiple Harpsichords. Recorded in May 2007 at The Barn at Flintwoods during the Bach in the Barn concerts, this three disc set features performances by Davitt Moroney, Arthur Haas, Karen Flint JungHae Kim and Adam Pearl on antique instruments from the Flint Collection. With Carla Moore, concert master; Martin Davids, violin; Amy Leonard, viola; Douglas McNames, cell; and Anne Peterson, bass
Artist Spotlight- Davitt Moroney
Davitt Moroney was born in England in 1950. He studied organ, clavichord, and harpsichord with Susi Jeans, Kenneth Gilbert and Gustav Leonhardt. For over twenty years he was based in Paris, working primarily as a freelance recitalist in many countries. In 2001 he moved to California, as a faculty member at the University of California, Berkeley, where he is Professor of Music and University Organist. He has recently given organ and harpsichord masterclasses at the Paris Conservatoire, the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatoire, the Juilliard School in New York, and Oberlin Conservatory, as well as in South Korea, Finland, Belgium, and Switzerland. Other recent concerts have included recitals in Germany, Holland, Italy, England, and Scotland. He is regularly invited as a jury member for international organ and harpsichord competitions.
Davitt Moroney interviewed by BBC3
His many scholarly editions of harpsichord music include Bach’s Art of Fugue with his own completion of the final unfinished fugue (Henle, 1989), the complete harpsichord works of Louis Couperin (1985) and of Louis Marchand (1987), as well as of Purcell’s recently discovered collection of pieces, now known as the “Purcell Manuscript” (1999). His monograph Bach, An Extraordinary Life — a short introduction to the composer’s life and works — was published by ABRSM Publishing in 2000 and has since been translated into French, Portuguese, Italian, Polish and Romanian.
Davitt Moroney was born in England in 1950. He studied organ, clavichord, and harpsichord with Susi Jeans, Kenneth Gilbert and Gustav Leonhardt. For over twenty years he was based in Paris, working primarily as a freelance recitalist in many countries. In 2001 he moved to California, as a faculty member at the University of California, Berkeley, where he is Professor of Music and University Organist. He has recently given organ and harpsichord masterclasses at the Paris Conservatoire, the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatoire, the Juilliard School in New York, and Oberlin Conservatory, as well as in South Korea, Finland, Belgium, and Switzerland. Other recent concerts have included recitals in Germany, Holland, Italy, England, and Scotland. He is regularly invited as a jury member for international organ and harpsichord competitions.