Organ recitals this semester bring you the multifaceted music of the Northern European baroque, balancing the splendid with the learned, the glittering with the melancholic. The semester’s piano events, meanwhile, explore works by Haydn, Bach, Brahms, Beethoven, Chopin, and more, on several of the Center’s distinctive array of instruments.
Elizaveta Zabelina ’24’s project demonstrates how instruments, performance and research intersect at the Cornell Center for Historical Keyboards. “Both the act of performing and doing technical work inside the mechanism involve a developing relationship between the human and the instrument,” Zabelina said. “I’m observing and participating in the relationship between material and immaterial.”
Miriam Fried, Clancy Newman, and Miri Yampolsky present Brahms’s Piano Trio in B major, Op. 8 (revised version, 1889) Allegro con brio Scherzo: Allegro molto… Read More »Miriam Fried, Clancy Newman, and Miri Yampolsky present Brahms’s Piano Trio in B major, Op. 8 (revised version, 1889)
The Cornell Center for Historical Keyboards is delighted to announce the arrival of Conrad Graf Opus 502 (ca. 1823-24) into our collection. The piano is the generous gift of Nancy Garrett, Professor Emeritus of Piano at the Butler School of Music, University of Texas at Austin (who is also the benefactor of our 1799 Broadwood).
Jen Yi (violin, Operations Research & Information Engineering ’22) reflects on her participation in chamber music last fall and this semester with Madeline McCanne (piano, Chemistry ’21).
Great Artist, Great Teacher: Annette Richards plays music by Sweelinck and his students, including Schildt, Scheidemann, and Bruhns Heinrich Scheidemann (c. 1595-1663): Toccata in G… Read More »Great Artist, Great Teacher: Annette Richards Plays Music by Sweelinck and His Students
Brahms: Piano Trio in B major, Op. 8 (original version, 1854) Allegro con moto Scherzo: Allegro molto Adagio non troppo Finale: Allegro molto agitato Rebecca… Read More »Brahms’s Op. 8 Trio (original version, 1854) with Rebecca Anderson, John Haines-Eitzen, and Roger Moseley
Late Beethoven and C. P. E. Bach, Part III Annette Richards in Conversation with Mike Cheng-Yu Lee The third and final program to explore Carl… Read More »Late Beethoven and C. P. E. Bach, Part III: Annette Richards in Conversation with Mike Cheng-Yu Lee
The Woods so Wild: Annette Richards Plays Works by Byrd, Frescobaldi, and Sweelinck Girolamo Frescobaldi (1583-1643): Capriccio sopra “Il Cucho” (1624) Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck (1562-1621):… Read More »The Woods so Wild: Annette Richards Plays Works by Byrd, Frescobaldi, and Sweelinck
Mike Cheng-Yu Lee Plays Beethoven’s Sonata in F minor, Op. 57 (“Appassionata”), on 1799 Broadwood https://www.youtube.com/embed/vUJ-q6Vf0rw 1799 Broadwood (gift of Nancy Garrett) In the minds… Read More »Mike Cheng-Yu Lee Plays Beethoven’s Sonata in F Minor, Op. 57 (Appassionata), on 1799 Broadwood